mobile music: September 2008 Archives

Play a song into your cellphone and have it identified service Shazam, and Samsung are partnering and he Shazam service will be embedded into Samsung mobiles, including the latest Beat b (model: M3510) and the Beat s (model: M3200) mobiles.

The Shazam application on Samsung's new phones allows users to seamlessly discover music simply by holding their mobiles to the tune for just a few seconds and then go on to buy identified tracks through operators' dedicated music stores.

Shazam fully integrates with operators' music stores to allow users to download tracks directly to their handsets. T-Mobile is the first operator to offer this service from its own music store integrated onto Samsung's new music phones.

The Shazam application enables music lovers to tap into a vast database of more than six million tracks and is already used by 20 million music lovers around the world in over 60 countries.

Shazam rported its application for the iPhone has been downloaded by over 1.5 million people in the first six weeks of its availability on the Apple App Store. The applications allows users to play a song into an iPhone to be identified and shared.

The application has been one of the most popular applications available for the iPhone and its ease of use has made iPhone users some of the most prolific Shazamers having identified more than 20 million music tracks in the last two months.

The application allows users to identify music tracks, watch the related videos on YouTube, and buy identified tracks through iTunes straight to the iPhone. Users can also tag the identified tracks with photos to instantly capture the moment and share these memories with friends.

Seventh Generation's new add campaign "Show the World What's Inside," has in it a mobile cleaning ingredient guide application.

The Label Reading Guide mobile application helps consumers navigate the cleaning aisle at the grocery store by providing an interactive glossary of commonly used on-pack terms and ingredients. It does not tell you, however, how to clean the smudges off your cell phone.

Now you can listen to your iTunes music right on your wireless phone with Alltel Wireless and  nuTsie, a service that allows users to listen to playlists from their iTunes libraries on over 10 Alltel wireless handsets. In addition, nuTsie enables users to share those lists with friends across the Internet and on their mobile devices.

nuTsie, available for $4.99 a month or $19.99 for one year, can be accessed by visiting Alltel Shop located on the handset. Besides being able to play music from their iTunes collections, customers can also listen to recommended music based on their playlists and explore hundreds of thousands of playlists from other users and nuTsie's music experts, providing a n

The nuTsie application, developed by Melodeo, a leader in mobile and online media, is available on a wide range of including the MOTORAZRTM V3m and V3c, the MOTOKRZR K1m, theäAlltel devices the MOTORAZR2 V9m and MOTOROKRTM Z6m. Additional handsets include the LG AX565, The Wave by LG, the LG AX8600, Samsung MuseTM, the Alltel HueTM by Samsung and The WaferTM by Samsung. More Alltel handsets supporting nuTsie will be announced in the coming months.

 

Sony Ericsson announced the launch of PlayNow plus music download service for Sony Ericsson customers, available for use on both phones and PCs. The service is due to launch commercially with Telenor in Sweden in the fourth quarter of this year, with further roll-outs around the world beginning in early 2009. A special edition of the Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman phone will be the first product released with an integrated PlayNow plus service.

PlayNow plus will guarantee truly unlimited, 'all-you-can-eat' access to millions of music tracks. While in the service, subscribers will be able to recommend their music tastes to others in the PlayNow plus community, and at the end of their contract they will keep a number of tracks-DRM-free-from their most played favorites.

PlayNow plus is designed as the world's easiest unlimited music service to manage as whatever you do on either your phone or your PC may be reflected on the other device. To add to the discovery and community aspects of PlayNow plus, TrackID charts, generated by Sony Ericsson consumers around the world, are also included. To kick-start the PlayNowplus experience right out of the box, Sony Ericsson plans to include, as part of the service, up to 1000 of recent popular tracks, both locally and globally, with each PlayNow plus phone.

The Amazon MP3 music store will be pre-loaded on the T-Mobile G1.Mobile G1 users can search, download, buy and play music from Amazon MP3, which offers over 6 million DRM-free MP3 songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independent labels that can be played on virtually any hardware device and managed with any music software.

Downloading music from Amazon MP3 using the T-Mobile G1 requires a Wi-Fi connection but searching, browsing, listening to samples and buying MP3s can be done wherever customers are connected to the T-Mobile network. Downloaded MP3s can be played anytime on the T-Mobile G1, PCs, Macs or any other MP3 music player.