Comments on: Prototype Of Pandora Wifi Device Shown Tonight In San Francisco

By: A Look at Supernova 2007 Connected Innovators

A Look at Supernova 2007 Connected Innovators — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:51:37 +0000

[...] music libraries over WiFi. They’re currently powering the SanDisk devices for Yahoo Music and Pandora. You can see a Wink powered group for the event [...]

By: Tecnologías básicas para el final de una década: predicciones, tendencias y pronósticos : La Cofa - Blog de Vigilancia Tecnológica

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:48:53 +0000

[...] de terminales específicos para el acceso a servicios concretos con ejemplos como Slacker, Pandora o el lector de libros de Amazon llamado Kindle. Sin olvidar los terminales que aceptan widgets como [...]

By: Av da

Av da — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:36:09 +0000

Thanks for the info )

By: elbillo

elbillo — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:23:42 +0000

drool……… I love pandora, and I love all your comments

By: nonsmokingarea.com

nonsmokingarea.com — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:45:55 +0000

Pandora: back in charts!…

music recommendation has seemingly been dominated by Last.fm recently (new widgets, video-content, mashups), while competitor & innovator Pandora was less lucky being forced to shut down services outside the US. at yesterdays press-event at the Mus…

By: Clintus McGintus

Clintus McGintus — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:35:17 +0000

It’s about damn time. XM what?

By: Orbitcast

Orbitcast — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:56:00 +0000

ruh-roh! Pandora Wifi Portable Device…

Pandora isn’t just going the mobile audio route, they’re also going the digital audio player route. They’ve just pre-announced an upcoming Wifi device to be built by SanDisk, and powered by none-other than Zing.Zing of course, debuted their Wifi tec…

By: Niglb

Niglb — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:43:53 +0000

They need to get a client running on the PSP, what a market. The number one homebrew app out there is PSP Radio, a shoutcast wifi radio program.

By: links for 2007-05-23 « ‘Cross The Breeze

links for 2007-05-23 « ‘Cross The Breeze — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:36:18 +0000

[...] Prototype Of Pandora Wifi Device Shown Tonight In San Francisco They also made a pre-announcement, however, of an upcoming Wifi music player to be built by SanDisk and powered by Zing. (tags: pandora sandisk zing wifi music player announcement) [...]

By: Brian Caldwell

Brian Caldwell — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:32:03 +0000

Thanks for the photo credit Mike!

By: eponymousX » Blog Archive » Pandora Everywhere Platform - Prototype Wifi Device

Wed, 23 May 2007 23:28:07 +0000

[...] I had a front row seat, with Michael Arrington sitting right behind me as he pounded out TechCrunch coverage of the event on his MacBook [...]

By: orthodoxdrew

orthodoxdrew — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:09:54 +0000

i want last.fm submission capability

By: Richard Tallent

Richard Tallent — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:53:35 +0000

I’m with leandra here. I love Pandora at my desktop, but walking around, I’d rather have an app that is compatible with my Windows Mobile phone (VX-6700 in my case), or an iPhone if I go that direction.

Otherwise, they are taking a huge risk that the cell phone companies and cache-only music players like the iPod will add just enough smart-playlist functionality to pass them by on hardware the user already owns.

Speaking of which, Apple should definitely buy up Pandora and integrate their app with iTunes/iPod like they did with Coverflow.

Think of it: if I’ve already purchased the CD (as I have with several CDs recommended by Pandora), it can play the local, hi-bitrate version.

That is the best of both worlds: dynamic, smart playlists with thumbs up/down and fresh recommendations, and integration with existing legal collections. It would save Pandora a bundle on license fees when music is already owned (no stream, no fee), and provide a direct revenue stream for sales of songs that were recommended and streamed (something iTunes can’t offer yet, and more palatable than commercials).

By: synistics

synistics — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:52:21 +0000

This is not the first, nor will it be the last.

One writer refers to the Slacker unit. While Slacker is running a music distribution service, they have yet to trot out a unit.

This unit is a re-badged Yahoo unit. Not new, not original. It does continue to lock people to one service. It does not offer choice and it does not have memory. it is a 4 gig unit versus the Zune (which I am not a fan of) that has a 30 gig HD.

The Yahoo unit has a slot for a Micro SD card.

As it was put to me in the store, you are buying a $100 wifi unit with $20 worth of memory.

Watch for these over the next two years.

The other thing that needs to be taken into consideration. The Yahoo, AOL, Pandora, Rahpsody services are about to be wacked with HUGE inrcease in royalty fees. IT will make the cost of doing internet streaming crazy and will end up with a service fee that will look like your cable tv bill.

The cost increase will take the fees up to the point where to support a million users if till cost these broadcasters about 1000 dollars a user. Someone will need to pay for it.

A definite step in the right direction, but the elephant in the corner is going to step on this idea and crush it.

By: leandra

leandra — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:48:12 +0000

am i missing something? why not just stream this service onto cellphones and avoid yet another device to carry around…

By: chicagojosh

chicagojosh — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:47:44 +0000

As long as it has some form of caching system, I’m all about getting one.

By: Dude Dudestofferson

Dude Dudestofferson — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:11:28 +0000

Looks kinda neat, but umm..
the Nokia N800 already does this & much more.

Comes with integrated Rhapsody player & can connect via WiFi or BlueTooth+Mobile Phone.
Not to mention it supports a wide variety of MP3 & Video player apps as well as streaming, internet radio, podcasts, full web browsing, chat, etc…
Hard to beat for the money – less than $350.

I doubt these new Wireless MP3 devices give you total access WiFi, I am sure it will be limited & have DRM restrictions.

By: pablo

pablo — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:00:42 +0000

Looks interesting but it’ll be hard to beat the implementation Sandisk has done with Rhapsody on the e200 series of Sansa players. IMHO, tighter integration on that one than between iTunes and iPod. But overall, I like the direction Sandisk is taking, becoming more of a services platform. Some of these implementations will hit, some will miss but in the end competition will drive the value proposition up.

By: Gene Wade

Gene Wade — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:52:00 +0000

This morning I updated the firmware on my sonos system and installed the Pandora service. This is fantastic!! It’s a real game changer.

They’ve done a great job of integrating the two services. Not only can you create radio stations right from your hand held controller, but you can also add songs and albums to your pandora list of favorites that you share with friends. Using Sonos, I can now listen to music on pandora and, if I like it, I go to Rhapsody and add it to my library. And I do all of this from my hand held sonos controller – nuts.

I hate to sound like a commercial, but . . . .

By: dave

dave — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:42:48 +0000

I was pretty sure this was just the sansa connect device running the pandora app on the zing platform. If it’s really a different form factor than the current connect device, it must be a next gen that zing is already working with, since it took them less than 3 weeks to get the prototype running. It’s certainly not a device built specifically for pandora.

By: deusdiabolus

deusdiabolus — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:25:26 +0000

I wonder if this idea was spawned before or after the recent unveiling of the Slacker netradio station, which included plans for a portable hard-drive WiFi unit to be introduced this summer?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:56:47 +0000

Couldn’t the iPhone do the same thing? Or they could create an app for the iPhone?

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:17:12 +0000

Mike, I will create a diversion.

By: Doug Johnson

Doug Johnson — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:59:17 +0000

This looks awesome I am going to have to keep an I out for this one.

By: Christian Cadeo

Christian Cadeo — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:17:17 +0000

Too bad I cannot access this due to being based in Singapore, but it does look pretty compelling.