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The radio venture is a link-up between the giant Swedish phone maker Ericsson and the global music video TV station, MTV, through its MTVi project, and will employ Bluetooth technology.
The Cordless Internet Radio allows access to thousands of Internet radio stations without having to be linked up to a computer.
Ericsson and MTVi announced the alliance at Cebit, the huge IT exhibition in Hannover, Germany.
Shortcut buttons on the radio let users browse, select stations and save their favourites. Users can also create their own music archive and access sound files from the Internet or from a computer.
Built-in stereo speakers will offer high-quality integrated sound while the product can also be used with headphones or an in-home stereo system.
Battery-powered, the Cordless Internet Radio can be placed anywhere in the home, up to 100 meters from a Bluetooth access point that has a broadband Internet connection.
The Internet Radio can also be connected via the Ethernet cable to a broadband modem.
"Increasingly, the way we connect to the Internet in the home will not just be from a computer but from a range of small to medium-sized products," said Lars Lindberg, Vice-President and General Manager, Ericsson Home Communications.
Also launch at Cebit by Ericsson was the CommunicCam, a mobile camera for GSM.
The camera will let users send instant pictures from a mobile phone to an e-mail address or store them in a virtual photo album. The CommunicCam weighs just 25g.
Users simply snap the camera on to the end of a mobile phone, flip the phone up to the eye and shoot.
The CommuniCam can be used with any Ericsson mobile phone equipped with a modem and the image can be sent as an e-mail, added to the user's personal WebAlbum on the Ericsson Mobile Internet portal, stored in the camera or deleted.
The camera is controlled through menus in the phone's display and up to five images can be stored in the camera for later use. CommuniCam supports 352x288 pixel image resolution with a colour depth of 24 bits.
No details of launch date or price guide for the Irish market were released by Ericsson but the company did say that the camera will be commercially launched during the third quarter of 2001.
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