Cost to build a Wi-Fi radio drops to as little as under $15

[vsa]

CSR has just launched RadioPro, a WiFi internet radio example design based on the company’s UniFi single-chip WiFi technology. RadioPro provides wireless streaming of internet radio via WiFi, without the need for a PC and can support over 10,000 radio stations through a dedicated internet radio portal. With a bill of materials (BOM) of less than $15, CSR’s RadioPro is the lowest cost internet radio solution available today, and comes with the added advantage of being software upgradeable. Already in use by a number of lead customers, radios using CSR’s RadioPro will be available in stores in time for Christmas. The relentless assault on the dominance of traditional radio continues and perhaps accelerates.

CSR’s customers include industry leaders such as Apple, Dell, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TomTom and Toshiba.

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[Starbucks]

I like to check that out...but the problem with todays portable internet radios is that sound quality is pretty poor or tinny. Put it this way...there just marketing these radios for wireless, go almost anywhere radios without adding sound quality to them. Plus there not loud or spatial enough.