NEW YORK – SIRIUS Satellite Radio made a pair of announcements today touting the shrinking nature of the satellite radio receivers.
The first is its smallest plug and play car receiver. The Starmate Replay, at 5 x 1.9 inches and 0.8 inches thick, weighs just 3.9 ounces. The small satellite radio features a five-line screen that displays the artist’s name and song title, a four-way navigation button, and a sleek shape specially designed for easy integration into today’s vehicles.
The radio has 44 minutes of replay capability, allowing the user to pause, rewind and fast forward their favorite music, sports or talk program. Starmate Replay also includes the "SIRIUS-Seek" feature, which alerts listeners when any of their favorite 30 artists or songs are playing.
The Starmate Replay, which comes with all accessories for the car including a suction cup mount, hook and loop fastener, and a low profile antenna, will retail for US$129.99. An optional home kit will be available for a suggested retail price of US$39.99, and a custom installation kit, featuring a vehicle interface plate that offers a clean, professional and permanent installation, will also be available.
The company also unveiled a new wearable receiver, the SIRIUS S50, which allows users to capture and store up to 50 hours of SIRIUS content, or a mix of SIRIUS programming and MP3/WMA files, enabling listening on the go. The SIRIUS S50 is scheduled to be available at retail this October.
It measures just 1.9 by 3.9 inches and 0.7 inches thick, and includes a full color display, sleek black exterior and voice-assisted channel navigation. When attached to a home dock, car dock or executive docking station, the SIRIUS S50 provides access to live content, and captures and stores both scheduled and unscheduled SIRIUS programming. This feature allows users to listen to SIRIUS’ unique programming anywhere.
The SIRIUS S50 will be available for a suggested retail price of US$359.99, and includes wearable accessories (6-hour rechargeable battery, ear buds, belt clip, armband, USB cable and AC adapter) and a car dock, which includes an adhesive mount, custom cigarette lighter power adapter, a remote control, ultra-low profile antenna, DC input and line output. A home dock, which includes audio mixing for PC sound pass-through, and connects to speakers and PCs, a remote control, home antenna, USB cable, audio cable and power supply will be available for MSRP US$99.99.
Also recently, the SIRIUS Canada partnership (SIRIUS, Standard Radio and CBC launched a Canadian web site, which offers information and is pre-signing subscribers, in preparation for the service’s launch this fall.
