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Motorola Unveils iRadio

sayanchak writes "Motorola is introducing iRadio in its 2nd edition of the ROKR cell phone. An article in Reuters says that iRadio will be a subscription music service that will go on sale this year. This will put Motorola in competition with other such services like XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio." From the article: "The iRadio service will cost about $7 (4 pounds) a month but the price may vary depending on which wireless phone service the subscriber uses, according to Motorola. U.S. service providers including Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless are planning mobile music download services for this year. Sprint Nextel has already launched music download and streaming services. Motorola did not reveal any service provider partnerships but said it hopes to sell the service in conjunction with wireless operators, which could sell subscribers a wireless download of a song that they discovered through iRadio."

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  1. I will buy something that just starts with "i" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anything that is cammel case and starts with "i" I will buy

  2. Excellent! I needed help with New Years resolution by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny
    The iRadio service will cost about $7 (4 pounds) a month...

    Can I choose to pay the 4 pounds a month instead of dollars? I did resolve to lose some weight and I figure at 4 pounds a month I can keep the service for at least a year until I am down to a reasonable weight.

  3. Let me be the first to say... by mgrassi99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that any company (other than Apple) that names their product iAnything should have 15% iDeducted from their iStock price for being iUncreative. It was catchy when Apple started doing it (if they were even the first), but now its kind of "their thing" and it just sounds, well, stupid when other companies do it.

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by mildgift · · Score: 2, Funny

      how about 'f'?

  4. Idiot Radio by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    The first thing I thought of when I read the title was "iRadio = idiot Radio". Of course I own an iBook. Oh well.

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  5. iYiYi by zrk · · Score: 2, Funny



    iPredict iOne of iThese iServices will iMerge with another within 1 iYear. iI don't iThink there's enough of a iMarket to iSupport all of iThese.

  6. Re:Excellent! I needed help with New Years resolut by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 2, Funny

    will make me go blind faster than the kid next door watching scrabled dirty movies,
    Watching the scrambled pr0n isn't what makes you go blind, didn't you mum teach you anything.

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  7. How about a really old one? by bill_kress · · Score: 2, Funny

    fO
    fOad
    fU
    fUbar
    fTw
    fTn (or fTa or fTm I suppose)
    fIgmo

    Which also leads to the capitalized letter being the significant one:
    aFu
    tFu
    snaFu
    gtFo
    milF
    rtFm
    pFm
    bFd
    bFg

    ?