AccuRadio for the Palm Pre is a music streaming application that brings a large selection of online radio right to your smartphone. The range is eclectic, with music to suit everyone’s tastes. Like with other Palm Pre apps, you can leave the app running while listening to music and running other apps or performing other tasks. The home screen is simply a list of available genres. Digging into a genre presents the list of active channels, which in turn begin playing immediately when you tap on one.

With each channel, you can block specific artists from playing. If you enjoy a certain genre but don’t care for a particular set of artists within this genre, you can block them and listen peacefully. The interface is structurally very nice, with the bottom menu bar allowing you to navigate to any screen. AccuRadio also presents a “Now Playing” button to get more artist and album information. The controls also let you pause and skip tracks. The color scheme on the other hand, means that black text is hardly visible on the dark purple background. This leaves the app looking a little unpolished. However, once you get used to the controls you’ll hardly notice these aspects – after all, a radio app is meant to be left on in the background. This is a nice functional radio app for the Palm Pre.