Cingular to Offer Radio Service

Mika24 writes "Red Herring is reporting that Cingular Wireless will launch a new over-the-air-radio service in conjunction with the TV service they will offer with MobiTV." The music programming will be done by Music Choice and will include rock, urban, country, reggae, jazz, electronica, and classical. From the article: "MobiRadio uses the improving screen capabilities on cell phones to offer album art and information about songs and artists during playback. Cingular said it will expand that capability to let subscribers purchase related ringtones and other content while the music is playing--a set of features made popular by satellite radio providers."

Comments

I don't get it

[ThatGeek]

I don't get it. At all.

What's the point of this service? All those guys and gals with ipods won't care; they already have a better tool for playing the music that they like. Few others will have earbuds for their phones, so they'll either have to put the music on speaker phone (often not available on cells) and annoy everyone around them, or hold their phones up to their ear for hours at a time while they listen to the music.

I can't wait until people start using up their airtime minutes listening to messages like "this music brought to you by [advertiser's name here]".

Rather than trying to bundle music with phones, why can't they bundle wireless more cheaply? Even just improving connectivity with email would be pretty huge in my mind.

over-the-air-radio service

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Wireless radio? Who had ever tought that would be possible. Now we'll be able to listen to radio in our cars! Soon these might even be small enough to be carried around. I expect that to happen in the near future, sometime around 1950 or so.