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Slacker Radio 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is now available. For the first
time ever, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can cache their favorite
Slacker music stations to listen anywhere – whether they are connected
to a wireless network or not and without incurring data charges.

iPod touch and iPad
owners can now listen to Slacker Radio beyond Wi-Fi networks and take
their favorite tunes wherever they go without having to manage playlists
or transfer music from their home computers. Free Slacker Basic Radio
listeners will be able to cache stations for up to 14 days, providing
the opportunity to try this new feature on their iPhone, iPad or iPod
touch, risk-free.

With access to a song library
that is nearly four times the size of the leading competitor, iPhone,
iPad and iPod touch owners can use Slacker Basic Radio and Slacker Radio
Plus to create their own Personal Radio stations or listen to and
personalize over 120 expert-programmed genre stations.

Slacker Basic Radio and Slacker Radio Plus also give access to artist
biographies and album reviews, station fine-tuning and custom artist
stations. In addition to marking songs as favorites, listeners can also
ban songs and artists to create perfect custom radio stations.

Slacker Radio 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with Slacker
Radio Plus:

• Cache stations to iPhone, iPhone 3G,
  iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPod touch**
• Enjoy Slacker radio stations
  even without a wireless network
• Greatly improved battery life
• Unlimited
  song skipping
• Ad-free listening
• Complete song
  lyrics(+)
• Unlimited song requests for creating stations
• Music
  library featuring millions of songs
• No monthly listening limits
• High-quality
  stereo playback
• Over 120 professionally programmed genre
  stations
• Create custom stations based on artists or songs
• Fine
  tune stations on-the-fly 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

iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPod touch is available
immediately in the iTunes app store or by visiting s="sgi(saccount);s.linkTrackVars=’prop5,eVar3,prop15′;s.prop5=’External

Link’;s.eVar3=s.prop5;s.prop15=’95506404′;s.tl(this,’o',’ExternalLink’);” target=”<em>blank” href=”http://www.slacker.com/”>www.slacker.com from
the mobile web browser. Slacker Radio Plus is available for as low as .99 per month and can be purchased at s="sgi(s_account);s.linkTrackVars=’prop5,eVar3,prop15′;s.prop5=’External

Link’;s.eVar3=s.prop5;s.prop15=’95506404′;s.tl(this,’o',’ExternalLink’);” target=”<em>blank” href=”http://www.slacker.com/”>www.slacker.com or
within the app by selecting the “Upgrade” button. Please visit s="sgi(s_account);s.linkTrackVars=’prop5,eVar3,prop15′;s.prop5=’External

Link’;s.eVar3=s.prop5;s.prop15=’95506404′;s.tl(this,’o',’ExternalLink’);” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.slacker.com/iphone”>www.slacker.com/iphone
on the web for more details. iPad users can install and use Slacker
Radio 2.0 in compatibility mode, which includes station caching for
off-line listening as well as all other features of the 2.0 application.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

We can’t vouch for anything here, but the inventory shot you see above apparently shows the HTC Intruder on AT&T. Maybe it’s yet another name in the Liberty/Aria lovefest, giving us a proper threesome of rumor goodness. Or maybe it’s an entirely different phone. Or maybe it’s a last gasp of Windows Mobile. Or (gasp) maybe it’s some way early entry for Windows Phone 7. Or maybe it’s something like the HTC Smart, which has a Sense-type UI but is neither WinMo nor Android.

Point is, it’s early yet, and this is all we have to go on. Also no way to tell whether that 9 retail price/9 contract price is real, or just a placeholder. Any AT&T peeps out there wanna help shed some light on this? You know where to find us. [TjCrew via Unwired View]

Update: OK. We’re already hearing that this will be an Android 2.1 device, about the size of a Coke can (presumably in two dimensions only). Also, Omegaglory23 points out in the comments that this is a Radio Shack inventory screen.

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It looks like the well-reviewed HTC EVO 4G is an overnight success, so successful, it’s stressing  the Sprint activation system and selling out in some stores

The super smartphone that is first to support 4G went on sale this morning at Sprint, Radio Shack and Best Buy. 

Our local Radio Shack Store sold-out of the HTC EVO 4G by 9:00 am this morning. Aother Radio Shack store sold out later around 11:00 pm. Some stores experienced activation problems.

There were around 30 people in line at the Pasadena Sprint Store in Old Pasadena this morning waiting for the HTC EVO 4G, a store rep told us,  by lunch time there were four people in line and that their stock wouldn’t last until the end of today.


MicroSD Glitch Fixed with OTA Update:

Users have reported
problems accessing the microSD card. HTC spokesman Keith Nowak told
Engadget that HTC identified the cause of problem of “insufficient file
permissions”  and other errors when attempting to write to the included 8
GB microSD on the HTC EVO 4G and
there’s an OTA fix coming “very shortly.

The Over the Air fix
version 1.32.651.6 is currently being pushed out to the HTC EVO 4G.
The1.32.651.6
update also fixes a potential security
vulnerability. Users can manually install he update, go to Settings >
System
Updates > HTC software update and follow the instructions.

You can read HTC EVO 4G User Guide or the  Getting Started Guide, online

.HTC EVO 4G
reviewers called the Android super phone, “everything a
geek could dream of,” “a beautiful and powerful window to the world,”
and the touchscreen “mesmerizing.” The major new features of the HTC
EVO 4G include a huge 4.3 touchscreen, 4G (WiMAX faster data
access), data and voice at the same time at 4G, and ability to work as a
Wi-Fi hotspot.

Click here for Wirefly’s HTC EVO price.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

There’s no denying that the hot Android keyboard of the moment is Swype.  Pre-loaded on a handful of devices (Cliq XT, myTouch 3G Slide), it is one of those apps that stays with you.  Once you’ve had a chance to use Swype, all other keyboards feel slow and rather vanilla.  Fortunately for some, Swype has released a beta of their app to a lucky group of testers.  Today sees them announcing a new version of the beta and adding a load of improvements and tweaks.

Below is a list of changes found in this version of Swype beta.  Some are going to be more noticeable than others.  Take for instance the automatic apostrophe insertion for words like won’t, don’t, and wasn’t.  Personally, I am very glad to see that make the list.  Others, like bug fixes are generally hidden from plain sight.

• Added better context sensitivity for the “magic button” (go/search/enter/smiley)
• Added automatic apostrophe insertion for contractions (e.g. won’t, don’t, wasn’t, etc)
• Added the Italian language dictionary
• Improved sensing of field type to prevent the display and addition of passwords to the UDB (user dictionary)
• Improved suppression of auto-spacing in fields such as URLs and email addresses
• Updated the built-in dictionary to include several common words that were previously missing
• Rewrote some settings descriptions to be more clear on their functionality
• Fixed licensing issue causing “Limited Functionality” errors when rebooting devices running Android 2.0 and later
• Fixed licensing issue causing some users to receive an “Incorrect ID” error when installing Swype
• Fixed a bug where manually typing some words with word-prediction enabled would cause Swype to crash
• Fixed a bug which caused some words added to the UDB to erroneously override other words when word-prediction is enabled
• Many other minor bug fixes!

Hopefully we’ll be seeing swype come out of beta and released as a standalone app/keyboard replacement.  How much would you be willing to pay for swype on your phone?

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NOTE: Update Released for Swype Beta originally appeared on AndroidGuys. If you are reading this elsewhere, it was done without the consent of the author.

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