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Sirius and XM Missing the Window
by Andrew McCaskey
My experiences the past week or so with Pandora Radio, the iPhone with 2.0 software, and the Cradlepoint PHS-300 give me an idea of where things are headed. And it’s not going to offer too much encouragement to stockholders of either XM or Sirius Radio.
For the past 700 miles or so, we have been comparing the listening experience of the Pandora/iPhone approach and the regular XM service that is our normal traveling mode.
What’s been most impressive is the ability of the iPhone (most of the time) to continue to stream audio from Pandora, even though the EDGE is the only available network.
The audio stream quality is better than XM (less compression) and the variety is, at least initially, a benefit over the XM stream. XM still wins on over all coverage and the ability to change programming channels quickly. Other than that, the use of the PHS-300 (which takes the Sprint EVDO and makes a local wifi node within the auto that the iPhone selects as a wifi signal) .
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