Apple iPhone owners (jailbroken Apple iPhone owners, that is] “can now enjoy live streaming satellite radio from Sirius thanks to an application called uSirius,” Michael Kwan reports for Mobile Magazine.
“The app works in much the same way as iRadio. You aren’t connecting directly to the Sirius satellites, of course, seeing how the iPhone doesn’t have that functionality built into it. Instead, the music comes pumping through your iPhone either via Wi-Fi or EDGE. When the 3G iPhone comes out next month, you’ll be able to get a speedier connection via HSDPA as well,” Kwan reports.
“Unfortunately, getting in on the Sirius Satellite Radio action is going to cost you. There is a free three-day trial before you’ll need to register, so at least you can give a test drive before you buy it. Find it through Installer.app,” Kwan reports.
More info in the full article here.
Gizmodo covers it, too, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Drew” for the heads up.]
Sirius got is way into survival with this move!!! Very smart.
Hopefully they’ll offer this legitimately through the App Store.
Damn, you mean I have to pay for radio on my iPhone, too?
shouldn’t it be called rusirius?
Actually, I don’t understand why Sirius doesn’t work with my iPhone. It works fine under Safari on my desktop, and uses Quicktime to play.
Is it because they are afraid they will lose market for their portable players? Or is it a compatibility problem?
I have a Belkin Tunebase, and my iPhone sounds good through the FM, as does Flytunes (even under Edge), but no Sirius.
Once the 3G iPhones arrive, Sirius will be in trouble if they don’t offer web support to iPhones, as there are plenty of others that do.
This is not supposed to work, isn’t it? This certainly would be a forbidden background application.
The headline is misleading. Not many ‘regular folks’ are jailbreaking their iPhones and a very small percentage will in the future.
The headline should at least be changed to read: “Streaming Sirius Satellite Radio comes to Jailbroken Apple iPhone”
Streaming satellite radio?
Serious?
Cubert.
Of course, magic and fairy dust – works every time.
Can’t the iPhone already play streaming radio broadcasts from the thousands of radio stations that make their broadcasts freely available on the internet?
Beta and buggy:
http://www.millardsoftware.com/content/usirius-iphone-edition-beta-v61
This looks more like a proof of concept at this point – assuming you also don’t mind jailbreaking your iPhone.
alansky:
You might want to try FlyTunes – http://www.flytunes.fm/FlyTunesIPHONE.aspx
“FlyTunes is a FREE service that gives you what you really want – portable music and talk radio that’s better than Satellite radio, easy to use, and works on the device already in your pocket – the iPhone.”
No jailbreaking or subscriptions required.
The mere possibility of someday getting live sports on the iPhone is impressive. Flytunes doesn’t have anything near the content, range and star power of Sirius. You can bet certain people at both Sirius and Apple are taking notice….
Hello Howard Stern
Sweet. You cant get Sirius now on iPhone only because the iPhone 1.0 does not support Flash. The Sirius internet radio uses Flash on their website that makes accessing it on the iPhone not possible. Should iPhone support Flash (in any manner), you should be able to access from the Sirius web site, just like on your Mac/PC.
This would be great!
YOU CANNOT BE SIRIUS!!
THe article on Yahoo Finance claims that XM sat radio will have a legit app for the 3G Iphone available through the Iphone App store soon after release. With the pending merger I’m sure Sirius will be brought into the fold soon enough.
If I want music, I’ll listen to my music on my iPhone. The music streamed from XM and Sirius is in the 40-60kbps range. Over 3G that probably is going to be 1/2 that.
Now, if iPhone partnered with XM, and I could receive baseball, hockey, and news radio, I’d be happy. Unfortunately, with licensing issues, that ain’t going to happen.
So, this qualifies as boring, useless, non-news
FlyTunes has over 650 channels of content and growing. They’ve got AccuRadio, 1.FM, Radio Paradise, Smooth Jazz, Radio Disney, ESPN and 977Music. They’ve got like a hundred terrestrial stations and I hear they’re adding another 100 on Monday. They’ve got video from CNN, PBS, NPR, BBC and Nickelodean. FlyTunes was built for the EyePhone. What does Sirius have besides Howard Stern? Are they going to blow up their satellites?
Hey Ampar–
FlyTunes is great, but there is something missing from it that is a deal-breaker for me… It doesn’t scrobble to my Last.fm account.
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Finally: A feature that’s been available on Windows Mobile phones for years comes to the iPhone.
TheConfuzed1:
I haven’t scrobbled. Interesting concept.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm)
Thanks.
I always bring my satellite radio wherever i go because it is great listening to music.”
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