Music applications for G1 mobile
Posted on January 30, 2009, under Google Android.
New Android app is a fully featured Last.fm radio application that supports the open nature of the Android OS. It allows you to stream your Last.fm stations, view friends’ profiles and watch out for up coming events. LastFM takes all the features from the website and crams into the little screen on the G1. Users can save stations, find the top 100, view their library of music, find items recommended by LastFM, start new stations, and the many profile tweaks and settings that the website allows you. It keeps you notified of what you are listening to via the notification tab in Android. Fans of LastFM may be pleased with all this and the fact that the app can run in the background while your doing other things, like checking your email.
I thought I’d give it a go against Imeem Mobile, which has been out on the market for much longer.
Imeem saves your favorite stations so that you can always go back to them. That means that if you’ve fine-tuned your station to just the way you want it, you’ll always be able to go back and listen to it. In comparison, Imeem doesn’t have the selection of LastFM and it only seems to go for the biggest artists at the moment, but the selection is growing. Imeem seems to be more robust and works also in 2G which saves your battery life. At this point I think that both applications still need to work on their reliability and performance.