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XM & Samsung to introduce MP3 Sat Radios

J

johndavis

Here's the news release:

<a target="_blank" href=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=115922&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=734696&highlight>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=115922&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=734696&highlight</a>

Shipping by year end. This part sounded cool:

Using the Samsung XM/digital audio players, XM subscribers can identify selected songs heard on the XM Satellite Radio service for purchase through a music downloading service. The Samsung players also allow users to create and manage customized playlists, combining both personal digital music files and recorded XM programming.<P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
> Using the Samsung XM/digital audio players, XM subscribers
> can identify selected songs heard on the XM Satellite Radio
> service for purchase through a music downloading service.
> The Samsung players also allow users to create and manage
> customized playlists, combining both personal digital music
> files and recorded XM programming.

Wow! This has been rumored for a long time, but finally we have a "satellite iPod". Hopefully, Samsung/XM will remember that it's the usability that helped the original iPod take off, and design this to be easy for the average person to use.
 
> > Using the Samsung XM/digital audio players, XM subscribers
>
> > can identify selected songs heard on the XM Satellite
> Radio
> > service for purchase through a music downloading service.
> > The Samsung players also allow users to create and manage
> > customized playlists, combining both personal digital
> music
> > files and recorded XM programming.
>
> Wow! This has been rumored for a long time, but finally we
> have a "satellite iPod". Hopefully, Samsung/XM will
> remember that it's the usability that helped the original
> iPod take off, and design this to be easy for the average
> person to use.
>

More details: The click to download feature will be tied in with Roxio's Napster service. You mark the song you like when you hear it on XM, and the next time you dock the radio it downloads the song from a co-branded XM+Napster service.

Panero was asked yesterday if XM and Samsung were going to put XM into a phone. He didn't say yes but he didn't say no: "We're looking forward to growing the relationship into other devices."
<P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
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