Labels Agree On Free Music Downloads To Cell Phones

An anonymous reader writes "CNet's Crave reports on a potentially revolutionary digital music service set to launch worldwide later this year. It's offering free, unlimited over-the-air downloads to cell phones, with music from all four major record labels, with no subscription. And the selections that users download get automatically downloaded to their PC or Mac. Rather obviously, the tracks are DRMed, but unlike the similar Nokia service unveiled last year to much disappointment, this MusicStation Max service will have exclusive handsets from LG and no additional fees to customers. This is a little similar to an idea talked about last year, but with all four majors on-board it seems to have greater potential."

Comments

Call me a dinosaur...

[Stormwatch]

...but I still don't get why a telephone should have any functions other than MAKE PHONE CALLS and STORE PHONE NUMBERS.

Re:Call me a dinosaur...

[ozmanjusri]

Then buy one that does what you want and leave the cool stuff to the rest of us.

This comment pops up in EVERY damned discussion of advanced phones and it's ALWAYS moderated insightful by mods with more points than sense. It is NOT insightful. It is nothing more than a statement of personal taste by someone with luddite tendecies.

Phones already exist for luddites. This discussion is not about those phones. If you want to discuss those phones go and find somewhere else to discuss them, or submit an article of your own to the Firehose.