That’s the theme on Motorola’s new iRadio website. I signed up to be alerted when this new service is available later this year. They claim it will have “Hundreds of commercial-free radio stations and your personal digital music collection on the one device you’re never without–your iRadio-enabled mobile phone.”
I’ve got Sirius satellite radio and one of the things you deal with when driving is having the antenna blocked by things like tunnels, overpasses, trees, etc. Motorola claims:
Hitting the road and don’t want to miss an iRadio beat? Not a problem. Connect iRadio to your car’s sound system wirelessly, with the Motorola wireless audio car adapter. It works with most stereos already installed in vehicles*. But keep your phone in your pocket and control your six iRadio channels via six preset buttons on your car stereo. Your car. Your music. Your iRadio.
Oh no, it’s a tunnel. Whatever. Since iRadio content is cached on your phone, your audio will never be interrupted. Whether you’re in town or in the country, on the subway or in flight, you’ll never miss your iRadio.
Thanks to Marketing Vox for the heads up on this. Motorola claims it will have 435 channels to choose from! I see no mention of farm programming but this sounds like a great application for it. I’ll be contacting them to see what they think. Anyone know what percentage of farmers have mobile phones? How many would buy an iRadio phone if they could get market reports and farm news this way?
It looks like besides commercial-free music channels they’ve even made deals with “traditional radio” companies like Clear Channel (via Techtree.com ). “Jeff Littlejohn, executive vice president, Clear Channel Radio, said, “Motorola iRadio lets us deliver top-rated talk content and custom music channels to listeners wherever they are throughout their day.”