Video: FlyTunes brings internet radio to iPhone

Interested in hitting up internet radio on your iPhone with a sleek interface? For those with unmodified iPhones that are already turning away sheepishly, come on back. FlyTunes is simply a web application accessible via Safari, which allows users to customize stations on their PC / Mac and then login and listen from the phone. Also of note, it can queue up to a half hour of music should you want to listen for awhile after leaving an EDGE / WiFi-covered area, and if you're wondering how much coinage you'll have to lay down to get in on this, you'll be stoked to hear it's free. Onward, to the video!

[tkulla @ Jan 8th 2008 9:37AM]

Sounds cool. The iPhone just keeps getting more tempting. Rev 2 can't come soon enough.

Oh, and count me as a Veronica Belmont fan. Those girl-next-door types always appeal to me.

[jay.viz @ Jan 8th 2008 10:22AM]

Now it can do something that my xv6700 could do with Resco Radio two years ago. I don't even need a subscription.

[GoodJonx @ Jan 8th 2008 9:41AM]

Yeah that iPhone stuff is pretty neat. Speaking of pretty, Veronica Belmont is very pretty.. I love it when she says her name, which she does a lot, so that's good too..

[blade417 @ Jan 8th 2008 11:30AM]

She's pretty and all, but watch out for her cousin Richter, he's pretty tough man, he carries a whip.

[eidorian @ Jan 8th 2008 9:43AM]

God shes so hot!

[K Nang @ Jan 8th 2008 10:14AM]

yeah but...

will she blend?

[Miranda Kali @ Jan 8th 2008 9:43AM]

Sweet! Now, to find out if any of the stations are decent..

[Ross @ Jan 8th 2008 9:52AM]

"FlyTunes works with Macintosh or PC computers, and will be released as a free download..." - Doesn't sound safari-web-based to me... particularly since they also claim it works when you're not connected to the internet.

[Eric @ Jan 8th 2008 10:13AM]

It's safari based on the iPhone/iPod touch side, I believe.

[euclid @ Jan 8th 2008 9:54AM]

Am I the only one fed up with the comments about Ms.Belmont? Nothing against her... in fact I do agree that her presence is refreshing. But every article she features in is dominated by comments about her.

Seems like not many of you get laid.

sheesh..

[Jeremy @ Jan 8th 2008 9:55AM]

You're right -- she's cute!

[kastonie @ Jan 8th 2008 10:20AM]

Hey man... i get laid...
but then again im not commenting about her....

[Ayle @ Jan 8th 2008 10:24AM]

So true... It's sad...

[jilie @ Jan 8th 2008 10:27AM]

meybe because she's dominant in the picture?

[Jeremy @ Jan 8th 2008 11:15AM]

She can be dominant in my picture any day...

[Jeebus @ Jan 8th 2008 1:17PM]

"Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont"

[Daryl Gregg @ Jan 8th 2008 9:55AM]

Joe,

You are forgetting this is a gadget blog, I have other hobbies like racing cars etc but most of the people on this boards problay enjoy a friday night with guitar hero vs getting laid and hangin out with chicks.. Man i miss those days im basically married now.

PS she is hot, not in a Jessica Alba way more like a Jennifer Love Hewit hot ( well not recently ) but you get the picture!

[OneLove @ Jan 8th 2008 10:22AM]

...Hot in a Maura Tierney way

[majortom @ Jan 8th 2008 11:31AM]

actually she is "just" cute. Girl next door type. Sister to your friend type. The kind of girl you might want to spend the rest of your life with type. Not the Hollywood, hard body, professional beauty type. But then that is a good thing. Being older, and married, I find her type more to reality than the plastic blonds on the big screen.

[mannen @ Jan 8th 2008 9:55AM]

Sure she knows how to use an iPhone but can she play Doom?

[Brooks @ Jan 8th 2008 7:46PM]

Yes, actually. She can.

[IndiaTech @ Jan 8th 2008 2:05PM]

Yep... And I heard she is pretty good at that too...

[Killer1 @ Jan 8th 2008 9:58AM]

If XM buys Flytunes, then I'm buying an iPhone.

-"Whoo Whoo Robin, I Invented Satellite Radio"

[ssuk @ Jan 8th 2008 10:00AM]

Oh shit, a woman doing demonstrations on electronics? HOT HOT HOT...

For the love of god people, go the fuck outside.

