5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner app review: get the latest news and entertainment, unfiltered by the media

Introduction

If you want to keep up to date on the latest happenings locally and worldwide, 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner is just the app for you! All you need is an iPhone or iPad to access tens of thousands of live news and entertainment feeds from all over the world.

Featured on news organizations such as 9to5 Mac, MacWorld, and Wired Magazine, this app enables you to stream over 35,000 stations including police radio, firefighters, EMA, air traffic control rooms, and music channels directly to your iPhone or iPad.

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Fresh Listings And Changeable Interface

5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner consists of the biggest database of feeds in any app. Feeds can be located using keywords, such as the name of your city if you want to look for local feeds, or entering names of bands or genres to find a channel that matches your musical preferences. You can also turn on location services to help you search nearby feed sources.

New feeds are added every few hours and the listings are constantly updated as soon as you connect to the app. The interface of this app is entirely changeable. You can select free skins to download or have your own custom-made skin to suit your stylistic aesthetics.

 

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Sharing and Surfing

Stay in tune with big events by looking through the Top 100 most listened-to channels. This app is available through several countries including U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and Chile, to name a few. If you are listening to a particular feed and wish to discuss its contents, you have the option of chatting with people who are listening to the same feeds.

One of my favorite features about 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner is that you can listen to the live feeds in the background even while you are running other apps. I thoroughly enjoy listening to the music channel feeds while surfing the web or running Facebook. The web can be surfed using the in-built browser, which is a powerful, ad-free add-on.

I also like that I can share my favorite tracks with friends (via email) without having to convince them to buy the app too!

 

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Pros & Cons

Pros

• Enjoy over 35,000 channels including police, firefighters, air traffic control, and music stations
• Search for feeds using keywords such as your location, or favorite music genre
• Customize your interface to optimize your enjoyment
• Share your favorite feeds with friends and family via email

 

Cons

• Users may be unwilling to purchase an app when similar ones are available for free

 

Final Words

Whether you like to stay on top of the latest stories, or simply like to have some background noise while you work on your iPhone or iPad, 5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner is a great app to use. It may, however, be priced a bit too highly for people to actually go ahead and buy it because similar apps are available in the iTunes store for free, albeit with fewer features.