Comments on: Sony’s radio destroyer?

By: Amir Kiani

Amir Kiani — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:57:54 +0000

This Sony device is guaranteed to play you the music you like, but that’s all. No discovery, no new tracks, no news, travel, weather. Nothing to talk about with your friends, nothing to learn. (Until you add podcasts, of course.) It’s not my own personal station, really. It’s just my own music.
Its one of the my favorite handset have lots of……………….

By: William T

William T — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:23:05 +0000

I’m sure it really adds to the whole radio experience that you have to position the phone close enough to the radio to make it go ‘brrr-brrr-br-br-br-brrr’ every 15 minutes when it communicates with the base station…

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:26:57 +0000

To be honest, this is no different to an iTrip. More interesting for me is the fact that the iPod has spawned these new innovations for years - I bought my first iTrip three years ago - BUT radio seems to have a Soviet pace of innovation. Pure (the makers of the Evoke-1) are only just now launching their clever little equivalent device for DAB.

Of course I think the Pure in car DAB is great - but is there enough fresh thinking in the radio industry to come up with these things? The industry has been hung up on in car DAB being an important stepping stone but there has been a lazy approach to solving it. The geek community (and I use that term fondly) fixed the problem for iPods in a trice.

By: martin

martin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:08:03 +0000

Um, it’s like an iTrip. For my mobile phone. Which I don’t use for music anyway, because I’ve got an iPod for that.

The only difference I can see between this and an iTrip is that it’s got the halo effect of being Walkman branded, if that even means anything these days.

By: Jason Cartwright

Jason Cartwright — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:28:17 +0000

I bought one of these transmitters (it looks like soap on a rope) from the states before they were *cough* legal in the UK. Works a treat with my iPod in the car, but it doesn’t replace Radio 1 if there is a good show on.