Radyo is free for today. Type “Radyo” in App Store to get it if you didn’t already!

Görsel reklamlar, videolu reklamlar, oyunlu reklamlar… Mobil uygulamalar için bahsi geçen bu reklam türlerinin hepsi mevcut, fakat sadece ses içeren ve uygulamanın herhangi bir noktasında kullanılabilecek bir reklam sistemi şu an için mevcut değildir. (Bu yazının yazıldığı tarihte yaptığım kısa araştırmaya göre Türkiye içerisinde mevcut değildi, gözden kaçırdıklarım olabilir.)

Bu alt yapı, böyle bir sistemin olmaması nedeniyle geliştirilmiş olup, Türkiye’de ilk kez iPhone üzerindeki RADYO uygulaması içerisinde kullanılacaktır. Her ne kadar bu ve benzeri fikirler ilk kez düşünülmüş olmasa da, şu an çalışır halde başka bir örneğe rastlanmamıştır.

Girişimciler ve/veya mevcut reklam şirketleri bu noktadan sonra bu tip bir sistemi de rutin toplantılarındaki maddelere eklemek isteyebilirler.

Bu duyurunun bir kaç sebebi vardır. Özellikle:

1. Potansiyel reklam verenleri bilgilendirmek.
2. Arşivde bu projeye ait bir şeylerin bulunmasını sağlamak.
3. Reklam ajanslarının bu türde reklamları da portfolyolarına eklemelerinin faydalı olabileceğini düşündürmek.

Radyo uygulaması içerisindeki çalışma şekli ve akla takılabilecek durumlar:

• Sesli Reklamların başlangıcında ve bitişinde özel bir müzik çalınır.
• Dinlenen kanalda zaten bir reklam oynuyorsa, Sesli Reklam etik sebeplerden dolayı devreye girmez.
• Dinlenen kanalda bir reklamın oynadığı tespit edilemediyse, mecburen kanal geçici olarak kapatılır ve reklamlardan sonra tekrar açılır. Bu noktada unutulmaması gereken, mevcut radyo kanalının yayınına müdahale yapılmadığıdır. RADYO uygulamasının verdiği “oynatıcı” hizmeti bir süre durdurularak, uygulamanın ücretsiz kalmasını sağlayacak reklamlara yer verilir.

Uygulamayı terketmeden, uygulama yükseltilerek, reklamlar devre dışı bırakılabilir.

Şu an kullanımda olan ücretli RADYO uygulamasının kullanımı göz önüne alındığında, ücretsiz sürümünün ulaşacağı kişi sayısı oldukça fazla olacaktır.  “Oldukça” kelimesi, yerini GERÇEK sayılara bırakacaktır: Radyo’nun ücretsiz sürümüyle beraber, istatistikleri her hafta  otomatik olarak duyurulacaktır.

As of date, ONLY radio application with THE BEST features in app stores all over the world!

iPhone RADYO – radio application’s “3.0″ version is out!

The Most Extraordinary Radio Experience in your pocket!

There are many new features with this version and it’s available worldwide, including radio stations of 60 countries in 8 languages! (Greek and Italian languages were added in this version)

By the way, RADYO already supports iPad. (But it’s iPad specific version will also be there!)

Chat

This is a huge feature. There was something missing in RADYO, but it was hard to find it out clearly. Sometimes, People need people…  Even while listening to radio. ( Some kind of socializing ). This was missing in RADYO until today! As the first steps of this change, now a chat service is available in this version so you can chat with anyone listening to the same station with you! You can also chat with anyone from the world or only from the country you selected. You can gift the next song to someone you just met! Like you were in a cafe and no tv was invented.

Chat service is made specifically for RADYO application and does not use any other chat service other than it’s own! Just tap the chat button and you are ready to go! No registration, no setup, just chat.

Share!

Facebook support has already been there. But with this version, Twitter and Friendfeed support are also available. Now you can share what you are listening & your message with your friends or followers. Since the sharing system does not just put simple browser windows in the application and it uses Direct API’s from the service, it serves faster and better!

Alarm Clock!

So few applications succeeds to work after many hours of silence; RADYO managed to work after many hours of silence after the screen is locked. Now you can wake up with your favourite radio station! If you don’t stop the music and try to sleep with music, you’ll be alerted with an annoying song after 5 minutes ( selectable option ). Touch anywhere on the screen to stop the alarm!

Battery Management!

You are curious about your battery charge status? Ok, now you can define a limit for RADYO application to stop when battery charge drops below that that limit. YAY!

Bitrate/Traffic Monitoring System

In general, (some) radio applications in Desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices have a good feature that shows the bitrate of the station you are listening to. However it’s an easy task to do because the station already tells it’s bitrate as an information message, it’s a good feature! People demand this.

For RADYO application.. From the very beginning of this application people wanted to see the bitrate of the music, they wanted to monitor the quality and the traffic. Here it comes! RADYO with it’s 3.0 version, does not use the bitrate information given my the selected station; it finds it out itself! New, bitrate monitoring system dynamically calculates the transfer speed and determines traffic. You can even see the difference when news or photo related to the song/artist is changed while you listen to the channel. This is again one of – “one of it’s kind” features!

Home Screen Favourite Stations!

Your favourite station does not have to make it’s own iPhone application anymore!!! While listening to your favourite station, touch to the image on the up-right (related to the station), you’ll be presented with the station’s url and options to add it to your main screen!

These can be immediately changed and extended if your favourite station contacts us to customize install pages, icon and expand the module for their station (absolutely free)!

Direct Linking System for Web Sites

You want your listeners to listen to you via iPhone? Just give the link of your station from your site starting with “radyo://”

It has never been so easy!

Listening Duration

Quota feature has already been there to limit the usage of GSM or Wi-Fi network. But it was a mistery before to know when the application will reach to this limit. Now with RADYO version 3.0, you’ll know when your quota will be filled up and your possible listening duration!

You can click here to download and start to use RADYO in seconds!

OR

You can see more screenshots and all of the features here on my site, or on iphoneradyo.com

Uygulama Korsanlığı, iPhone, Öneriler, …

Başka yerlerde bulamayacağınız çeşitli istatistikleri içeren dökümanı buradan indirebilirsiniz: Türkiye’nin Mobil Radyosu – RADYO Gerçekleri

To make it short, some of the new features of iPhone Radyo (radio) Application will be powered by Google horse power.

I have been supporting even OS2.0 for all of my applications. And starting with RADYO‘s new version, i’ll be dropping support for iPhone OS versions below 3.0. So current owners of iPhone RADYO who have OS 2.x will not be able to upgrade to the newest version.

- Usage statistics for last 3 months of my iPhone applications show that only %1.8 uses iPhone OS version 2.x

- Usage statistics for last month shows that only %1.2 uses iPhone OS version 2.x

I can consider 2.x as an old system (for myself) according to these numbers. iPhone OS’ new version is coming and also we’ll be using iPads. Both supporting OS 2.0 and adding new features takes more time both for testing and planning the project.

Under these circumstances continuing to give support for OS2.x is not feasible anymore.

By the way, Radyo is still the number 1 paid application in the app store!

It’s good to see 2 of my applications are leading to the categories they are in.

Radyo has it’s own site now and can be reached at http://iphoneradyo.com

For those who can’t (don’t want to) pay for the application and who are curious about the new version, we have a demo video:

You can watch it from

• youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVmBT1oJzI
• vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/6989961
• facebook: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=152809412409

It can be installed from all App Stores worldwide to any apple device using iPhone OS2.0.

You may visit application’s own page for details.