I was at a Best Buy yesterday and was blown away that the new Slacker Portable is now being carried there. That's kinda a big deal. Kudos to Slacker.

What was the price?

__________________
Sirius Subscriber since 12-25-04
MBP 13"(mid 2009), SL 2, VZW BB Storm
MM@digitalradiocentral.com
"They pulled up the welcome mat, so many times they hurt their back. As sure as clocks are bleeding time, we'll show up early just to wait in line." - Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse

I can't remember. I should probably look into one. I know it's a competing technology but I don't want to be too stubborn that I'm not flexible in keeping up.

I do remember someone telling me though when we were there that it would be given a display unit shortly.

I am excited that Slacker is going to offer its service on BB phones. Supposedly it will work almost the same as on a Slacker Portable.

Peep it.

From the pictures I've seen of the unit, it looks like a BlackBerry without the keyboard...almost like the new BlackBerry Storm.

The Slacker site lists it at $199 for the 4GB (25 stations) and $249 for the 8GB (40 stations), so it will probably be the same at BB.

I'm really tempted to get the Slacker Portable.

The idea of it sounds amazing, and I like the online portion of it and sites like it, like pandora, LAST.FM, and more.

BUT, after playing around for a while, I think I might get bored with having stations that have songs I may not like. I think I just like the idea of a new gadget at the moment, because the more I think about it, the more I wonder how much I'll enjoy the stations it makes for you. I like playing with it now and again. But next to Sirius and my Zune, it'd be hard to find time to use it and get the monies worth. If it were the only device I had, then maybe.

Arrrgh. Decisions decisions.

__________________
Owner of:
Stiletto 2 With Best of XM
Subscriber since 12-25-05!
Follow me on twitter.

I have a freind that has it and it is pretty bad ass-i think that internet radio is the next great medium-Satrad was good but internet radio has much more potential as far as music goes now anyway.

It does in terms of bandwidth. It does not in terms of coverage.

__________________
XM subscriber since 2005/12/05:

• Pioneer Airware (LIFE, wife)
• Tao (son)
• Pontiac G5 (XM Canada)

Sirius subscriber since 2007/12/06:

• Stilletto 2 (LIFE)
• Premium Internet
• TTR1

Creative Labs 32Gb Zen owner since 2009/02/02
Slacker Plus subscriber since 2010/01/15
Apple iPhone4 (4.0.2) owner since 2010/08/16

Me im not all that worried about having it in my car-i have so many songs on my mp3 player that i wont have to suffer Fm-at work is the place i need it most-however i think in a few years it will be everywhere