Sony Ericsson announced a slew of new phones yesterday, including the particularly drool-worthy K790i and K800i with their Cybershot-branded 3.2-megapixel cameras. But they’ve got some interesting software, too — a moblogging application that works with Google’s Blogger service. Assuming operators leave the application intact on the versions of the phones they sell, this could give [...]
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Merkitys Uploads and GeoTags Photos
Here’s an interesting and free application. Merkitys is available for Series 60 Nokias and both uploads your photos to Flickr and geotags them at the same time, all with one click.
Merkitys is the Finnish word for “meaning”, which doubles my Finnish vocabulary – I also know Turve as that’s how Nokia people start emails. But [...]
Cingular Launches 40 Streaming Channels
Following US rival Sprint’s earlier launch of streaming audio channels from Sirius and Music Choice, Cingular says its subscribers can now listen to 40 channels of streaming content for $7 a month plus traffic fees.
While 40 channels is nothing to sniff at, the cost could be, unless subscribers stump up the $20 per month for [...]
Sprint Bulks Up Streaming
A week after launching its streaming channels from Sirius, Sprint now says it’s teamed up with RealNetworks to offer another streaming service with “five music channels, podcasts, music news and videos.”
Is anybody using any of these? Would be nice to hear your experiences with them.
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Sprint Nextel Plans Music Service
Sprint Nextel’s president says the company will launch a “mass market” mobile music download service in time for Christmas. That’s about all he said — exciting, we know.
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More Pointless Exclusivity
For everybody that just switched to T-Mobile to get all that great exclusive Robbie Williams content, you may have moved too soon — now Verizon Wireless has “exclusive” Black Eyed Peas ringback tones.
I’m hard pressed to think of anybody that would care about this enough to switch to Verizon or start using ringbacks. I’ll have [...]
Virgin USA Boss — Consumers Want Open Music Phones
Daniel Schulman, the head of Virgin Mobile USA, says handset manufacturers and mobile operators looking to make the network the only way to move music onto a handset are set to make a big mistake. “”I believe that ignoring the PC as an integral part of what at least the youth market accepts as its [...]
O2 Signs Musician To Exclusive Contract
Half of UK dance duo Groove Armada will supply operator O2 with exclusive tracks for its customers to download, says the Guardian, “in an attempt to gain control over digital downloading”. Musician Andy Cato will supply O2 with 2 tracks available only to its customers per week, which will sell for GBP 1, with the [...]
Ericsson, Napster To Make Music
Ericsson and Napster said today they’ll create a mobile music service to sell to mobile operators. The white-label system will offer PC-based and over-the-air downloads, as well as support multiple flavors of DRM, not just the Microsoft technology employed by Napster’s PC service, so as to accommodate OMA DRM.
The system will support both subscription [...]
Moto iRadio = Podcasting for $$$?
At the same event as the previous post, somebody from Motorola was pooh-poohing multimedia streaming and downloads over mobile networks (again) in an attempt to talk up the company’s iRadio product.
Derek Kerton over at Techdirt caught a demo of iRadio, with a Linux-based smartphone connecting to a car stereo. As Motorola is so keen to [...]
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