Friday, December 7, 2007

Nokia Internet Radio

Aww.... Bad FM radio reception again? Not to worry.

Nokia has finally released their internet radio application which has been under R&D for some time now. There's practically no setup involved! Just install, connect, and you're good to go! Truely in the Nokia spirit of being user-friendy.

Besides the fact that it's incredibly easy to use, i like this app for the ability to control the stream quality according to cnnection type. i.e. High quality(128kbps) and above for WiFi, medium quality for 3G and low quality for GPRS, though i havent tried out the low quality yet.  This app also integrates well with my N95 and i was able to control the volume through the volume keys instead of navigation keys.

The downside of the app is that this great loooking black theme is fixed, meaning the app's appearance does not follow your mobile theme as a regular app would, and for now there's no way of changing this...but i'm sure there's a lot of you out there already using this theme so it should't be a problem.

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Pros:  Incredibly simple and user friendly, wide variety of stations, good streaming quality, integrates well with Nokia phones

Cons: Fixed appearance, cannot change them or color

1 comment:

steverobbo said...

I've found the app to be of great use. The only downside, is that it's not possible to add new streams without getting the server link directly (via a PC) initially.
I've already added my favourite stations anyway, though.