I don’t know about you, but I’m not a huge fan of internet radio, I feel the radio we have at the moment satisfy all my needs. But I suppose the added advantage of having internet radio is you can listen to radio that’s not just in your own country or region but also internationally. At next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Blaupunkt and miRoamer will announce the world’s first in dash Internet radio receiver.

The press release says the radios will be offered as built in original equipment which I suppose means as opposed to consumers having to pay extra buckets of cash to have their new technology installed, but there isn’t much detail about which automakers will offer the system or even how the radios will receive the data.

But at the moment, it seems like connectivity will range from a variety of methods. Some proposed that it will connect to a 3G/HSDPA/HSPA device via Bluetooth for internet connectivity. When connecting to the Internet from an external device, the customer’s existing service provider is the default network. They have various models in the pipeline which may have their own internal modem.

miRoamer’s development with Blaupunkt is the first seamless Internet radio solution. With the simple push of a button, users can access AM/FM stations or Internet radio’s thousands of music, entertainment, news and talk stations from around the world, all from the same car stereo.

[via SlipperyBrick, GearDiary]