Pandora comes to the iPhone

Peter G. 10 Jul, 2008 at 9:58pm ET Article published in Tech

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Apple unveiled the Pandora Music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch during the unveiling of the iTunes App store today. Previously, Pandora had only been available on Sprint models. This marks the first move to an OS X-based mobile platform and a first for them working with AT&T.

Heres the run-down of what Pandora has to offer:

The user can book mark songs or artists, or even purchase the current song from iTunes.
Pandora is 100 percent free! Free, that is, for now. in the future they may add audio clips of advertisements.
With the iPhone and iTouch you will be able to stream music over the 3G network or Wi-Fi. If you’re a first-gen owner then you can stream over Wi-Fi or the Edge network.
The audio quality streams at 64Kbs stereo .mp3. The audio quality my be retooled once Pandora’s tech team has some time to adjust to iPhones new hardware.

If Pandora can manage to keep the advertisements out of the music and step up the quality of audio, this may turn out to be a must have application for the iPhone and iTouch.

Thanks to Scott “jokerz4fun” Osborne for the news!

Comments

11 Jul 2008 ~ 7:49am Developer "The user can book mark songs or artists, or even purchase the current song from iTunes."

Wow, I like that "even"

Pandora was a nice thing, wish it was back in Europe again.
13 Jul 2008 ~ 2:54pm jared This app is pretty nice. I use Pandora pretty heavily so I might be a bit bias...

But with that said I would def. check out the AOL Radio application - it's very slick too....

cheers
13 Jul 2008 ~ 5:00pm fatcat /me likes his pandora on his 1st gen iPhone over edge..yus very nice.
16 Jul 2008 ~ 2:34pm mertesn I just loaded Pandora today. So far it's pretty cool.