[Alfred @ Jan 8th 2008 11:41AM]

anyway she's hot

[Nando @ Jan 8th 2008 10:00AM]

She's got that "waitress at Steak 'n Shake" kind of hotness.

[Todd @ Jan 8th 2008 10:00AM]

Boasts that you are a "playa" and get laid every night made on a technology blog instantly make the statement false.

[eidorian @ Jan 8th 2008 10:03AM]

ROFL Todd ! so true !

[superted @ Jan 8th 2008 10:45AM]

ha, that made me choke on my coffee

i'm actually finding this whole thing funny about Veronica, it's totally taken the focus off the biggest 4 days of the tech year on Engadget

[Miranda Kali @ Jan 8th 2008 10:06AM]

...with guys like this.
Is it any wonder I prefer women..?

[GoodJonx @ Jan 8th 2008 10:09AM]

Woah, that's so hot Miranda!

*pictures Miranda making out with Veronica*

[Miranda Kali @ Jan 8th 2008 10:16AM]

...oh, dear god.

[Ayle @ Jan 8th 2008 10:26AM]

This site a sunk to new lows... O_O'

[Justin @ Jan 8th 2008 10:30AM]

I prefer people who don't hold an entire chunk of humanity accountable for the actions of a few of its members.

[packetsniffer @ Jan 8th 2008 10:10AM]

I'd hit that.

[Not A Jessica Alba Fan @ Jan 8th 2008 10:12AM]

Great app for the Iphone..

and btw Jessica Alba is NOT hot.. I guess I have to be a white 16-34 yo. male to understand..
and before you start with the racial undertones.. Im white and 35..

[Jason @ Jan 8th 2008 10:25AM]

Since FlyTunes runs on the Web browser, might it work on a BlackBerry?

[adam @ Jan 8th 2008 10:31AM]

Not to distract anyone from the 5th grade girl ooogling.... But, in the video she says it's available now, but when I go to the website it isn't available until Jan 21st. What's up with that??

[Juice Daddy @ Jan 8th 2008 10:35AM]

so... www.pandora.com doesn't work on the iphone?

[Tad Stein @ Jan 10th 2008 4:28AM]

No. That uses Flash.

[vincentnyc @ Jan 8th 2008 10:42AM]

enuff with the headshot with veronica...we need engadget to lower the cam a bit and also focus on her boobs. please engadget...post the next pix of veronica standing sideway and her pointing to the gadget so we can see her boobs size.

[Kspraydad @ Jan 8th 2008 10:55AM]

Check here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanbui/sets/72157602047165560/

[dwman @ Jan 8th 2008 10:44AM]

Easy gents and take your hands out of your pants. I believe she's the gf of a certain engadget editor-in-chief

[Kspraydad @ Jan 8th 2008 10:48AM]

According to Wiki:

Originally from Connecticut[citation needed], Veronica is the daughter of Barbara Belmont (née Wruck), a former Coleco Vice President, and a father that worked for Hasbro[citation needed]. Growing up, Veronica had a subscription to Weekly World News and Mad Magazine, and had one wall of her bedroom covered in MAD covers.[1] She attended Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, to study audio production and new media studies. She worked briefly in Boston afterwards, and eventually secured an internship at CNET. Veronica currently resides in San Francisco, California with her boyfriend Ryan Block, editor-in-chief of Engadget.

[jonathan @ Jan 8th 2008 11:02AM]

Yeah what gives...it says the 21st on the site, must be a typo...damn i really wanted to try this out too...

[The Angry Intern @ Jan 8th 2008 11:14AM]

it's possible that the publicity it's gotten overloaded them a bit and they decided to bump it back to make sure their servers don't crash or something.

[jonathan @ Jan 8th 2008 11:17AM]

Yeah that could be, its definitly running in the demo.

[Joe Pollicino @ Jan 8th 2008 11:06AM]

Veronica, Will you marry me?

[Lord HowitHurtz @ Jan 8th 2008 11:14AM]

Ms. Belmont is a hottie!
But i'm kinda getting sick and tired of seeing her holding every gadget.
Your at CES to show us gadgets, not to show us you holding gadgets.
Talk about attention whores.

[Veronica @ Jan 8th 2008 1:55PM]

Uh... would you prefer I NOT show you the gadget? Or maybe just leave it on a table and not show how it works? And I'm being an "attention whore" for doing my job, which is doing videos at CES of GADGETS?

Wait, why am I even responding to this comment? *goes back to chugging coffee and reading feeds*