Motorola iRadio: (some) details revealed
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 3rd 2006 8:00AM
posted Jan 3rd 2006 8:00AM
Motorola is givin' up some
deets on their iRadio service we've been telling you about for
like, oh forevah. Expected to go on sale "this year," the service will first run on the much speculated ROKR E2 (which we now know, will not include iTunes) and
thought to hold 70 hours of
music. The iRadio service will include 435 commercial-free radio channels covering important genres like
"Rockin' Cowboys" and, uh, "Angry Women." In addition to receiving updates over-the-air, the
service allows users to download channels to their computer and transfer them to play on their phones or car and home
stereos. Subscribers can also use iRadio to put their own collection of MP3s onto their phones. The service will cost
about $7 per month and will be sold via mobile operators. Motorola is being quiet about who they are partnering with to
deliver the service in a market already crowded with Cingular's
MobiRadio, Sprint's Sirius-over-Vision, and Verizon's V Cast
Music.
will people really spend money to listen tp the radio, after all radio is something which is traditionally free and not something have ever felt they have had to pay for.
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Moto sucks... they couldn't even get the ROKR right.... wich I thought was a no brainer
I guess this is why Jobs said "Cingular [excluding Moto] is a great partner...".
This site gave me a $750 prepaid via for doing two free trial offers I did Core Control and Video Professer and got the via in 10 days. http://www.productestingreviews.com/750via.htm
Ha, when I worked at Moto a few years ago, "iRadio" was their label for a whizbang in-car audio head unit with Internet access for text services that they were (briefly) promoting. Hmm, guess that didn't pan out, typical.
This clinches it for my BIG PREDICTION for 2006 ...
Apple launches iPhone, a WiFi/WiMax VoIP handset that can access Skype and other networks.
With Moto's abandonment of iTunes, and the 'fun' Apple had with trying to get a OTA version of iTunes launched ... you know they are looking at how they can launch a distruptive technology device into the richest consumer tech market there is ... mobile phones.