The Wall Street Journal – Sprint Brings Music Direct to Cellphones, But Price Is Too High
> I have been testing the new Sprint Music Store and found it works well. The user interface is clean and simple, even on a small screen. The downloads, and playing of previews, are very fast over Sprint’s new broadband-class Power Vision network, which is required to use the music store, though it’s deployed in only parts of the country so far. Song playback sounded good on both phones I tested.
At $2.50 per song, I can’t really see the point. Just about all the cellphones produced the last few years have support for Bluetooth and/or USB, and transferring your own songs is as easy as pie.
I don’t know much about the cellphone business in the US, but here in Scandinavia, content providers have been offering fulltrack downloads in good quality for a buck since ages ago. They usually don’t have an enormous selection of music, but that’s more a licensing problem than a technology problem.
