Nokia Internet Radio

I was confused. I’d been under the impression that S60 Internet Radio and Nokia Internet Radio where the same application. It turns out that the former is an older proof-of-concept application from Nokia Research, whereas the later is a much more polished application. And it’s really quite neat.

Fire up the application and you see a variety of ways to search for stations — genre, language, country. Select a genre, see a list of stations; select a station and the station buffers and then starts to stream:

A streaming audio player isn’t, of course, a revolutionary app in and of itself. But a streaming audio player, elegantly wrapped up like this, and pocket-sized, makes for a very nice musical appliance.