iTunes Radio?

Yea well maybe its not labelled as "iTunes Radio" but most people would have worked out that they were the same thing.

What about HD radio reception? The chip in the iPhone may be capable of it.

http://artoftheiphone.com/2007/09/08/iphone-hd-radio-and-itunes-tagging/

Your math is just a little off. Remember that songs are encoded at kilobits per second not kilobytes per second. So, realistically, when AT&T says you are getting 20 minutes for 20MB, you are getting 160mbits. So, in a minute you can use 8mbits or .133mbits a second, or, in terms of kilobits, 133kilobits per second. So, in essence, AT&T would be saying that it is 128kbps encoded music running over EDGE, giving us a data download of roughly 1MB per minute.

Don't have an iPhone yet. Are you guys saying that if I pointed the
iPhone Safari browser to an internet radio station that one can find at
http://yp.shoutcast.com for instance, that the iPhone/Safari/iTunes
will not play back the stream like Safari/iTunes will on a Mac?
That sucks if it's true. I had planned on streaming my home radio
station to my car using Nicecast to my iPhone when I bought one of
the next versions of the iPhone.

Dan

Parsnip, I think you are confusing your bytes and bits. 20mins of 32kbps is 4.9152MB. 20MB for 20mins is 136.53kbps.

ok... some quick math: a 32k mp3 stream for 60 seconds is 1.92 Megs a minute (32 * 60). At 20 minutes that's 38.4 Megs (20 * 1.92).

This almost 40 Megs or twice the amount of bandwith they mention. Doesn't sound like streaming radio to me.

So eager to pick up the rumor and thereby missing the real story...

Engadget reported (where's tuaw?) that AT&T introduced two new international roaming plans for the iPhone.

The great news (Engadget missed that one, too) is that these new plans can be added and dropped on a month-to-month basis unlike before, where one had to sign up for a whole year.

Let's not forget the references to a "mobile radio" app in some plists in the iphone:

http://www.iphoneology.com/2007/07/30/iphone-firmware-hints-at-new-apps-widgets/

@thethirdmoose:

it would actually be about 166 kilobIts per second, not 16 kilobYtes per second.

I find it interesting that no one really commented on the fact that Apple added many radio stations to iTunes in the 7.4 revision.

I also find it interesting that many of these new stations are coming from http://pri.kts-af.net. When you type that into your browser it says: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at tunes.apple.com Port 80

I also find it interesting that http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306608 mentions listening to internet radio and podcasts at Starbucks.

All of this tells me that Apple is going to have a WiFi radio app on the iPhone and the iPod touch in an upcoming revision to the iPhone/iPod touch software. :-)