Slacker Launches Portable Offering November 14, 2007
- Digital and Mobile
By Antony Bruno, N.Y.
Slacker is introducing the portable version of its personalized radio service with a $200 device that uses WiFi to update anywhere from 15 to 40 stored radio playlists.
The device won't stream music wirelessly, but rather stores the stations on the device itself, and just updates the tracks on a regular basis when the device is in hotspot range.
The basic Slacker service is free, and allows users to save the songs they like best to the radio stream so that the service won't delete them when updating. But the company is also introducing a premium tier that will let subscribers save individual songs and play them on demand.
The device comes in three sizes -- a 2 GB for $200, a 4 GB for $250 and an 8 GB for $300. The premium service also has various tiers -- 1 year for $90, six months for $50 and three months for $30.
The Slacker service has been available only online in a beta phase since the spring. The new launch represents the emergence from beta, along with a few other extras, including a widget that lets uses stream their personal radio stations on MySpace profiles, as well as share them via e-mail and other outlets.
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