A U.K. startup hope to compete with Apple ’s Modern iPhone by offering a prostrate - rate music servicing that can hightail it on most of today ’s nomadic phone .
Omnifone launch on Thursday itsMusicStationservice that allows mobile phone substance abuser to download as many music tracks as they want for € 2.99 ( US$ 3.97 ) per workweek . The company preview MusicStation in February at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona .
The Swedish mobile phone subsidiary of Norse telco Telenor is the first to extend the MusicStation service . More than 30 operator in Europe , Asia and South Africa have signed up to offer the service .
To expend MusicStation , user must have handsets preinstalled with the app . “ MusicStation runs on any Java and medicine - enabled equipment , ” said Omnifone spokesman Tim Hadley . “ We ’re spill about 75 per centum of the phone currently available on the market . ”
The caller design to have more than 100 million MusicStation - enable handset within the next 12 months .
Omnifone has develop software package that allows its program to be ported to the many different type of Java used on mobile phones , according to Hadley .
One of the main benefits of MusicStation is quick and easy pilot and download — unlike many of the carrier music portals , ground on WAP ( Wireless Access Protocol ) technology , which can be clock time - consuming and unmanageable to shop , according to the spokesman . “ The app is very comparable to an MP3 player exploiter experience , ” he said .
Downloads to mobile phones over 3 guanine ( third - contemporaries ) mobile headphone web can take between 30 seconds and one minute , all of which can happen in the backcloth . The service also consort on GPRS ( General Packet Radio Service ) net .
Omnifone has signed licensing deal with several large music companies , including EMI Music , Sony BMG , Universal Music Group and Warner Music International . “ We ’re start out with over 1 million tracks , ” Hadley say .
DRM ( digital rightfulness direction ) technology protect all of the music .
The mobile MusicStation military service includes several feature , such as messaging and the ability to share playlists and track .
Over the next few month , the fellowship plans to offer a MusicStation desktop covering . For an additional € 1 per month , customers can have all of the raceway download to their wandering phones automatically download to their PCs when they log on to the portal serving , according to Hadley .
Operators , medicine company and Omnifone will split revenue generated by MusicStation .
Apple announced this week that iPhone user will involve an report for its iTunes Store euphony service before touch off the twist . The iPhone debuts in the U.S. on June 29 .
