Kris Kumar
12-28-2004, 05:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7131967' target='_blank'>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7131967</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Music Choice and Sprint are launching a music service that allows mobile phone users to view short videoclips and listen to radio-like programming on their handsets. The service, Music Choice Today, bows Monday and offers Sprint subscribers streaming access to Music Choice audio channels via their cell phones. For $5.99 per month, users can listen to a range of genres and formats, including R&B/hip-hop, pop, country and rock. The service also features music news and daily video snippets of artist interviews and performances originally produced by Music Choice. Music Choice president/CEO Dave Del Beccaro says the service is designed to allow consumers to experience a "few quick minutes of music" in their spare time, such as when waiting in line or at doctors' offices, train stations and airports."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-SprintMusicChoice.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Right now this service being offered by Sprint is available only on the Sanyo Multimedia Phone MM-7400. But as the high speed wireless networks grow, we will see more services like these. Recently in India one of the cellular companies <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041208/cell_phone_movie_1.html">premiered</a> a movie on the handsets to promote its high speed EDGE network. 8O As for me, I am not anxiously waiting for my carrier to roll out its high speed network for me to take advantage of video and audio streaming on my Smartphone. I have setup my own streaming server at home, that enables me to listen to my favorite TV station's audio while I am on the road, using the Smartphone and T-Mobile's GPRS based data network. :wink: