Sprint Announces Music Service
October 31st, 2005 3:58 PM | by Christen da Costa | 1 Comment
For a fee of $2.50, Sprint customers can download a singular song directly to their phone. The Sprint Music Store provides two copies: 1 for your phone and 1 for your computer. The Sprint Music store’s catalog is derived from such labels as EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group – basically leaves out the independents.
The catch is that the service require Sprint’s Power Vision wireless broadband network. The network currently covers, according to Sprint, 130 million people.
This news comes just as Samsung announces its plans to launch its own music service.
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[...] As part of Sprint’s Ambassador program they decided to send us a Samsung A920 to test out. Included in the test is 6 months of unlimited voice and data on Sprint Vision. Let me just point out that no matter how good the offer, we’ll never skew our reviews. My first impressions: Sprint’s music service is easy to use, is highspeed (takes 15-20 seconds to download a song), and is a tad on the expensive side ($2.95/song), but the pay off is that you can download the song to your phone and computer. I was disappointed to find out that the computer downloadable version is WMA only, and that makes it useless to me as a Mac user. Locating and downloading the already phone purchased song is as easy as visiting their site, and punching in your pass code. On another slightly negative note, I did notice you have to get online to use the songs you’ve already downloaded. I am guessing this is part of Sprint’s digital rights management. This might mean exuberant data fees for anyone who wants to listen to tunes regularly on their phone, but a safe bet is that there’s little to no data transferred during this process.I have yet to locate Sprint’s TV content. There is an On Demand menu option, but this seems to be text only and provides up to date score, weather, stock quotes, etc. [...]