Nokia Internet Radio was launched last week at Nokia World 2007 and we set our music and media expert Ewan on it immediately. Here's his review, concluding that apart from the initial lack of RealAudio and WMA support, Nokia Internet Radio is just about perfect. Now if it would only wake him up in the morning too!

"Released from Nokia’s Beta Labs last week, as Nokia World 2007 opened, was Nokia’s Internet Radio. On the face of it, this is a simple application, but as with most things, sometimes the simple things are the best.

Broadband users, for a long time, have taken for granted the ability to listen to radio stations from around the world over the internet. There are a number of standards that can be used – RealAudio, Windows Media and MP3 Streaming. Currently, Nokia Radio supports MP3 streaming, and hopefully the others are on the way. This means that not all the radio stations online around the world are available – and that includes the BBC. I’ve a sneaky suspicion that getting Radio 4 into the application is at the top of the feature wish list."

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