Slacker Portable Player available for ordering |
Slacker, an Internet radio company which lets you enjoy music culled from over 100 professionally programmed stations, rolled out its premium pay for service today. As part of that roll out it also debuted its portable music player. The new Slacker Portable Player is available in several storage sizes for pricing ranging from around $200 to $300.
The Slacker Portable Player allows you to access Slacker’s library of music drawn from all of the major record labels and thousands of independent record labels via wireless Internet or USB. It allows you to refresh the personalized stations you’ve created based on your music tastes while letting you check out associated artist profiles, album reviews and cover art on the 4″ color display.
Battery life on this portable music player is estimated at around ten hours. You can also play your own MP3s and WMAs on the Slacker Portable Player. It should be available by mid-December.
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I don’t expect this to be an iPod killer, or even a Zune killer. But i really think the Slacker portable is really just touching upon a different segment of the market. I have been using the slacker web player since it’s release in March and have to say if the hardware is upto par with the software then they will have a great combo. Also noted that if they can get the third party support then i think they will have a good following. Slacker also stated that it would not be affected by the recent internet radio royalty price hikes (for now). 10 more days, and we’ll let the reviews come rolling in. Also check out Seems to be a good start to a social backing. I’ll try to post an unboxing and complete review as soon as it arrives.