NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES 10/12/04 Today's focus: Buy music through your cell phone
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Find out what we uncovered when we assembled 23 wireless products trying to get to the answer. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84766 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Buy music through your cell phone By Keith Shaw Is the world ready for another 99-cent music store? AT&T Wireless certainly hopes so, as last week it launched the mMode Music Store, allowing customers to discover, browse, listen to (30-second clips) and buy digital music tracks from their cell phone. The store has approximately 750,000 songs available, and was built in cooperation with Loudeye and Microsoft, AT&T Wireless said. Customers can use their cell phones to select and purchase the music, and then download the track when they log on to the Music Store ( <http://www.attwireless.com/music> ) on their computer. Songs are downloaded in the Windows Media Audio 9 format, and can be burned onto a CD, or transferred to any mobile music device that supports WMA. Billing is then done to either the AT&T Wireless statement or a user's credit card. So for the moment, you can use your cell phone to browse, find and buy the music, but we aren't at the point where you can download the entire song to the cell phone. However, the company said in a statement that the unique aspects of the music store's wireless distribution platform will provide for extra services, such as when handsets begin to include direct-to-device song download features, over the coming months. The new music store also ties into AT&T Wireless' Music ID service, which lets users hold up their phone to a speaker where a song is playing, and the service returns in a text message the name of the song and the artist. With the new store, a link will be provided in the text message, letting the user buy the song that was just identified for them. Devices that support the 30-second sample track feature include the Nokia 6620, 3650, 3620, N-Gage and the Motorola MPX200. Another feature is that users can save song titles that they like to their phone, and then check the songs out later online. I certainly like the idea of this, although I'd rather just wait until the wireless data networks are robust enough to be able to handle a 4M-byte file download quickly so I can download a file directly to the music device itself and not have to use the PC as an intermediary. The mMode Music Store can be accessed over the GSM/GPRS network at the moment, which makes over-the-air downloads nearly impossible. Maybe you could do such downloads with EDGE, or with the Verizon EV-DO broadband service, but not with CDMA 1x or GSM/GPRS. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Keith Shaw Keith Shaw is Senior Reviews Editor at Network World. In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/cooltools.html> " column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices. You can reach Keith at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Nokia Get more done in more places with Nokia. Nokia's wide range of mobile devices gives you the freedom to work on your own terms. Whether you're en route, stationed at home, or roaming the corporate campus, Nokia has the solutions to boost productivity. 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