HD Radio now available on iPhone & iTouch
Well, it’s not built in, but it’s a step in the right direction…iBiquity has made its first foray into the mobile market and its third in the portable market (the first were Best Buy’s Insignia NS-HD01 and Microsoft’s Zune HD): The Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and the HD Radio app. The combination enables iPhone and iPod touch devices to tune into HD Radio broadcasts for the first time.
Adding HD Radio Technology to the iPhone and iPod touch (compatible with models updated with 3.0 software) is a two-step process:
â–ª Step 1: Buy the Gigaware HD Radio accessory, designed for and sold exclusively at RadioShack for an MSRP of $79.99.
â–ª Step 2: Download the free app by clicking on the Apple App Store icon on the actual device or though the iTunes’ App Store link (under the Music category) in the top left column.
The app software features an intuitive, user-friendly interface; a manual tune wheel or auto-seek option; and the ability to connect with friends through e-mail, Twitter and Facebook. Users can also preview content currently airing and directly select a main station or multicast channel stream, in addition bookmarking their favorite stations and multicast channels. An iTunes Tagging button on the Gigaware navigation accessory also allows users to tag songs for future review and purchase via iTunes.
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"You’ve probably heard that Apple’s new iPod Nano will have an FM tuner with iTunes tagging built in. Lost in radio’s coverage of the announcement was its impact on HD Radio... Apple’s deal with iBiquity was just a test. They wanted a system that could sell more downloads and trump Rhapsody, and HD was the perfect guinea pig. They already had tagging on the entire iPod line. With the kinks worked out, now all they had to do was add an FM tuner to the iPod. Which they did with the new Nano... Make no mistake. This move was not designed to help radio. It was designed to give iTunes a revenue boost... And HD? Apple knows how many downloads HD generated for iTunes. Maybe that’s why they didn’t bother adding an HD tuner to any of the new iPods."
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Wht would Steve Jobs ever pay iBiquity HD chipset and licensing fees for an inferior, power-hungry device. This POS attachment will never sell - who needs it, with streaming Internet Radio stations.
"RBR/TVBR observation: At first we thought iTunes Tagging of course meant an FM HD tuner. However, it turns out the iTunes Tagging is based on RDS. This is not a good sign for HD Radio, as they could have incorporated the smaller chipset (read: HD Zune, Best Buy Insignia devices) into the Nano."
http://www.rbr.com/media-news/internet/16914.html
I guess that RBR forgot about their earlier article. Bob Struble will stop at nothing to "push" his product. Meanwhile, Pandora is being "pulled" by listeners into #2 place, behind CBS Radio, for online streaming, and is headed in-dash.
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