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iPhone App Review: Pandora for iPhone and iPod touch
Friday amidst the fury new iPhone application releases, Pandora released an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to take their personalized radio stations with them. Existing Pandora users can download the free app and instantly have access to all their current radio stations as well as add new ones. If you're not already a Pandora user then the process is slightly more difficult to get started and involves authorizing your mobile device on Pandora's web page.Pandora for the iPhone offers the same features as traditional Pandora for your PC. Stations can be easily created around a particular artist or song that you enjoy. As you're listening to a song you can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down to help customize the station to your preferences. Songs can be skipped if you really don't like them, bookmarked if you do, or immediately purchased through the iTunes store if you can't live without them a moment longer. The app also has an information button where you can read about why a particular song was selected to play on your radio station.
We gave the app a little test drive last night. We were really impressed with the app's interface and love that looks a lot like traditional Iphone music player, complete with full screen cover art. If you're still rocking a first gen iPhone and live somewhere where your EDGE data tends to be a little hit or miss, then so is your Pandora. We drove around town and had a few instances where the music would skip, or in some cases stop entirely which is no fun when you're trying to rock out. Most of the issues seemed to happen in-between songs so the app may be designed to work a little ahead of itself to compensate for passing through areas that aren't EDGE friendly.
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Quikboy said 7:51AM on 7-13-2008
I'm still waiting for an official Pandora app. on WinMo. :^)
I would so love a mobile Pandora on my phone. The iPhone version looks nice though. Hopefully they're work on a WinMo version. If there is one, I wasn't aware of it.
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Transcontinental said 10:30AM on 7-13-2008
Do you really have to insert ads up to your RSS feeds?
http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/* is annoying as it leaves a blank square on my feeds, blank since the link is denied by my system, annoying because this blank square is ugly.
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Transcontinental said 8:16AM on 7-13-2008
imageads.googleadservices.com/* is annoying on your RSS feeds! -- I mean, even on RSS feeds!
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Samuel Lago said 10:16PM on 7-16-2008
Oh Pandora, where are you in England
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