{"id":3449,"date":"2012-05-02T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:03:00","slug":"web-radio-and-more-amazons-kindle-fire-on-sale-for-139-today-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/web-radio-and-more-amazons-kindle-fire-on-sale-for-139-today-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Radio and More? Amazon’s Kindle Fire on sale for $139 today only"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At the Winter SWL Fest this year, several people talked about how great the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet works as a portable wi-fi (internet) radio. Typically, these sell for $199 on Amazon, new. \u00a0Today, and only while supplies last, Amazon is selling refurbished Kindle Fires for $139 as one of their “Gold Box Deals”<\/a>. \u00a0That’s a great deal. Even Gizmodo<\/a> endorsed this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Winter SWL Fest this year, several people talked about how great the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet works as a portable wi-fi (internet) radio. Typically, these sell for $199 on Amazon, new. \u00a0Today, and only while supplies last, Amazon is selling refurbished Kindle Fires for $139 as one of their “Gold Box Deals”. \u00a0That’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[998],"tags":[471,1109,1108,999,4112,1011],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-radio","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-kindle-fire-as-wi-fi-radio","tag-amzon-kindle-fire-sale","tag-internet-radio","tag-web-radio","tag-wi-fi-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-TD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3412,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/cricket-muve-zte-score-our-pick-for-a-portable-wi-fi-radio-on-sale-at-bestbuy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3449,"position":0},"title":"Cricket – Muve ZTE Score: Our pick for a portable wi-fi radio, on sale at BestBuy","author":"Thomas","date":"April 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In our two-part series on Internet radio--Rethinking Internet Radio Part 1 and Part 2--we pointed out a very affordable and effective option for listening to internet radio: the Cricket Muve ZTE Score no-contract Android phone combined with the TuneIn radio app. Immediately after posting the article, the price of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1160-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3068,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/rethinking-internet-radio-part-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":3449,"position":1},"title":"Rethinking Internet Radio, Part One","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At the SWLfest this year, I attended a forum about web\/Internet radio that resulted in my reconsideration (and, frankly, increased appreciation) of this now-conventional medium. If you're already familiar with web radio, you may find this post a bit primary in nature; but if, like me, you hadn't given the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/webradio.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":62344,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/bobs-radio-corner-pairing-a-phone-or-tablet-with-a-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":3449,"position":2},"title":"Bob’s Radio Corner: Pairing a Phone or Tablet with a Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Pairing a Phone or Tablet with a Radio By Bob Colegrove The Internet is full of resources for radio listeners and hobbyists.\u00a0 There are numerous examples of general information, frequency, and schedule lists.\u00a0 There are also WebSDR sites, which allow you to compare reception experiences from around the world.\u00a0 All\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fig-6-U-Twente.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fig-6-U-Twente.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Fig-6-U-Twente.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3075,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/rethinking-internet-radio-part-two-using-the-cricket-muve-zte-score-mobile-phone-as-a-web-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":3449,"position":3},"title":"Rethinking Internet Radio, Part Two: Using the Cricket Muve ZTE Score Mobile Phone as a Web Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At the\u00a0SWLfest\u00a0this year, I attended a forum about web\/Internet radio that had a significant influence on my thinking about the subject, and which I discuss in Part One of this post. 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