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Pandora is Coming!!

http://tomconrad.net/2009/06/16/pandora-for-android-its-coming/
Finally we will be able to share in the love.

oh ive been waiting since i got the phone.
One thing i hope doesnt happen. I had pandora on a winmo device and sound quality was horrible i hope thats not the case for us now.

I hope it comes soon. Just googled pandora,tried it,and now I love it. Does have a .jar of of a mobile version already out? I'd like to see if I can get that to work while i wait.

I think it does. youll have to do a seach on it though.

otto888 said:
I hope it comes soon. Just googled pandora,tried it,and now I love it. Does have a .jar of of a mobile version already out? I'd like to see if I can get that to work while i wait.
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I tried using the J2me converter in the market but this are my results on this thread. I have the JAR hosted if someone wants to give it a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=498540&highlight=pandora&page=2

Hopefully it will stream ok on EDGE. Im excited about this one!!!!

Open the box now!1!
Oh yummy. I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve, can't wait to open pandora's box. One app I've been dying to get my hands on since I got a G1. Hack away at that jarfile.

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http://tomconrad.net/2009/06/16/pandora-for-android-its-coming/
Finally we will be able to share in the love.
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Tell me why I should use this over Last.Fm
I have been using last.fm for a few years now, its the single best thing about XBMC. What does pandora do that last.fm does not?
Last.Fm bitrate is very clear and stable, android players take a bit to buffer but this is related to hardware not software. It has just about EVERYTHING I have ever searched for and I have searched for some little known punkrock bands.

The thing I hate about pandora on my friends iphone is the damn skip limit. When I showed him last.fm he was amazed I could skip tracks forever.

evilkorn said:
The thing I hate about pandora on my friends iphone is the damn skip limit. When I showed him last.fm he was amazed I could skip tracks forever.
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So what your saying is.... There is no reason to be excited at all. Unless you have never used last.fm that is.

If there's a skip limit I'll stick with last.fm, that's a deal killer so no thanks to this and eyemeem

don't overlook the most important aspect of Pandora...
The Music Genome Project, an ambitious attempt at mapping the things that have influenced the artists we all listen to. I've been exposed to great music I likely would not have heard had it not been for The MGP.

atleast last.fm works in the uk, just tried pandora website now and it says no longer available outside the US

MLB At Bat 2010

Not sure if anyone else noticed, or is excited like I am, but MLB At Bat is now on the market. Royals fan here. It's $14.99, so a little steep but we will see how long I can hold out from buying it. Just wanted to bring this to anyones attention who might be excited as me. Go Royals, where staying out of last place is a success.

Question to anyone who has bought.
This obviously is the "app" which I presume MLB has has built in "Gameday Audio" of some sort (which you can buy online at mlb.tv for the season.) Does anyone know if you can use your gmail and then sign in via a web browser on a computer to use, if you were say at a computer instead of your phone?...

nkchornets37 said:
Not sure if anyone else noticed, or is excited like I am, but MLB At Bat is now on the market. Royals fan here. It's $14.99, so a little steep but we will see how long I can hold out from buying it. Just wanted to bring this to anyones attention who might be excited as me. Go Royals, where staying out of last place is a success.
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KC Native here man, hell yea, someone make a summary and tell us if it is worth it.

I can't see it being worth $15. I can just go to the mobile site and get all the information I need for free. The game audio is a cool feature but if I'm not home to watch the game chances are wherever I am I can't listen to it.

Last years beta was the ****. I listened to the WS while on the road (Phils & Yanks fan here, so I was torn the entire series). Sure you can get all the stats & whatnot on a PC, but if you're not at your PC, the app was well worth it.
Unfortunately, the $14.99 price tag is WAY too steep for this. Although you can listen to the games, if your phone goes to sleep, or if you get a text, or do anything that pulls you away from the app, the stream stops & you have to re-initialize. PITA when you're multi-tasking on your device.
Now if they cut a cool $10 off the price, I'd consider it. I'd consider it even more if that $4.99 price tag gave me free updates of the app every year. Here's a question though (and I'm going to try this myself): If anyone still has the beta, have you tried installing it to see if it still works? If it does, what makes MLB think I'm gonna pay them $14.99 for an app I got for free, FROM THEM?!
Just a thought...

