
Android: NPR News' Android app has quickly upgraded its nice but not quite necessary app to something far more useful: a portal for streaming nearly any NPR station's content live to your phone, including your local favorites.


Fire up the application, choose the Stations menu item, and you're asked if you want to find your stations based on location, or enter a ZIP code or city name to find one. Assuming your local station is one of the 600 NPR stations in the U.S. offering more than 1,000 news, HD music, and other streams, you're good to go. For at least one Lifehacker editor, this means having a much more varied playlist to cook dinner to, and one more excuse not to get up early on weekends.

NPR News is a free download in the Android market.

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