Omnifone have announced their unlimited mobile handset music programme, dubbed MusicStationMax. Similarly to what Nokia's "Comes With Music" offering should be, this basically means that once you buy a handset that has this service bundled, you can listen to any track in their database for 18 months (this is more than Nokia's 12 months).
What's more, there will also be a PC-companion product, that will keep everything in sync between the handset and the computer.
And the first manufacturer-partner is...(drums)...LG! Their MusicStation Max handsets are due out in the first half of this year.
It is still unclear to me if this is a streaming service or a download service, but nevertheless, it looks like Nokia's announcement of "Comes With Music" (why haven't we heard any news on this yet?) 'inspired' others. Very good. Bring on the handsets, LG and Nokia!
[Source: SMS Text News]
[UPDATE]
Engadget brought us some more information, and it seems that this service will indeed be a "download and keep" service, will come in 12 or 18-month forms (probably dependant on the phone). Sideloading and syncing between phone and PC are still there. Very interesting, I must say.
A competitor for Nokia's "Comes With Music"
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
