Sweet Mobile Music

We all like to listen to our favourite music whether it be on our MP3 player or on our mobile phones built in music player. It therefore may be of interest to O2 customers that they are joining forces with Napster (a leading digital music company) to launch a mobile music download service for their customers.

The new service will be launched this weekend on Saturday 15th March, and will compete with Vodafone’s MusicStation, and Nokia’s Music Store which were both launched in quarter four last year. The service will be available on the O2 active portal and will only be available on selected handsets at first, with the number of compatible handsets set to increase in the near future.

A promotional price of 99p per track or £4 for five tracks has been set. This price includes two copies of your selected song, with one copy going to your moile phone and the other copy being emailed to you, to enable you to store the track on your computer. The price of the service after the three month promotional period is unknown. Nokia’s Music Store charges 80p for a single track and £8 for an entire album, and Vodafone charge 99p per track or £5.99 per album or you can sign up to MusicStation which has a weekly subscription of £1.99, but allows the user to download unlimited music tracks.

O2 claim that Napster’s music catalogue of over 5 million songs is the largest of all the other rival mobile music services. Whichever service you choose your mobile phone will be making sweet mobile music!

This and many other articles on mobile phones and the latest mobile phone deals was written by John Gray.

John Gray's writing can often be found at http://www.onecompare.com.