Slacker Radio app now available for iPhone / iPod Touch
Sure you’ve got Pandora, Last.fm and a whole slew of internet radio apps sitting pretty in the App Store but it’s hard to complain about another custom internet radio option for the iPhone and iPod Touch. At this point, Slacker doesn’t quite have the subscriber count of more popular options such as the aforementioned Pandora and Last.fm, but the company definitely has a viable service and the introduction of an iPhone app will no doubt give the Slacker team a nice little boost. Known for its hardware efforts, solid custom stations and website design that must have been done by the Harley Davidson people, Slacker is basically a combination of Last.fm and Pandora – custom stations can be created based on an artist or genre and the service is completely free to use with limitations while a subscription fee will enhance your experience a bit. Last week Slacker announced two new mobile versions of its app and made BlackBerry version available. Now that the iPhone app has been released as well we’re in wait-and-see mode, curious to learn how it will affect Slacker’s numbers. Got an iPhone or iPod Touch? Check out the app and drop us a line in the comments.
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Looks great, too bad it doesn’t work outside of the US.
People still listen to the radio?
Tried it and it crashed immediately. I would try it again but it doesn’t really offer anything pandora doesn’t, so what’s the point?
@Aalen,
Prettier ui.
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love it on the BlackBerry, I wonder if at some point they’ll be able to cache on to the iphone, which to me is killer since on a plane short of what UA flights no data
This app is great. I currently use it on my Blackberry Bold and it works flawlessly. It probably won’t be as good on the iPhone/iPod because the iPhone/iPod can’t mulititask just yet.
Steve you really need to flip that switch already. Update 3.0…?
Just downloaded it and ran on my iPod touch. I like it better than Pandora’s new “genre” based stations. Pandora’s logic is quite a bit more clumsy and it’s library is smaller than Slacker. Now only if Slacker could cache songs “offline” on the iPod like the Slacker device does, it would truly rock. There is probably no way Apple would allow that – they are way too greedy and monopolistic.
I have been using this for 1.5 days now. This app is sweet! The Slacker radio stations are better than any I’ve listened to before (Pandora, LastFM…) and it’s cool that I can personalize my own stations right on the phone.
The app. is sweet, just really needs the ability to cache songs to listen to offline.My BlackBerry Storm will cache songs but the sound quality on the iPod touch is way better.
can slacker radio be downloaded on us celluler samsung phones?