Pandora for Windows Phone 8 is now available and we go hands on

Pandora music has always been i of those apps that served equally a metric for mobile platforms: and so long as Windows Phone did not take it, it was behind. Luckily, last October Microsoft finally appear that indeed Pandora was coming to Windows Phone eight in "early 2022" and a few weeks ago we had hints it was near.

Well, that solar day is today.

Yes, the official Pandora app for Windows Phone 8 can exist downloaded from the Store and is at present available in the US, Australia and New Zealand. What's more than, Microsoft carried through on their promise of an advert-free experience throughout the year. Indeed users won't take to pay a dime to experience the premium Pandora experience on their Windows Phone.

In addition, the Windows Phone 8 Pandora app features some unique trimmings on it, including:Live Tiles (double wide, flip to reveal artist info) and Kid's Corner support. That latter feature will enable the explicit language filter automatically if the app is accessed via Microsoft'due south child controls on Windows Phone eight. Clever.

We've had an early take chances to play with the app extensively and we're impressed. It'south fast, smooth and the Alive Tiles work perfectly. Having access to that corporeality of music (and amusement similar one-act) on our Windows Phone is quite fantastic, peculiarly since the audio fidelity is quite high. Nix in the app feels "ported" or rushed only rather built from the footing up for Windows Phone 8.

From doublewide Tiles that flip to reveal artist and track info, to the ability to pin numerous stations to your Showtime screen, the Windows Telephone 8 Pandora app has it. If a track is playing that you want to purchase, simply head into the Xbox Music Store with one-click to buy. Equally, the app integrates with the social API on Windows Telephone, pregnant you can share the rails y'all are listening to with ease to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or share the station with your contacts directly.

Watch our video hands on with the app to see Pandora in activity, or just head here to the Windows Phone Store to go it now. Full press release below. [Note: links may take awhile to become "live" but it should happen soon enough].

Windows Phone 8 only, 512MB of RAM, region restricted.

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Pandora Extends Mobile Attain with Windows Phone

Microsoft to offer Windows Telephone 8 customers ad-costless personalized radio through 2022

OAKLAND, Calif., March 21, 2022 (eight:30 a.chiliad. EST) – Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading cyberspace radio service, today announced the availability of its popular mobile app on the Windows Phone platform, extending the company's leadership position as one of the superlative apps across all continued devices.

Through more than 1,000 integrations including smartphones and consumer electronics devices, Pandora continues to be an manufacture leader in mobile and device usage. More than 140 million registered users accept accessed Pandora via a smartphone or tablet and more than 75 percent of Pandora's listening occurs on a mobile or other connected device.

Pandora listeners on Windows Phone 8 volition relish advertisement-free personalized radio at no cost, courtesy of Microsoft, through the 2022 calendar year in addition to features unique to the platform, including Live Tiles and Child's Corner:

Alive Tiles make the Windows Phone feel highly personalized, assuasive people to easily access the features and apps where they spend most of their time. Pandora listeners tin can pin their favorite personalized radio stations right to the Kickoff screen of their telephone to come across what'due south currently playing at a glance and for easy admission to stations recently played without having to launch the app.
Child'south Corner offers a worry free manner for Windows Phone customers to share their smartphone with the entire family. Launching Pandora in Kid's Corner volition automatically activate the explicit content filter for instant kid-friendly listening.

The boggling embrace of personalized radio on smartphones has enabled Pandora to accomplish massive scale in mobile listening and over 1 in 3 smartphone users in the U.s. have listened to Pandora in the past month.

Pandora Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Joe Kennedy said, "Pandora has reached a level of ubiquity that allows music fans to melody-in to the best cyberspace radio someday, anywhere and nosotros are thrilled to bring the experience to even more than mobile listeners through the highly personalized platform that Microsoft has created with Windows Telephone."

"Pandora pioneered the personal music experience with individualized stations and it's a perfect match for Windows Telephone, the first truly personal smartphone feel with unique features like Alive Tiles and Kids Corner," said Joe Belfiore, VP, Windows Phone Division, Microsoft Corp. "Pandora for Windows Telephone takes advantage of these features and more to deliver a free personalized music feel exclusive to the platform," he continued.

Starting today, listeners in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand can download Pandora for Windows Phone 8 from Windows Phone Store at world wide web.windowsphone.com/pandora. More than details, including a video are available via the Microsoft Windows Phone News Room at www.windowsphone.com/blog.

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Pandora (NYSE: P) gives people music and one-act they dear anytime, anywhere, through connected devices. Personalized stations launch instantly with the input of a unmarried "seed" - a favorite artist, song, or genre. The Music Genome Project®, a deeply detailed hand-built musical taxonomy, powers the personalization of Pandora® internet radio by using musicological "DNA" and constant listener feedback to craft personalized stations from a growing collection of more than than one 1000000 tracks. Tens of millions of people turn on Pandora every month to hear music they love. www.pandora.com

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