Slacker Radio Makes Its Way to the iPhone

Last week at CES, streaming Internet radio company Slacker Radio released a version of their app for the BlackBerry. Meanwhile, the company said the iPhone version would appear as soon as it was approved by Apple . Well, on Tuesday Slacker Radio for the iPhone made it through the arduous App Store approval process.

I could say it was because the App Store reviewers were slackers, but I won't.

Slacker is an Internet radio service. Besides their own player, the Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player, Slacker has a web player and is also available on Logitech Squeezebox and Transporter network music players, the aforementioned BlackBerrys, Sony BRAVIA Internet Video Link and now on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Features include:

• Free music library featuring millions of songs
• High-quality stereo playback from any wireless connection
• Over 100 professionally programmed genre stations
• Create custom artist stations
• Fine tune stations to play more of the music you like
• View artist biographies and photos
• View album art and reviews
• "Peek Ahead" artist and album preview
• Pause and skip songs
• Rate songs as favorites
• Ban the songs and artists you don't like

While free (ad-supported), Slacker offers two levels of subscription services.

• Slacker Radio Plus subscribers have unlimited skips, no advertisements, and the ability to turn off DJ’s on stations. This is available as a 12-month subscription for $47.88 (which works out to $3.99 per month)
  

• Slacker Radio Premium includes everything in Slacker Radio Plus, but also adds the ability to save songs to their music library online and on the Slacker Portable Player. Songs stored in the library can be played an unlimited number of times at will. There are three different payment options for the Slacker Premium Radio: 3 months for $29.97, 6 months for $49.99, and 12 months for $89.99.
  

Jonathan Sasse, Vice President of Marketing at Slacker said:

"Our priority at Slacker has always been to give music lovers the best experience effortlessly. We leveraged the large touch screen of the iPhone to create a unique music and artist discovery experience that looks and feels as great as it sounds."

Unfortunately for iPhone users, Slacker radio caching, which allows you to listen even when offline, is a BlackBerry exclusive. Jealous, much?