If you own one, the app will let you stream Slacker radio stations on-the-go (whether your phone is connected to a wireless network or not).
According to a press release: "Slacker station caching, an exclusive feature for BlackBerry smartphones, enables mobile listeners to store favorite stations on a memory card, allowing Slacker music service to play without a network connection..."
Slacker offers thousands of stations, some programmed by pros, others programmed by individual Slacker users.
The Slacker Personal Radio Mobile can be downloaded at www.slacker.com/blackberry. (Available to U.S. customers, requires Device Software version 4.3 and higher.)
Previous News About Slacker:
* Slacker Unveils G2 Personal Radio Player
* Slacker Gives You Personalized Radio Streams
Comments
Sometimes, even “free” is too expensive. The “Stations” a user can create are apparently the songs of one or more specific artists in their database and/or whatever their algorithms think is related music. If it is possible to get Internet Radio stations that are not their synthetic versions, e.g. by entering the URL of a real one with it, I can’t figure out how.
If your tastes aren’t pretty mainstream, their artist collection will be pretty useless to you. I entered “Kirlian Camera” (industrial / EBM) … what came out was WTF?
RadioBee cost me $5 (including the adware), it works like a streaming Internet Radio client does on a personal computer. Unless you can find another Blackberry Internet Radio client that doesn’t phone home, preferably in freeware, get RadioBee instead.