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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Sprint and Verizon offer music over-the-air
Previous attempts have been very costly for the consumer, as the data transfer has been added to the cost of the music downloaded. It sounds like these operators have flat-rate data plans, but they are likely capped.
Other limitations noted:
* Phones don't have much of text input capabilities, so hard to enter info about songs etc
* There are not many phones provided by the mentioned operators that can be called music phones
* The Verizon phones support only the Microsoft WMA format
* Music bought from iTunes doesn't work here
* Crappy earphones provided with the phones
There are still many reasons to either buy CDs (so you can generate any audio format you want), or buy and download via a PC (for the convenience etc).
A New Tune for Cell Phones - Yahoo! News
Other limitations noted:
* Phones don't have much of text input capabilities, so hard to enter info about songs etc
* There are not many phones provided by the mentioned operators that can be called music phones
* The Verizon phones support only the Microsoft WMA format
* Music bought from iTunes doesn't work here
* Crappy earphones provided with the phones
There are still many reasons to either buy CDs (so you can generate any audio format you want), or buy and download via a PC (for the convenience etc).
A New Tune for Cell Phones - Yahoo! News
