SiriusXM Shows Off Lynx, An Android-Powered, Portable Radio

When I was flipping through my SiriusXM player the other day I was thinking about how cool it would be if it had some flavor of Android running it (seriously). Well it appears that someone over at SiriusXM can read minds because today they unveiled their latest?portable?satellite radio, the Lynx. Here?s the kicker, it runs Android! However we have no idea what flavor of Android. If you didn?t know that it ran Android though, chances are you never would. Considering that way back in the beginning of this year SiriusXM was working on bringing Sirius Radio to Android devices it looks like they took it the complete opposite way.

It can used in a dockable in-car radio, used in a home docking kit, or used as a portable music player on it?s own with playback through the 3.5mm headphones or you can even use bluetooth headphones.You can also connect to the the internet through WiFi to upgrade the software easily. This ?SiriusXM 2.0? device boasts the following features:

• Tune Start?: Automatically starts the currently playing song from the beginning so listeners will hear the whole song when tuning to any of their satellite radio music channels saved as a Favorite channel.
• Radio Replays: Subscribers can build a library of up to 200 hours of programming from their Favorite satellite radio channels which are automatically recorded to allow for playback anywhere.
• Pause, Rewind and Replay: Listeners can replay up to 30 minutes of live SiriusXM content on the currently tuned channel, and also access replay content on 5 favorite preset channels currently displayed.
• Featured Favorites?:? A dynamic set of presets that can be automatically added as favorite channels, allowing users to easily discover new and specialty programming.
• Show Finder?: An easy-to-use electronic programming guide offering a complete list of what?s on over the next 7 days by channel, with the ability to set reminder alerts when favorite shows are being broadcast.

SiriusXM 2.0 features will be offered by the Lynx for listening to SiriusXM Internet Radio through WiFi networks at home, office or accessible hotspot, including:

• Start Now allows subscribers to go back 5 hours to select and listen to previously broadcast programming.
• View program information, album art and read artist bios.
• Rewind to hear programming again or skip forward to hear what?s playing next.
• Pause live radio and pick up right where the listener left off
• Access to Show Finder?, the electronic programming guide.

While this may not be the Android you know and love it?s still Android at heart. Rest assured if there is a will there?s a way and someone will do what they can to root this device as we?ve seen with with Android?s first sports watch, the MOTOACTV. Maybe we will be able to play Angry Birds while we are driving down the road.

But seriously, I am pretty excited about this device and the features it has. I like the idea of playing songs from the start rather than finding a good one to listen to only to find it?s at the end of the song. One thing is for certain; it?s nice to see the Android OS expanding into other technological aspects. You can purchase one of these badboys at the SiriusXM web shop for $249.99. It?s a pretty penny, but the features may be worth it. If you purchase one of these let us know in the comments section what you think of it.

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[via SiriusXM]

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