rad.io has been providing easy access to radio stations from around the world using a web browser, but recently they launched an app in the Android Market. You can listen to more than 4,000 international radio stations, podcasts, and internet radios for free over 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi.
Features:
- Constantly updated database
- Categorical search – Top 100, genre, topic, city, country, language
- Title information with buying option
- Favorite feature without registration
- Local feature – find local stations based on your GPS location
- Homescreen widget
- Editorial recommendations
- Sharing feature for facebook, google+ and twitter
Full press release after the break:
rad.io launches Android app and updates iPhone app
From now on the owners of Android devices all around the world can use the popular audio service of rad.io on their cell phones. The new app offers more than 4.000 international radio stations, podcasts and genre- or topic-related stations in just one application. It can be downloaded for free on http://rad.io/android. At the same time rad.io launches an update for the iPhone app with a new local feature. The rad.io apps turn smartphones into shortwave receivers.
Hamburg, Oct. 10th 2011. The rad.io for android app offers a broad range of international radio stations, podcasts and web radios and enables users to listen to their favorite stations whenever and wherever they want. This new app presents many features that turn mobile radio into an indispensable pleasure: Well-organized lists of radio stations, sorted by top 100, genre, topic or city inspiring recommendations by the rad.io editorial team and the option to save favorites without registration. With the new home screen widget users can start the station they heard last with only one click.
rad.io offers a great variety from classic stations like 181.fm –
The Beat, Capital FM or triple j, online radio stations like .977 –
The Hitz Channel, 1.FM – Top 40 or Absolute 80s up to topics like news, culture, sports or comedy.
“With the launch of the Android app we proceed with our success in the mobile sector. Our purpose is to provide users with simple access to radio programs via the internet. Whether they use a browser, social networks or mobile devices like an Android based smartphone or an iPhone, rad.io allows the mobile consumption of the radio. The growing spread of mobile tablet pcs will accelerate this development and permanently change our media utilization.” (Bernhard Bahners, CEO rad.io/radio.de GmbH Germany)
Simultaneously rad.io launches an update for the iPhone app, contining a new home screen design that presents all features of the app at one glance, and a new local feature, which provides users with radio stations from their region.
About rad.io
The international radio platform rad.io provides easy access to radio stations from around the world via the internet – using a browser, social networks or mobile devices like the iPhone and now also on Android based phones. Rad.io is a product of the radio.de GmbH, which is located in Hamburg, Germany and runs further platforms with radio.fr in France and radio.at in Austria since 2008.