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Internet Radio: Why aren’t you built in?

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 12:31 AM

Listen to radio stations from all over the world on your mobile phone using GPRS, EDGE or 3G UMTS networks. Constantly new stations are being added and make this application the first universal radio player for mobile phones.

Source: My-Symbian

Nokia pushes the N Series as a strong multimedia centric device. Wouldn’t it make sense to include an application that would allow you to listen to online radio stations? More importantly wouldn’t it be nice to already have a list of predefined stations in there from the get go?

I know Nokia is working on their own implementation, but hey: hurry up already!

Personally I stopped stealing music thanks to internet radio. There is just so much good stuff out there to listen to, and honestly a song has to be really special for me to want to listen to it more than a few times.

I’m listening to di.fm’s ambient channel as I’m typing this by the way ;-) With Internet based radio you’re never limited to the number of mp3′s you can fit in the onboard memory on your device, or a separate flash card.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Alessandro

    Ciao Stephan,

    I use the S60 Internet Radio every morning on my commute to work with my N91. I listen live radio from Italy. I just add several links from ShoutCast to the config file of the app.

    Alessandro