I have this app, only worth the $15 if your a hardcore baseball fan. Everything seems to work a lot smoother then last years beta though.

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Last years beta was the ****. I listened to the WS while on the road (Phils & Yanks fan here, so I was torn the entire series). Sure you can get all the stats & whatnot on a PC, but if you're not at your PC, the app was well worth it.
Unfortunately, the $14.99 price tag is WAY too steep for this. Although you can listen to the games, if your phone goes to sleep, or if you get a text, or do anything that pulls you away from the app, the stream stops & you have to re-initialize. PITA when you're multi-tasking on your device.
Now if they cut a cool $10 off the price, I'd consider it. I'd consider it even more if that $4.99 price tag gave me free updates of the app every year. Here's a question though (and I'm going to try this myself): If anyone still has the beta, have you tried installing it to see if it still works? If it does, what makes MLB think I'm gonna pay them $14.99 for an app I got for free, FROM THEM?!
Just a thought...
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I don't have last years beta anymore but I would be shocked if it worked. The app is called At Bat 2010. They fully intend to make sure it does not work next season. Last year's probably can't get to this season's schedule.
I bought it because I'll be able to use it at work where I can't pick up AM radio and have no android slingbox app. It sucks that iphone gets live video and the others don't. I wouldn't use the live video much since they blackout the local games, but that would at least justify the price. The video highlights are good quality. Much better than what I saw of the NBA app.

robeggen said:
I don't have last years beta anymore but I would be shocked if it worked. The app is called At Bat 2010. They fully intend to make sure it does not work next season. Last year's probably can't get to this season's schedule.
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I have last year's Beta. When you load it, only works up until the last game of the WS last year and sometimes the winter league games pop up but the beta is useless.

BSDADON said:
I can't see it being worth $15. I can just go to the mobile site and get all the information I need for free. The game audio is a cool feature but if I'm not home to watch the game chances are wherever I am I can't listen to it.
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This app is awesome and worth the time installing it. Get all the games with the push of a button, including audio, stats and video highlights after the game. Well worth the investment IMO

The blackberry playbook is amazing!

Got the chance to play with the blackberry playbook and this thing is amazingly fast almost as fast as ipad2. Multitasking is mind boggling i tried running 4 hd videos simultaneously and never had a single hickup. I love the interface a lot better than an ipad and android. Hulu works in the browser as its a full web browsing experience. The lcd screen is as good as the ipad if not better as the color is more saturated the only downside is the fewer apps available. The dual core texas instrument 1ghz processor with parallel multitasking does makes the difference its so much fun to use.

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Got the chance to play with the blackberry playbook and this thing is amazingly fast almost as fast as ipad2. Multitasking is mind boggling i tried running 4 hd videos simultaneously and never had a single hickup. I love the interface a lot better than an ipad and android. Hulu works in the browser as its a full web browsing experience. The lcd screen is as good as the ipad if not better as the color is more saturated the only downside is the fewer apps available. The dual core texas instrument 1ghz processor with parallel multitasking does makes the difference its so much fun to use.
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Curious, how does one run 4 HD videos at once?

Seems okay but still think I will opt out for the ipad2 just cause its more well put together tablet and it just works. Like the fact you will be able to run some android apps on it, don't like the fact that you MUST have an blackberry(with the bb data plan) to fully use the tablet at times.
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Hotshot205 said:
Seems okay but still think I will opt out for the ipad2 just cause its more well put together tablet and it just works. Like the fact you will be able to run some android apps on it, don't like the fact that you MUST have an blackberry(with the bb data plan) to fully use the tablet at times.
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I got the first gen iPad but the lack of full web functionality turned me off after a while. Not being able to view... practically half of the internet because of the lack of flash was a big thing for me. That and the fact that, while it's a great machine and great for what it does, it's kind of limited in what all it can really do.
iOS is boring; to me anyway. And after the initial magic and shine wore off... there was really nothing interesting to do with the device.

Yeah I think I am on the same boat. Ios is very limited. Looking into getting the playbook this weekend.

the camera video quality is awesome

Good,good,good

Indeed it is... Can't wait to get my hands on mine.
If anyone is looking for a tower defense game with a twist I suggest checking out Lonely Turret for the Blackberry Playbook (I know the dev ). I've tried the game out on a simulator and became addicted quickly - looking forward to trying it out on the actual playbook myself. But definitely give it a look if you have a playbook and want a good game.

