Slacker fans have something to celebrate.  The popular service that makes experiencing music easy, has just upgraded their iPhone and Blackberry app’s.  With over 1,000,000 downloads the first application was already popular.   Now, with additional features, the Slacker application is poised to become the king of the Internet radio hill.

Slacker already boasts over four times the music selection of their nearest competitor.   The high quality sound over any connection is an attractive feature, but now you don’t have to stop your tunes to check your e-mail.  This allows uninterrupted musical enjoyment while you still conduct business.  Another great improvement for the new Slacker application is faster song to song transitions.

Slacker has been doing anything but Slacking.  They are working constantly on improvements so that the consumer can enjoy an unparalleled music experience.

Slacker has done nothing but grow since the beginning,  They have gone from self producing their devices to creating awesome applications for the popular iPhone and Blackberry.  Now Slacker has added a new device to its arsenal.  The X-Series Walkman from Sony.

Yesterday Sony unveiled its top-of-the-line Walkman Video MP3 player – the X-series Walkman.   This is a premium portable entertainment device that Sony hopes will rival Apples iPod and Microsofts Zune.  The X-Series  is Wi-Fi enabled and features an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) touch screen, Sony’s Digital Clear Audio Technologies, as well as embedded content provided by Slacker Radio and YouTube.  That’s right…..Slacker comes standard!  This will give the Internet radio provider even more exposure, and is sure to bring more Slacker fans to the forefront.

“The new X-series leverages Sony’s engineering heritage and integrates the latest advances in OLED and other innovative technologies.  We focused on enhancing audio and video playback to develop a device that
allows consumers a deeper, more interactive way to enjoy content, as well as discover new content, for a truly unique entertainment experience.”

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Slacker has officially added song lyrics to their ever evolving web, iPhone, and Blackberry applications. Subscribers will now be able to single along with their favorite music, or simply look up that line they keep mumbling under their breathe because they don’t know the actual words, at no additional cost.

It should be noted that the lyrics will only be available via the web player if you have an existing Radio Plus subscription. If the ability to cut ads, skip unlimited songs, and request unlimited songs were not enough, you can now add lyrics to the list of features available for only $3.99 per month.

iPhone and Blackberry pics after the jump…

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The guys over at Siriusbuzz have got their hands on a sweet Slacker G2 prize pack and they are giving away totally free! For those of you who love the service but don’t have a few hundred to drop on a new portable, now is your chance. To enter all you have to do is follow them on Twitter and retweet the story. There are only about 50 entries to date so, it looks like this might be a hidden gem with a pretty realistic shot at winning.

Today Slacker announced the release of their latest free mobile app for the BlackBerry Storm. BlackBerry Storm users in the U.S with OS 4.3 or higher can now listen to their favorite Slacker radio stations anywhere they go, whether they are connected to a wireless network or not.

The intuitive sleek user interface has both horizontal and vertical views with full touchscreen capabilities that allow users to pause, skip, rate, ban, view artist info, album art, and look ahead at information about the next artist coming up in rotation.

Exclusive new station caching for the BlackBerry now enables listeners to store their favorite stations on a memory card, allowing them to listen without a network connection. The new caching ability is also said to reduce power consumption by up to 5 times that of streaming playback and enhances performance.

The application is totally free and is available for download by visiting Slacker.com from any BlackBerry Storm. More images for your viewing pleasure after the jump…

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All of you iPhone fans out there will be happy to know that you can now get high-quality stereo sound over any wireless connection with the new Slacker iPhone Application. To get your hands on the Slacker Mobile application for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch all you have to do is head over to the Apple iTunes App Store or simply browse to Slacker.com/iPhone with your iPhone.

For the first time, iPhone and iPod touch owners can finally take advantage of the same features made available via the web interface, such as artist biographies and album reviews, station fine tuning, “peek ahead” song previews and custom artist stations.

This is clearly a huge addition to the crowd pleasing arsenal of Slacker products but, more importantly, this new app gives Slacker a big leg up on the growing competition. More eye candy after the jump…

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Okay, so you have Slacker, but have not yet pulled the trigger on getting the portable player.  No worries! Slacker is now available with an awesome Blackberry application that literally lets you take Slacker with you wherever you want to go.

First Things First.  You need to upgrade your Blackberry operating system to version 4.5 or newer.  Not only will this allow you to download the Slacker application, but it will make your Blackberry better with things such as HTML e-mail.

Once you have accomplished this, the rest, like anything else brought to you by Slacker, is a breeze.  Simply direct your Blackberry to the link provided at Slacker, hit download, and shortly thereafter you will have the full Slacker service streaming on your Blackberry device.

The Slacker Blackberry service is intuitive, and even has the Slacker functions you have come to expect.  You can ”Love” songs, “Ban” them, and even find great new content.  There is buffering at times when listening live, so you may want to cache a few of your favorite channels onto the micro SD card in your Blackberry.  Caching stations makes them more seamless, and means that buffering or cell signal will not be a worry.

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Blackberry fans have something to celebrate.  Your Slacker service can now be brought to you directly through your Blackberry!  You can listen to all of your favorite personalized Slacker stations for free!  What better than a killer application for those Slacker subscribers out there.  The service features the ability to listen to over 100 stations programmed by music experts or create your own custom stations right from your Blackberry.

Features:

• Unlimited free music on your BlackBerry
• Over 100 expert-programmed genre stations
• High-quality stereo sound over any connection
• Listen even when not connected
• Music plays even while using other applications