Slacker Portable 8GB Internet Radio with 40 Stations - 90260005 - The World's first Personal Radio Player! Create your own unique radio experience

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Manufacturer: SLACKER
Mfg Part#: 90260005
UPC: 00689076575874
Buy.com Sku: 206165763
Item#: CC9WEP
Buy.com Sales Rank: 2000
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Personalized Radio

Personalized Radio

It starts with the Slacker Radio service. Slacker has developed a highly personalized Internet Radio service, with over 2 million songs, organized into over 100 professionally programmed stations, 10,000 artist stations, and an unlimited number of personally created stations. You can continue to evolve any of these stations to match your tastes over time by rating your favorite songs and banning artists or songs you don't like. You can even fine tune your stations to play older or newer music, more hits or more eclectic music, or to help you discover more artists. The Slacker Radio service is now licensed by all 4 major labels and thousands of independent labels and music publishers, creating a vast library of music varied enough for even the most eclectic radio stations.

Everywhere You Go

Everywhere

While we believe Slacker is the world's best Internet Radio service, the real breakthrough is that it's now completely portable.

Choose your Stations

You can choose up to 40 of your favorite Slacker Radio stations to play on your Slacker Portable at any time, depending on the model you purchase. To get you started, we'll ship your Slacker Portable with your favorite 10 stations, but it's easy to switch radio stations in and out of your device at any time.

Play Them Everywhere

The Slacker Portable automatically connects to the extensive Slacker music library over Wi-Fi when in wireless range, or over USB when attached to an Internet connected PC. Instead of live streaming of songs, the Slacker Portable quickly fills itself up with personally selected music each time you connect. The players hold up to 4,000 CD quality songs that are continuously refreshed to match your tastes and the radio stations you play. This means you don't need a continuous connection to play Slacker Radio on your player. Since the Slacker radio stations play from the music library on your device, you can play them everywhere go you - even when you're not connected.

For the Best Radio Experience Anywhere

Patent pending DJ technology inside the Slacker Portable uses the same station mixing rules perfected by radio DJs over decades, so you get the benefits of great radio programming, along with personally selected music and complete portability.

For Free

While you have to buy the player for portability, the Slacker Basic Radio service is completely free. All the features of Slacker Radio are permanently available in the Slacker Portable at no charge. For those that want even more control over their radio, Slacker also offers Premium Radio for as low as $7.50 per month. Premium Radio includes all the features of Basic Radio, and adds unlimited skipping, and the ability to save radio songs to the library on your Slacker Portable and play them whenever you want.

Each Slacker Portable is the same size and has the same features. You simply need to choose which capacity is right for you. The Slacker Portable comes in 15, 25, and 40 station capacities. You can see a comparison of all three Slacker Portables here.
 

Tech Specs
Player Dimensions
2.76 x .67 x 4.2" (70mm x 16.5mm x 109mm)
Player Weight
4.6 oz (130g)
Screen Dimensions
4" diagonal (16 x 9 aspect ratio)
Screen Resolution
480 x 272 TFT-LCD
Audio Formats
MP3, WMA
Wi-Fi
802.11B/G
Battery Type
Li-Polymer
Battery Life
Up to 10 hours
Battery Charge Time
about 3 hours

 
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Value 4
Performance 4
Ease of Use 4
Overall Satisfaction 4
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5 of 5 Portable Personal Radio, MP3 player and more Wednesday, August 13, 2008
netrunner9 from Hammond, LA  

The portable player is simply great. Sound quality perfect. The controls are quick to master. The radio stations included have a great selection of music. Then it gets better, you can easily make your own custom stations. I like hearing new music, finding new bands. I am completely done with standard radio playing repeated garbage. I don't have time to search through endless mp3s "bands and songs" on itunes or hunting for something new on the internet. Just create a new station with your fav bands and set the DJ feature to discover new stuff. You can then ban/fav the song simply by press the button on the side. You will feel like you have a personal DJ on the radio playing just for you. It reminds me of listening to the radio for the first time not just hearing it. As a bonus you get to read reviews and info about the artist and album, now playing. The only con i have is that the touch switch is a little to sensitive which i turned off and use the easier to use thumb control wheel. The display bright, clear and colorful. Controls simple. Easy to setup. Even wifi to update your music collection on the go. They start around $200 bucks and go up. Even better the service is free.
 
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5 of 5 Fantastic device. Monday, August 04, 2008
Jacob E. from Cold Spring, KY  
The other review is older, I'm guessing he/she was having problems with the old firmware. I had some problems loading up my music before the new firmware installed. The device installs it for you automatically so it's no hassle for you. I love my Slacker Portable (I'm listening to it right now). If you're familiar with the Slacker online service you know how great it is at playing music that you love. I get to listen to songs that I like, new and old, everywhere. I love how it gives you the artist biography and an album review for each song it puts on the player. It's really interesting to read the back stories to some of your favorite artists, and I find it very fun to read up on bands that I haven't heard of after I discover a song that they play. I am using the basic service now but plan on upgrading to the premium service within the next day or two. The basic service plays ads, but trust me, it doesn't play many ads AT ALL (in fact, it seems to play much fewer ads than the online service does). I have listened to this thing for HOURS, and I only recall hearing one ad this entire time. And it wasn't even an ad, it was just some girl talking about Usher's name for like 20 seconds. The Slacker Portable is truly an amazing music experience that you just can't get anywhere else. I've discovered so many new songs and artists through it. It really is a must for a music junkie. I can't possibly recommend it enough. (p.s. GREAT gift idea!)
 
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2 of 5 Not satisfied Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A Customer from Utah  
This device should still be in beta. Repeats the same music over and over. Not satisfied and now trying to figure out how to return it.
 
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