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Orange launches its wireless radio, the vintage Liveradio


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* With the new Liveradio you can listen to radio stations from around the world in Hi Fi quality
* Orange is enhancing its Liveradio service

vintage Liveradio: digital gets a vintage makeover!
To enhance your enjoyment of listening to web radio stations at home, Orange is launching the vintage Liveradio:

* access to over 5 000 radio stations and 11 000 podcasts* (news, sport, music and comedy) from around the world
* personalise content and easily download tracks from http://liveradio.orange.fr
* excellent sound quality
* easy-to-use – thanks to its special remote control

with its wooden casing, the vintage Liveradio has a “retro” look
Connect it via Wi-Fi or Ethernet to your livebox or any other Internet router, so that you can listen to it anywhere in the house.
The vintage Liveradio also has a media player function, so that you can listen to music stored on your computer.
It is easy to use with its three pre-set buttons on the front, an LCD screen, an infrared remote control, and eight buttons giving you direct access to radio stations. It has a USB port so that you can listen to audio content (WMA, MP3, WAV and Real) with its key, an MP3 player or its integrated FM Tuner. With the liveradio interfaces, you can save your favourite tracks thanks to the “favourites” button.

In partnership with Audiolib and litteratureaudio.com, Orange offers audio books on its interactive radio service, Liveradio. The first chapters of Audiolib’s new releases are available as well as the whole works released by litteratureaudio.com. Audio books can be found under “podcasts” as each chapter is similar to a podcast. The listener can choose a book or a chapter, and navigate from chapter to chapter via a menu.
The vintage liveradio will be available from 5 March in France Orange stores, by dialling 1014** or visiting www.orange.fr for € 99 (maximum recommended price).
It is available for all customers with an ADSL connection via a livebox or any other type of modem.
It can also be loaned to journalists by contacting the Orange press relations service.

Liveradio, a multi-platform service
The liveradio web radio service is available on wireless radios, computers and mobiles (and soon Orange TV) in four countries (France, the UK, Switzerland and Spain).

Liveradio allows you to easily listen to and find your favourite web radio stations and podcasts from a selection of several thousand stations and programmes.
Other innovative and enhanced features include the option to know (live) the time and name of programmes as well as the name of the presenter, the titles of song tracks and the option to bookmark those you want to save.
Several hundred thousand listeners now tune to Liveradio via orange.fr, the liveradio widget on Vista™, on iPhone and on the first wireless radio that was launched in 2007. The liveradio application on iPhone has now been downloaded over 300 000 times*** (one of the three most downloaded applications on iTunes in 2008 according to Apple). On Windows™ Vista™, the liveradio widget has been downloaded over one million times, currently making it the number one widget on Windows Gallery (source: http://gallery.live.com)

* Radio programmes on demand
** Calls are free from a France Telecom landline. Other charges may apply with other operators.
*** Cost of downloading varies according to the type of subscription



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