Intesting. I had only heard bad things about the device until now. I wonder if they'll backpedal on the whole "you need a BB phone" fiasco. It really makes no ****ing sense.

CptAJ said:
Intesting. I had only heard bad things about the device until now. I wonder if they'll backpedal on the whole "you need a BB phone" fiasco. It really makes no ****ing sense.
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I don't think they'll quite go back on it; doing so would look bad for the company and show Co dimers a big feature they worked hard on just to To can in the end.
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So, coming from Blackberry World and posting from my Playbook, RIM has definitively said the Bridge requirement will be gone by mid June. The standalone PIM apps were demo'd multiple times. And, of course, a Sprint LTE version is coming then as well.
No specific date on the Android player yet, although it was demo'd live as well. The Android apps that were shown were brought over without assistance from the original devs and no source required. It's just a repackage of the apk.
This hardware is fantastic and QNX is blazing fast.

Yeah I really like the look of this tablet. Also all of the things that are flaws with it atm, seem to be getting ironed out by RIM soon. The intuitive way RIM have even done the controls for the Android player are awesome. The only thing I'd say is they could have brought it out in a 7" and 10" model just for choice as if you're really looking for compact, you could pickup the 7" but if you're looking at buying it for the media aspect you could just buy the 10". But it's RIM's first tablet so I can see why they only brought out the one size... Now to start saving.

Oh yeah I'm also wondering how RIM are going to handle the updating of Android apps. It would be cool if there was a program made that would convert the apk's to what ever file type is needed for the QNX OS.
Oh and of course, what hacking (if any) is going to be like. All to look forward to.

Sorry for the delayed response
A 10" version is planned. Expect it before the end of the calendar year.
Also, the .bar file format on the Playbook is not much different from a .apk file. It is just a compressed file with some metadata. All the developer has to do is unzip and rezip their current release essentially. I am sure there is a tool in the SDK for developers to rezip their app.
I would imagine it won't be long before an after the fact tool is available to users so they can take an apk from their phone and turn it into a bar file.

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A 10" version is planned. Expect it before the end of the calendar year.
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Do you know when QNX will be showing up on the smartphones ? I heard OS 7 will be mixed with it ( QNX ).

The Playbook definitely looks tempting, too bad you can't get it here in Australia plus the lack of a 10 incher now means I'm looking for a transformer
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Tempted but hav a xoom n nook plus kindle 2

purplebear said:
So, coming from Blackberry World and posting from my Playbook, RIM has definitively said the Bridge requirement will be gone by mid June. The standalone PIM apps were demo'd multiple times. And, of course, a Sprint LTE version is coming then as well.
No specific date on the Android player yet, although it was demo'd live as well. The Android apps that were shown were brought over without assistance from the original devs and no source required. It's just a repackage of the apk.
This hardware is fantastic and QNX is blazing fast.
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Well that's really good to hear. The sadly I haven't had any time to spend with the tablet itself but from what I have seen it looks like a great product.
The next time I'm around a best buy ill definitely drop by and take a look.
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GoogleChromeBook pc. A computer by Google

Google is unvailing its chromebook. (Yeah another piece of tecnology to help google reach its goal of World Domination)
Its said to boot in 8 seconds, eliminates backups and updates, and will Replace(kill) Windows.
What Do you think About It?
Also offtopic on my offtopic thread but will XDA support HDTVs that are web connected. Meaning will there be any developement.?

Most people have never heard of cloud computing so i predict a slow adoption rate and a very, very small market share.

