Wednesday, May 23rd 2007 by Chris Davies


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Want mobile Pandora but don’t want to shell out for a Sprint contract?  Then you’ll likely be interested in the music company’s Zing prototype, a customised SanDisk device running the track prediction software.  TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington got to play with one, finding it “longer and thinner” than the SanDisk Sansa Connect and otherwise very mysterious.

 Pandora SanDisk Zing WiFi prototype

 Pandora Zing screenshots

There’s still no decision on whether the device will feature a hard-drive.  Now that could be a deal breaker for people in areas not well served by blanket WiFi; while internal storage would add bulk, weight and price, it would also allow for a temporary cache of music for those times you wander out of coverage.  In that sense, the Sprint service makes more sense, perhaps, since their Power Vision network is far more pervasive than WiFi.

TechCrunch [via Gizmodo]

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  1.  PhoneDiscuss's Alan Smith   View all comments by PhoneDiscuss’s Alan Smith  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma Quote

    Wao,
    I wish this is a mobile phone too. The design is just too similiar to Microsoft Zune music player. Are they releated somehow? or This is actually a Microsoft’s secret project against iPhone?


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