"As for in-car installs, we've been inundated with a lot of companies who are interested in this," he said, declining to name the interested automobile manufacturers.
"I would imagine that that would probably happen in 2010.
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Parthimos said Blaupunkt expects the radio to cost around 399 dollars.
George Parthimos, chief executive of miRoamer, said the Blaupunkt 600i is the first "purpose-built Internet car radio, where the Internet radio capabilities are an ingredient part of the actual unit itself.
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"It will have everything you'd expect to find in a medium- to high-end radio -- AM/FM, CD, MP3 -- with the added ingredient of Internet radio," he said of the device, which was unveiled at the annual Consumer Electronics Show here.
A 3G mobile phone with a data plan is needed to connect the radio to the Internet, Parthimos said, and the company estimates the average user would consume around two gigabytes of data a month.
"It uses Bluetooth connectivity to connect to a cellphone and th