LG and Omnifone to Launch Music Station
Following Nokia’s announcement last year about launching unlimited music service to all Nokia owners: “Comes With Music”, LG has announced that it will launch it’s own music library called “MusicStation Max”.
LG has teamed up with Omnifone, UK based company that provides this service in 40 countries worldwide. In UK, Vodafone already uses their services.
According to Financial Times, users who buy LG handset will be able to access more than 1.5 million tracks and download them to their handset.
LG promised to make this service available before June 2008, which is ahead of Nokia’s announced music service. It is interesting to see how mobile phone manufacturers are now aggressively trying to enter music market, trying to compete with other electronic music retailers such as Apple’s Itunes. Currently Omnifone has agreement with Universal Music Group to provide music, but will try to sign up other labels as well.
Tracks are delivered in Enhanced Advanced Audio Coding format (eAAC+) over 2.5 or 3G networks.
Do you listen to music on you mobile phone? Do you download full tracks to your mobile? Do you think all these new services that are being launched will be useful to mobile users? Share your thoughts with us!
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