Created by AccuRadio LLC.

AccuRadio for the Palm Pre® is a new internet radio app that features hundreds of rock, pop, jazz, country, broadway, and classical music – and more. If you’re looking for an alternative to Pandora®, then this app is for you.

Upon launching the app, you have the choice to pick a genre, see your favorite channels or see a list of your recently heard channels. Picking ‘genre’ brings up a list of over 30 different music genres, with the usual selections as well as Cabaret, Brit Rock, Canadian, Comedy, French pop, Native American…you name it, it appears in the list. Picking one genre then brings up another screen of different radio channels under that category, with brief summaries of what the channel has on it. Once you pick a subgenre category, the music starts playing on your phone, just like that. The icons at the bottom of the screen allow you add the channel as your favorite (plus icon), see the artists on the channel (people icon), pause or fast-forward to the next song. The song that is playing comes up with album cover art, the title of the song, the artist, the album and the year it came out. If you tap on the black bar at the top, you get the summary of the channel you are listening to. If you want to see what else is available in the other genres, simply flick your finger from right to left in the back portion of the Palm Pre and you are returned to the subgenre, without disrupting the music. If you want to go back to what is playing, simply pick the ‘Now Playing’ icon at the bottom of the screen and you’re back to the art cover and song information.

AccuRadio is a very simple app to use and has a lot of choices not found on other internet radio apps. The only thing it doesn’t allow you to do is to pick an artist and listen to them. It is set up to only play genres, so if you know that you want to listen to Country and don’t care which artists play on your phone, then AccuRadio is for you. And on top of playing great music across all genres, it’s free as well.