Slacker Radio Available Now for webOS Smartphones

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So you like to listen to Internet radio, don’t you? Do you happen to own a webOS-powered phone? In case you answered yes to these two simple questions then you’ll be happy to hear that there’s an app for that, no pun intended. Slacker Radio has now a free mobile application for webOS smartphones so go ahead and download yours already!

The official announcement came today and the application is waiting to be downloaded at Slacker Radio’s official website. All you have to do is point your mobile browser to it and get the webOS application.

The mobile app is compatible with all current webOS phones: Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. U.S. and Canadian webOS phones owners can download the app and start listening to their favorite Internet radio stations straight from their Palm smartphone.

Here’s a quick list of features that come with Slacker Radio for webOS:

• Music library featuring millions of songs
• High-quality stereo playback from any available wireless connection
• Create custom artist stations based on artists or songs
• Over 120 professionally programmed and customizable genre stations
• View artist biographies and photos
• View album art and read reviews
• “Peek Ahead” artist and album preview
• Rate songs as favorites
• Ban songs and artists from stations

Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker commented on Slacker Radio:

Slacker offers music lovers an effortless way to discover and enjoy music on their computers, smartphones or through their home entertainment devices. Our free app for Palm webOS enables music fans play their favorite Slacker Radio stations wherever they go.

Slacker is certainly a service worth considering, with 120 expert-programmed Slacker genres and over 10,000 artist stations Slacker Radio seems to be the place to go for listening to music while on the go. Sure you’ll need an unlimited data plan to enjoy all that Internet radio but at least you won’t have to deal with iTunes anymore.