Mine showed up totally unexpected yesterday. It's fast and different. Rooting is done by a switch near the battery. Comes with 100 mb (verizon) free for 2 years. However, got it working with AT&T today.
Would love it to be compatible with Android apps, however, it can be dual booted with Android or most any other OS.
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wrogerw said:
Mine showed up totally unexpected yesterday. It's fast and different. Rooting is done by a switch near the battery. Comes with 100 mb (verizon) free for 2 years. However, got it working with AT&T today.
Would love it to be compatible with Android apps, however, it can be dual booted with Android or most any other OS.
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You got an actual chromebook?! I'm assuming not a CR-48 as that was all supposed to be done ... and I keep hearing June 15th or whenever for the official ones ... ?
I'm exited to get my hands on one. I love my little CR-48 but it can be as slow as an old dog. The latest updates have really helped though, I notice the time it takes to reconnect to WiFi after sleep has been cut in half, if not more. I just think the single core kind of holds it back for the most part. Not a whole lot of difference from some of the newer specs I had seen, but apparently they are quite speedy. A dual core will do that, considering the OS itself is so lite - such a minor bump would obviously result in a pretty drastic performance boost.
The update with a more 'official' file manager and media playback was nice to see, if not late.
I'll never be pulled from my desktop, or even more proper notebooks, but the Chrome OS angle is definitely a neat and handy one at that. In terms of practicality, some things just aren't the same / comparable.
And I think the cloud term sort of swings people for a loop ... the cloud is essentially the internet. Obviously. I just think the term results in people over-thinking it. When you explain it like that people seem to 'get it' more.

As best as I can tell it's the CR-48. It has a codename of Mario. Non branded.
Cloud computing is a different paradigm than traditional. However with Dropbox, box.net and Sky drive, I have about 40gb of storage available.
There are some interesting sites on the web about Chromebook. The facinating (but somewhat confusing) thing about the entire concept is the lack of a "desktop". Running everything from a browser is clunky.
I am going to re-check my CB to see what it's packed with.
I was pleased that I can use my AT&T sim and that I am not married the Verizon. Would love to use as a phone... better yet, will be trying to dual boot Android to use the apps available.
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Yeah sounds like a CR-48. Lucky guy, heard they ended shipment a while ago. I love the look of the unbranded notebook myself, totally sleek and totally sexy.
Finding workarounds for most tasks can be a little overwhelming, but once you spend some time looking around you get some good suggestions from people on what may be a good method / alternative.
I like the idea myself, a lite and speedy OS that doesn't require 'protection,' fast boots and returns from sleep at an amazing rate and also not having all sorts of **** shoved down your throat.
It's obviously not going to be a legitimate replacement for all, but as a secondary notebook it can hold its own. And for those that have netbooks for simple and not so demanding tasks, this could easily replace their devices. 'Cloud computing' isn't as complicated, or daunting, as some want to make it out to be.
Just another option for the people, and something I could see being pretty successful for a select group / market share.
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I haz a cr-48 (so does Sparky) and I really love it! I got it working with my T-mo SIM card but I usually just use it with my wife-eyes...
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Onlive Viewer App available! Works on Nook Color

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138194
Get the app there. It's pretty cool for spectating.
The PLAYER app is going to release later this year in the late summer or fall according to Onlive.
Can't wait for that!

Pinesal said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138194
Get the app there. It's pretty cool for spectating.
The PLAYER app is going to release later this year in the late summer or fall according to Onlive.
Can't wait for that!
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THANKS for this! Been waiting seems like forever....

Thanks for the link! This is one of the most interesting things I've seen on my tablet... Now I know I miss the health packs in Duke Nukem without buying the game...LOL

Pinesal said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138194
Get the app there. It's pretty cool for spectating.
The PLAYER app is going to release later this year in the late summer or fall according to Onlive.
Can't wait for that!
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Wow...thanks for the link...works perfectly...awesome how the newest things going for Android I always seem to find thru my Nook, and I usually get more things running on that, before my EVO...(Netflix for example....running for 3 weeks on my Nook before I got the Evo version figured out....Anyway, I'm sure that there's a workaround without waiting for a player .apk to be released....If the client is any Windows or Mac, as it says on their homepage, I suspect using a browser with the Nook in full desktop mode (like Maxthon for tablets) and a hacked version of Flash (like the ones that popped up when Netflix first arrived, which of course I made copies of, lol) would be perfectly sufficient..I'll give it a shot later tonight after work...post any results if anyone else gets further with this, please....Thanks again...
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very cool, works perfectly ty

Some notes on the Onlive viewer app
Onlive uses at least two different quality streams.
Spectating (which is all you can do right now) uses a low quality stream. When you are playing a game, you get connected to a high quality stream where game look near local.
The Onlive player app will release this summer or fall and will be compatible with a universal wireless controller that will be compatible with most tablets and phones.
There is at least one game coming out for Onlive that will have exclusive tablet controls in addition to standard controls. The game is called From Dust and was shown at E3.
Also a browser with a 10Gbps connection will be on Onlive this summer or fall too.