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Cingular's Free Music

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beer-with-a-subscription-fee dept.

PreacherTom writes "Music on one's mobile phone is nothing surprising: in fact, it is the entire principle of the upcoming iPhone. Downloading it for free is a different matter; both Verizon and Sprint's service directs to a proprietary store and charges up to $2.50 per song. Cingular plans on taking another route, having announced that they are gearing up to offer free music downloads to compatible phones. They hope to make up the difference through fees from the music subscription services for each new reference. The catch: a $15 per month fee."

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  1. Yippity fucking doo. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's free as long as you pay $180 per year. Sorry if I'm overly excited.

  2. Re:"free" by revlayle · · Score: 2, Funny

    My thoughts exactly...

    It's NOT free... as in beer

  3. they didn't say what they meant by free by otacon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not Free as in Freedom
    Not Free as in Beer
    Free as in '$15 a month'

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    1. Re:they didn't say what they meant by free by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You keep using that word. But I don't think it means what you think it means.

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  4. Meh. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real method to get free music on most mid-priced phones, is hold the phone up toward a cheap speaker and hit "record" on the voice memo feature. On the phone's crappy mono speaker, the end result will be indistinguishable from if you somehow imported lossless uncompressed PCM data from the studio masters.

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  5. When dealing with any business, and most people... by Churla · · Score: 2, Informative

    The simple rule is TANSTAAFL

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  6. Re:Meh. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny
    You obviously live in the US. I've seen teenagers in the UK and Japan doing that.
    People in the US do it too, just not the smart ones. There's one guy on my bus home who seems to really love playing the same 5-second-long 50 Cent ringtone over and over again. If our bus ever stalls somewhere while trapping us inside somehow, he'll be the first one killed and eaten by savage commuters.
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