radio

Spotify: Pure music-streaming win

Crave Not CD quality, but certainly as good as many DAB radio stations. Yesterday, through what seems to be random happenstance, everyone on Twitter started talking about Spotify. One email to the press department and a very short wait later and we had...

Tags: wait, account, clicking, listen

4 December 2008, 11:38

Nokia N79: Clever chameleon

Crave Boasting HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, an FM transmitter so you can play your tunes through a radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 5-megapixel camera, the Nokia N79 is a rather nifty phone if ever we saw one. Before this week's big Nokia announcement let us...

Tags: nokia, concept, cases, hardware

1 December 2008, 11:25

PURE Digital Avanti Flow: Slick Net and DAB radio

Crave But now the name has been recycled for the latest and greatest Internet and DAB radio from PURE Digital. Its full name is the Avanti Flow, and it's the second model from PURE to come with the company's Internet radio service, following on from the...

Tags: pure digital, name, radio, wi fi

26 November 2008, 10:56

tikitag: RFID for the masses

Crave Here at Crave, we're huge fans of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Oyster cards have made our commutes less painful, RFID passports are promising to cut queues at airports, and the data logged by our office keys give us alibis when...

Tags: development, community, readers, firebox

25 November 2008, 11:01

BBC One and Two to broadcast live online

Crave Other BBC channels, including BBC Three, BBC Four and BBC News, have been available in simulcast form for some time, along with various BBC Radio stations. BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live on the Internet from 27 November at the...

Tags: broadcast, bbc, bbc radio, research

21 November 2008, 9:14

Photos: Ears-on with the wireless Sleek Audio SA6 earphones

Crave Our criticism is that we can hear a very faint radio-like buzzing in the background. Sleek Audio's SA6 earphones were previously just available as wired earphones, but can now be snagged in a pack that incorporates the wireless Kleer technology.

20 November 2008, 11:53

SanDisk Sansa Clip goes 8GB, eats FLAC

Crave Its screen might not play video or even display colours, but £50 for a secondary MP3 player that pumps great-sounding audio, supports Audible audiobooks and Napster subscriptions, and picks up FM radio, is hard to criticise.

Tags: sandisk, clip, shuffle, flac

12 November 2008, 10:17

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave Basically it scans the FM radio spectrum to find the three best frequencies to use and then saves them automatically to three programmable preset buttons for recall later. It receives DAB digital stations and transmits them to your car radio on a...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Hands-on with the Tangent Uno FM radio

Crave We've made an exception today for Tangent's Uno -- a monaural, FM/AM tabletop radio. Our resident ham and old-time radio know-it-all Rupert Goodwins wished, on his knees in fact, that the dial glowed orange.

Tags: tangent, dial, radio, century

11 November 2008, 11:06

Photos: Hands-on with the Motorola International 7500

Crave Call clarity is pretty good, and the extendible aerial means that those lethal radio waves and exotic gamma radiation generated by all mobile phones is set clear away from your brain-box. It wasn't so very long ago that mobile phones were the size...

6 November 2008, 11:24

Hands on with the Casio Exilim EX-Z19: N-n-n-n-nineteen

Crave Just as video killed the radio star, for some reason Casio's taken a backwards step in its implementation of YouTube capture mode in the Z19. In the week that MTV released every video ever shown on the channel to people in the States -- and people...

Tags: casio, scene, ex, portrait

31 October 2008, 11:20

Photos: Nokia 6600 Slide is too cute to ignore

Crave Underneath this stylish exterior lies a simple but functional set of features, including 3G, an FM radio, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and an expandable memory card slot. When companies get really big, they sometimes forget what made them good...

24 October 2008, 12:24

Obama a gamer? Campaign ads in 'Burnout Paradise'

Crave The EA representative said that the publisher treats its in-game advertising like a TV network or radio station would, noting, "Political advertising does not reflect the opinions or policies of EA or its developers.

Tags: host, ads, ad, campaign

16 October 2008, 10:03

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung YP-Q1 Diamond

Crave It's got an FM radio and voice recorder too, and should give you up to 30 hours of battery life for music, and 4 for video. There's no need for a tortured intro here: Samsung's latest MP3 player -- the YP-Q1 Diamond -- may be the best it has ever...

13 October 2008, 12:57

New Zunes: Buying songs from radio and more

Crave We just finished getting our hands on the new Zune players and trying out their new software features, which let you do things like buy a song off the radio and download tunes directly from the device via the Internet.

Tags: song, stations, zune, fi

9 September 2008, 10:44