Slacker 8 GB Portable Radio with 40 Stations (Black)

List Price: $299.99
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Manufacturer: Slacker
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Features:

• 8 GB Slacker Radio and MP3 player with 40-station capacity
• Built-in Wi-Fi auto-refreshes Slacker Radio stations; music plays whether or not connected
• Plays your existing music collection (MP3, WMA, and AAC)
• 4-inch color LCD displays album art, reviews, artist bios and more
• Removable, rechargeable battery

Accessories:

• Macally Docking, Charging, and FM Transmitter Station for iPod (Black)
• Solio Universal Hybrid Solar Charger (Pink)
• Kensington Car Mount for iPod; iPhone 1G, 3G; and MP3 Players (Black)
• Bushnell Travel Tunes 1.0 Outdoor Speaker System for iPod and MP3 Players (Black)
• Macally FM Transmitter and Charger for MP3 Players

Editorial Reviews:

Take your personalized Slacker Radio stations with you anywhere you go. Built-in Wi-Fi auto-refreshes up to 40 Slacker Radio stations with new content, and the music plays anytime--whether or not you are connected.

With the Slacker Portable, the world's first-ever personal radio player, you can now take your favorite music with you, and discover new music along the way.

Personalized Radio

Effortless
Create your own unique radio experience with Slacker Personal Radio. You know what you like--Slacker knows how to deliver it. Slacker's Internet radio offering is built on the expertise of DJs from all over the country, and just by listening, you make Slacker even smarter at delivering more music that you love.

Music Discovery
Perfect your listening experience using Slacker's exclusive personalization tools. With the buttons, tell Slacker Radio which songs are your favorites--and which ones you never want to hear again. Fine-tune any station--get more hits, or request older artists over new, for instance. Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker Portable. View them on the 4-inch color LCD.

Advanced Radio Clocks
Slacker DJs operate using a proven method of picking and mixing songs to deliver excellent musical variety that complements your tastes. This patent-pending DJ technology is embedded in the Slacker Portable to create the very best radio stations. The more you listen, the better it performs to deliver new music you'll love.

Choose from more than 100 expertly programmed radio stations, or custom-build your own.

Get new music instantly from the vast Slacker music library by connecting at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi spots across the country.

Slacker Basic Radio: Free

Plus, it's all completely legal. Slacker has unique licensing agreements with thousands of record labels to give you free access to a variety of music. By working directly with the record labels, Slacker gets the latest content to ensure your radio stations always stay current.

Ad Supported
To offer your favorite music for free, the Slacker Basic Radio service might play one to two ads an hour. That's significantly fewer ads than traditional radio, so you can relax and easily enjoy your favorite music.

Upgrade to Slacker Premium Radio

Next, Premium subscribers have access to Slacker Request Song, which lets you add your favorite artists' songs to your station. Then, use Slacker's fine-tuning controls to indicate how often those requested songs should play.

Third, Premium subscribers have no limits on the number of songs they skip, letting listeners create the exact music experience they want. (Basic listeners are limited to six skips per hour, per station.)

And fourth, as a Premium subscriber, you can save your favorite songs with the touch of a button. Saved songs are added to your library so that you can listen to them any time. You also can save your favorites to your PC using the Slacker Software Player. It's the ultimate personal radio experience.

Slacker Premium Radio at a glance:

• Just $7.50 per month
• No advertisements
• Request songs
• Unlimited skipping of songs
• Save favorites

Slacker Radio: It's Everywhere

Pocket DJ
The same personalized listening experience you love on Slacker.com is available wherever you go on the Slacker Portable. Slacker DJs hand pick songs for your player, and you can use the buttons on the Slacker Portable to further customize your stations. The more you listen, the better the music gets.

The Slacker Portable gives you uninterrupted access to your music wherever you are. Thousands of songs are stored on the Slacker Portable to fill up all of your personalized radio stations. That means you can listen to your stations, even if you are nowhere near a Wi-Fi connection.

Refresh On the Go
The Slacker Portable automatically can add new music at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. Each time you connect, songs that were hand-picked by Slacker DJs are added to your device. Plus, you can add new stations to your Slacker Portable from any PC or Mac with an Internet connection.

Built in MP3 Player

On-the-Go Playlists
Create personalized playlists with your MP3s using the intuitive controls on the Slacker Portable. Enjoy the favorites you own in any order you want. As a Slacker Premium Radio subscriber, you can mix your MP3s with saved radio tracks to fashion playlists absolutely unique to you.

Software Player
Play your own personal collection of MP3s on the your portable with Slacker Software Player. Simply plug your portable into your PC to transfer songs and refresh your radio stations. Also, such enhanced features as high-resolution, full-screen album art and a variety of visualizations track to the music on the portable's 4-inch color LCD.

What's in the Box
Slacker 8 GB Portable Radio with 40 Stations (Black), USB cable, power supply, earphones