Friday, January 9, 2009

Wireless in more ways than one - WIFI WIRELESS RADIO


The promise of thousands of radio stations at the flick of a dial is being brought by Sanyo over the next couple of weeks.
Their R227 digital radio connects via WiFi or wired internet and said Chris Palmer and "delivers the world" by allowing you to access thousands of stations around the globe.
The radio lets users search by either location or genre depending on whether or not they want to find different types of music, sports, talks shows and so on.
"There is all kinds of content out there," said Mr Palmer.
"It ranges from terrestrial broadcasters to small community stations and guys in their garages who have created specialised content.
"One of the great things about this device is that you also have the ability if you find that there are certain free stations available, you can get them added to the data base. So it's a product that can grow with you and you can customise more and more content."
Where this wins over the computer is from a format point of view said Mr Palmer.
"The computer is just not the most convenient way because of a lot of different interfaces, a lot of different formats between MP3 and AAC and real audio and Windows media."
And he says once you pay $169.99 (£113) for the radio, there is no other fee which means "out of the box you have access to thousands of stations the world over."

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