Industry coverage, news, original feature articles, how to guides, videos, podcasts and reviews of BlackBerry service providers, software, accessories, hosted exchange providers and more
The announcement that had BlackBerry fans talking yesterday was Slacker, the internet radio application. We’ve discussed Slacker in the past, noting that you can build your own radio station. That’s the greatest part about Internet radio, at least to me. I have a strange taste in music, and it seems that with the spread of digital music a lot more people are hopping on the bandwagon of eclecticism. Slacker looks to satisfy folks like us.
Here’s one great part of Slacker, which is mighty helpful if you’re headed out of a coverage area:
Slacker station caching, an exclusive feature for BlackBerry smartphones, enables mobile listeners to store favorite stations on a memory card, allowing Slacker music service to play without a network connection while boosting battery life up to 5 times that of streaming playback and enhancing application performance.
So it looks like you might be better off caching in any case. If you have the time, that is. From what I’ve read before, you’ll be allowed six skips per hour, which is a decent amount. Certainly better than not being able to skip.
The service is free, and you can get it by visiting Slacker.com from your BlackBerry device. It requires OS 4.3 or higher. It’s definitely on my list of things to do this weekend.
Subscribe to the BBGeeks RSS Feed
Add to De.licio.us | 
Digg This! | 
Technorati
Filed under : BlackBerry Applications 7 Comments
Top Selling BlackBerry Software:
Related Posts:
Turning your BlackBerry radio back onCould BlackBerry be getting more satellite radio?
How to stream Internet radio on your BlackBerry
New XM satellite radio option for BlackBerry
The complete guide to listening to music on your BlackBerry
7 Comments ↓
Good but buggy. It stops playing when I get a call or email chime. When I try to restart play it reboots my 8330.
doesn’t work for Canada yet …
can’t get it to work on Nextel’s 8350i curve loads fine and logs into a wbacnk white scren after acct set up :(
should be “blank white screen”
can’t get it to work on Nextel’s 8350i curve loads fine and logs into a wbacnk white scren after acct set up :(
[...] you’ll get a message that your battery is too low for radio use. No, this doesn’t mean Slacker Internet radio. It means the radio that connects your phone to the cellular network. One thing I’ve noticed, [...]
[...] what seemed like forever, Pandora finally released a BlackBerry client. Of course, we’ve had Slacker Radio for a while, but it’s just not Pandora. Why? Because I’ve been using this thing for a [...]
[...] snuck in and filled the void. They started getting the word out last year, and we finally saw the Slacker BlackBerry application released as the new year turned. It’s based on the same concept as Pandora, though I’m [...]
Leave a Reply