Pandora for BlackBerry finally launches

BlackBerry users rejoice, Pandora has finally released v1 of it’s custom internet radio streaming application this morning and long story short, it’s everything we’ve been waiting for. It’s… About… Time! We tested the app out on a Bold via AT&T 3G and it worked perfectly — no hiccups and no pauses or stutters. We also tested the various basic functionality such as song skipping, giving a song a thumb’s up or thumb’s down, pausing and creating a new station. Everything worked as it should, though skipping to the next track often took a tad longer than we would have liked. The fact that’s our biggest complaint should give you a pretty good idea of how happy we were with the app though. There’s some more popular Pandora functionality packed in of course, such as the ability to bookmark a song or artist, but we trailed off into a state of bliss before we could get into all that. At this point, after only a short time with the app, we would definitely call it the greatest thing to happen to music on a BlackBerry since, well, music on a BlackBerry. There is some bad news however… No (official) T-Mobile love and no support for the Storm for the time being. Ouch. If you’re a Pandora user with a non-T-Mobile ‘Berry though, hit the read link or go to pandora.com from your mobile browser and get streaming.

[Via Zatz Not Funny!]

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83 Responses to “Pandora for BlackBerry finally launches”

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    JakeyBoy says:

    @miles
    that is if Apple doesn’t sue Palm for patent rights(multi touch). i’m sure eventually it will have some sort of internet radio on it, if Palm doesn’t already go bankrupt before the Pre comes out, and then gets squashed by a lawsuit from Apple.

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    Miles Davis says:

    Ditto!

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    Doesn’t work with the storm. Figures…

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    Jack Tee says:

    Finally working on unlocked 8900 using ATT, follow Kyle’s instructions from last week: 8900 on Pandora:
    On Mar 18, 2009 @ 10:33 am, Zach Epstein Said:

    @Kyle

    Options -> Advanced options -> TCP/IP:

    Check both boxes, then

    APN: wap.cingular
    Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
    Password: CINGULAR1

    Should work fine for you after that.

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    jessica says:

    i just got my berry a few months ago so have been trying out a bunch of apps.. pandora’s pretty cool but then i found out about anotehr app thru twitter iheartradio that streams stations from all over the country. ive had less problems with the streaming and prefer the layout.. something to consider!!

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    Celinda says:

    What Song???

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    Heather London says:

    Just downloaded it on my 8320 Curve and it seems to be working great!

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    thom says:

    does anyone know how to get pandora to paly through a headset, i have a bold 9000

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