Radio apps among most popular in Ireland - icarradio app is next for the car radio

TRSJ

Radio apps among most popular in Ireland - icarradio app is next for the car radio

Are we ready for wifi radio on the go?

I just noticed while browsing the apple app store last week that the number one downloaded app for people's phones in Ireland was not rte, the independent or pac man but the Radio Ireland app which lists and streams all Irish stations (community, commercial, pirate, college, web only). It seems like the public really have an appetite for radio on their phones now as the phone becomes everybody's all-in-one media centre.

Later this year the next generation icarradio app comes on general release which will sync your iphone with your car radio so you will have 30,000 on the go.......at last! It will compress data from networks so users won't use up their data allowance.

Tunin.fm's makers claims that it is 'the world’s first and only mobile internet radio receiver for the iPhone which has been specifically designed to be used while on the move.'

So how far are we away now from 30,000 stations in the car and on the move? Does this kill dab?

francie BradyII

i use tunin.fm on the move it's very good!

eth0_

Are you mad? The standard of 3G in this country is sh*t and coverage is far from amazing outside cities and towns. I use fStream on my iphone to listen to BBC stations in the car but it's pretty useless if I want to drive anywhere remotely rural.

Cunsiderthis

TRSJ wrote: »

Radio apps among most popular in Ireland - icarradio app is next for the car radio

Are we ready for wifi radio on the go?

I just noticed while browsing the apple app store last week that the number one downloaded app for people's phones in Ireland was not rte, the independent or pac man but the Radio Ireland app which lists and streams all Irish stations (community, commercial, pirate, college, web only). It seems like the public really have an appetite for radio on their phones now as the phone becomes everybody's all-in-one media centre.

Later this year the next generation icarradio app comes on general release which will sync your iphone with your car radio so you will have 30,000 on the go.......at last! It will compress data from networks so users won't use up their data allowance.

Tunin.fm's makers claims that it is 'the world’s first and only mobile internet radio receiver for the iPhone which has been specifically designed to be used while on the move.'

So how far are we away now from 30,000 stations in the car and on the move? Does this kill dab?

I've never understood the benefit of DAB, which has seemed to me just another way of listening to some stations also available on FM.

The appeal of internet radio, on the other hand, is apparant, and to be able to listen to radio stations from across the world is amazing.

As technology improves, it will probably change the way we listen to radio in much the same way as satellite has changed the way many of us listen to tv.

byte

Quite like the WunderRadio app myself - not restricted to Irish stations.

tipperaryboy

byte wrote: »

Quite like the WunderRadio app myself - not restricted to Irish stations.

+1 WunderRadio is the best radio app excellent.It works best somewhere that there is a good wifi signal.