Internet Radio on a car radio ?

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Rouxenator

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For a while now I have been enjoying internet radio on my phone and that got me thinking....

More and more car radios come with memory card and USB slots. Also, a lot of them have bluetooth capabilities to use your phone for making calls and so one. What if they start building internet radio functionality into car audio systems ?

Either they can use bluetooth to access the internet via your phone, but a better sollution all together would be if they can take a SIM card of their own and then you could have a dedicated car phone as well as the ability for your car to connect to the internet. This can be useful for anything from getting CDDB info of your CD tracks, to playing internet radio in your car and even updating traffic info over the web.

Has this been done or am I dreaming up stuff that will only see the light of day in some years to come ?
 
In the US they do have Sirius satellite radio, and they have this service for many years now ( 7 i think ) , we wont get such service for another 20 years probably ...
With SIRIUS Satellite Radio, you can listen to what you want, when you want, wherever you are. 100% Commercial-Free Music from every genre, plus Sports, News, Talk and Comedy — all with crystal-clear, coast-to-coast coverage, all in one place and all at your fingertips
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www.sirius.com
 
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Satellite radio is OK, but I am thinking more of internet radio, and adding internet capabilities to car audio system.
 
I have a Sony car radio and it has this Satelite radio connection on top, cant be used in SA, even in my Polo the RDS settings with radio genres are not supported, It will be cool if some one can start using all these features.
 
Rouxenator said:
Satellite radio is OK, but I am thinking more of internet radio, and adding internet capabilities to car audio system.
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seriously, we cant get proper internet services for our damn PC's , what makes you think we can get anything else ?
 
Rouxenator said:
Satellite radio is OK, but I am thinking more of internet radio, and adding internet capabilities to car audio system.
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You cant make a proper call driving at 120kmh how can the internet connection work without being interrupted? Imagine making a VOIP call and driving 120. Its also data hungry so perhaps it can/will work if our data prices drop drastically.
 
JK8 said:
You cant make a proper call driving at 120kmh how can the internet connection work without being interrupted? Imagine making a VOIP call and driving 120. Its also data hungry so perhaps it can/will work if our data prices drop drastically.
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Yeah I hope we do get cheaper data services. I manage to kill a few 100mb on a good day when connected to a 256kbit/s station. When using an AAC stream you would be amazed at the quality of the sound even at 48kbit/s. I guess if they do make mobile hardware for this kind of thing they will have to take the signal strength into account and switch to lower bandwidth streams in the background as it sees the signal dropping.

I have done a VOIP call at 120 and it did work nicely. Then again it was a area that is cover pretty good with HSDPA.

But I guess it is still a few years off. But it would be sweet though. Imagine skipping over digital radio broadcasts straight into the world of internet radio.
 
JK8 said:
You cant make a proper call driving at 120kmh how can the internet connection work without being interrupted? Imagine making a VOIP call and driving 120. Its also data hungry so perhaps it can/will work if our data prices drop drastically.
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If I remember correctly the maximum relative speed between a caller and a base station must not exceed 180 km/h. Not sure if the call drops at higher speeds or if it breaks up though.
 
ajax said:
If I remember correctly the maximum relative speed between a caller and a base station must not exceed 180 km/h. Not sure if the call drops at higher speeds or if it breaks up though.
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That is for a normal voice call on the AMA stream (CSD). We are talking about packet data (GPRS/EDGE/3G) Voip calls and streaming music over such a connection at speed.
I have had successful voice calls post 200km/h.
 
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