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Why is Pandora better than AOL?]]>Mar 12th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
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Expect Sirius/XM to fumble this one. Those guys have no clue what they're doing.

I would pay $1.99 a month, tops. Anything more than that, and it's just not worth it. ]]>Mar 12th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
On the plus side, they're more than happy to screw over O&A to keep King Howie happy.

Because you know, O&A are failures for being on different two 'mediums' (on air FM, and Sirius XM), and one 'fired' them (and almost everyone else at the company, because the station was flipped in order to save money).]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Then we will complain.
Then Apple will pass it through.

This seems to be norm now.
I like it.]]>Mar 12th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Meh. To each their own. I was an XM subscriber since the week they launched in the US until I cancelled late last month. I know services will see increases in cost over time, but the recent hikes coupled with a complete FUBARing of the lineup was the final straw. I haven't really felt like I was getting a good value out of my service fee for some time now, especially with the poor audio quality many stations get. So yeah, I finally bailed. After being with them for like 7 years.

I will say that Sirius's sound quality was infinitely better when I heard it, but I expect all that will change as things merge. Still, I couldn't see myself paying for something that I frequently hate the song selection on when Pandora, Last.FM, and Shoutcast are available - and for free.
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I'm sure all this app will do is access their internet feeds.]]>Mar 12th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
You did ask.]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/2. No turn-by-turn voice navigation system (a poor man's Google maps version is available for the system however)
3. No Flash support inside Safari (SkyFire can do this with ease, and Flash Lite for Opera even works better than Apple's offering)
4. No copy and paste (WinMo handles this elegantly by comparison)
5. No VGA or WVGA screen (instead we are given a low-Res screen leaving much to be desired. come on Apple, at least give us VGA resolution if not WVGA)
6. No way to edit documents (SoftMaker Office for Windows Mobile handles this impeccably well, even Office Mobile suffices to a certain degree)
7. No bluetooth music streaming and/or file transfers -- A2DP (video is out of the question)
8. No voice command (WM devices have featured this for years now and it works brilliantly on them)
9. No video recording (seriously Apple, I mean come on, my grandmother's 5 year old flip phone has this feature)
10. No capability to take handwritten notes (Asian markets that rely on this and many of us Note takers in general that rely on this critical feature are left out in the cold)
11. No user replaceable battery
12. No physical keyboard (no amount of fooling one's self will make up for the lack of a true hardware keyboard)
13. No drag and drop file juggling
14. No tethering (natively)
15. No MMS (natively)
16. No external storage card support (Micro SDHC cards are up to 32 GB now, 8GB is NOT enough these days, especially for a media device, and besides choice of being able to carry additional media is always a plus)
17. No Java
18. No IR port (it's something many take for granted, using their phones as a remote for well...anything just about)
19. No Live TV (that doesnt require you to be connected to an app like Orb on your home PC, which defeats the purpose, why would I want to watch it on a dinky non VGA screen instead of just on my home PC when im at home anyways)
20. No camera flash
21. No camera zoom or Auto Focus
22. Same old, subpar, 2 MP camera for that matter as in the first iteration
23. No radio
24. No front camera
25. Limited video format support
26. Limited picture format support
27. Limited file format support in general
28. Only 128 MB of RAM (Cant run many apps simultaneously -- I mean not that it matters since multitasking is for all intents and purposes out of the question! New WM phones are getting 256+ MB of RAM, with 150+ MB free on bootup)
29. Sluggish performance (perhaps due to the aforementioned 128 MB RAM limitation. why does it take several seconds to open up the contacts list or why does it lag when typing text)
30. A very stringent and almost "closed" development environment (why does Apple have to give its seal of approval for every single app distributed on the phone. This is counterproductive and in many ways even stifles competition. Apple for the longest wouldnt even allow developers to write their own web browsers. SkyFire with flash would otherwise have been an option already for the iPhone, but that would threaten their own Safari browser. Let's not even get into all of the other potentially cool, and not so ethical apps that are simply not even allowed to exist)
31. You cannot try before you buy apps in the store like you can with the standard shareware model.
Demo versions need to be allowed, with an easy "Time's up; want to buy it?" function. It would encourage more serious apps - I think that people are afraid to pay even $5-$10
given the low average price of an iPhone app.]]>Mar 12th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
So basically Apple needs an iPhone Pro?]]>Mar 12th 2009 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
Apple will tack on a handful of the aforementioned features one product iteration at a time, milking the ifanboys in 12 month intervals until 5 years down the line all of the said features are finally integrated into one device -- presumably the 7th generation iPhone.

There will be much rejoicing, as iFanboys declare the iPhone 7G as the most innovative device on the market for bringing all of these features to the table (7 years after they've been standardized on other units), and ironically enough will argue apologetically that these features didn't matter before, because they would eat up too much battery life of course, but now that is a thing of the past.

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Yeah but what phone does all of that plus everything the iPhone does?

There is no perfect device, the iPhone for me has more benefits that any other phone. There is no other phone out there that would convince me to switch.]]>Mar 13th 2009 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
Thanks for the insight.]]>Mar 12th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
See here for more info:
http://networkjew.com/2009/02/25/stream-sirius-xbmc-windows-mobile/]]>Mar 12th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
1) Not an Apple app

2) Not an Apple app

3) Not an Apple app]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
The fruity fan boys wouldn't know what to do with a cab file.
1 & 1/2 years of BTLS on my WiMo.]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Fa fa flo Ha]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/
So now Sirius XM customers need to wait a few months of an application that should be out now.]]>Mar 12th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Last.fm FTW]]>Mar 12th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/12/sirius-xm-developing-iphone-ipod-touch-streaming-radio-app/Mar 12th 2009 2:25PM