Grace Digital Lends Color Displays And More To Three Internet Radios

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Give Grace Digital due credit for trying, folks, but the scrappy provider of internet capable radios has been hard at work ahead of the CES 2011 show, where they’re planning to show these off for the very first time. It helps, of course, that we’ve got some advance word on what you should expect when you get an eyeful of these.

It’s been a while since we’ve had the opportunity to talk about much out of Grace Digital, so I’m glad to see they’re still working. First out of the gate is the Mondo, offering a 3.5 inch touch screen display with an actual alarm clock contained within (even down to the snooze button, an all too necessary feature for any alarm clock owner), as well as a USB port. This one’s set to cost $169.99.

Second up, we’ve got the Bravado X, which offers a 2.7 inch touch screen display, RCA input and output, and a USB connector. This one costs just ten bucks more than the Mondo at $179.99.

Last up is the Solo Touch, which now boasts a 4.3 inch touch screen display with additional remote, an Ethernet connection, RCA outputs, and a headphone jack when you don’t want to wake anybody up. That one will set you back $249.99.

All three of these have color displays (which wasn’t the case previously), and they can be controlled via an iPhone app. Plus, you’ll get a wide variety of content available with these–apparently each is capable of receiving a laundry list of radio items like Pandora, Sirius XM, WeatherBug, CBS Radio and a whole slew of others.

How subscription issues and the like are resolved on these is a bit unclear, and apparently some have had issues in the past with the touch screen’s functionality, but hopefully seeing these at CES will change a few minds and win some people over. I’m not a subscription radio user myself, but it’s not the worst of ideas, and an easy way to access the content can’t hurt.