Future Fosstek: Mobile App Review: TuneIn Radio

Monday, April 4, 2011

Mobile App Review: TuneIn Radio

at Monday, April 04, 2011 Posted by Jeremy

Every once in awhile, I seem to stumble upon really cool stuff. And this is no exception. Over the weekend I was at Best Buy playing with their Android tablets. My wife took the Motorola Zoom for a spin and loved it. While playing with it, she found "TuneIn Radio". She installed it on her HTC Evo 4G (and absolutely loves it). So I figured why not see if it is available on my iPod Touch. And it is.

So, what does it do? Easy, it streams radio stations from the internet (both AM and FM stations; for those who need AM access). But that's not all. It can use your location to compile a list of radio stations local to where you are located. If you want to branch out a little, you can search for radio stations or specific songs/artists. Are you a podcast fan? I am. And guess what? You can also stream podcasts (without having to sync them via iTunes). Playback is nice and smooth and sounds great. The app also identifies the name of the song and the artist while it plays. If you're using it on a iDevice with the iOS 4 update, you can multi task with it. You can also record a desired station for playback later.

The app is free for Android users (requires Android 1.5 and up). Drop by the Market to get it for Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=tunein.player&feature=search_result

For your iDevice, requires iOS 3 and up. And it is currently $0.99 cents from the App Store.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunein-radio/id319295332?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

The app is extremely easy to use, and allows you to have a list of your favorite streaming stations in one place on your mobile device. It's also available for other devices as well. It's supported hardware list is:

Mobile