Sirius XM Now Available for Android Owners
Sirius XM Now Available for Android Owners
Posted 05/28/2010 at 10:46am
| by Paul Lilly
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Android smartphone owners can finally do something iPhone and BlackBerry users have already been able to do: listen to Sirius XM radio on the go from their mobile phone. You won't find the app in the Android Market, and will instead need to navigate here to grab the apk file. Once installed, Sirius issues the following warning:
"This product will use a large amount of data and you are responsible for all data charges. Please contact you carrier's customer service to confirm / add an unlimited data plan," the app discloses.
We tried installing the app on our slow-as-molasses HTC Dream/G1 smartphone and it worked without a hitch. Assuming you're on a good connection, the stations and songs download quickly and begin playing within a second or two. The best part about this is Android's ability to multi-task, so you can fire up Sirius XM in the background while you go about your other smartphone business. We can also see this being a hit on upcoming Android tablets.
Anyone else plan on toting this app around?
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anc51699
May 28, 2010 at 12:50pm
I haven't gotten to play around with it that much yet, but I do have it installed, and it appears to work great. This was the one app that I was missing on my droid, and it's great to finally have it. I was getting real tired of Pandora and Slacker because they never played any of the songs that I wanted to hear. With XM, it's nice having an actuall DJ go through and choosing songs to play, who does a much better job at song selection than a computer. Being able to multitask while listening to XM is great too, especially since before I used it on my ipod touch which wasn't possible at all. As for the data warning, to my knowledge, Verizon only offers an unlimited data plan with the droid, so there's no problem with me there. Now if the Froyo Update would come out for the droid so I can get Flash with it, I'll be all set.
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