Travel Technology - Sprint offering full-song downloads
Sprint offering full-song downloads
Firm becomes first big wireless carrier to provide service
...In a move certain to be followed by competitors, Sprint opened its ''store," from which subscribers carrying one of its phones can download music at a hefty cost of $2.50 per song...
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/11/01/sprint_offering_full_song_downloads/
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Wow! Are these folks going crazy? Who in the world would ever use this service?
Mark
gosflyer
Nov 1, 05, 3:05 pm
Maybe the same people that pay $14.99 for two episodes of the first season of Lost for the PSP. The same two episodes cost $4.98 in iTunes.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AAJTLG/102-2449834-3445764?v=glance
Maybe the same people that pay $14.99 for two episodes of the first season of Lost for the PSP. The same two episodes cost $4.98 in iTunes.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AAJTLG/102-2449834-3445764?v=glance
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Could well be, I suppose! ;)
Mark
chuckd
Nov 7, 05, 10:52 pm
Why not just buy a phone with a memory card slot that lets you play aac or mp3s. $2.50 a song? The people who buy this stuff deserve to get ripped off.
Why not just buy a phone with a memory card slot that lets you play aac or mp3s. $2.50 a song? The people who buy this stuff deserve to get ripped off.
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Perhaps so, Chuck.
FWIW...
Music phones: Almost there
...At first glance, it seems like the perfect combination: I hear a song somewhere, and I instantly download it to my handset (which, theoretically, now doubles as my primary MP3 player). That's the signal Sprint is trying to send, as evidenced by the commercial I saw on TV last night. The guy in the commercial downloaded a song in about three or four seconds. If that's the way it really worked, I'd be a happy camper (assuming the price for the download wasn't prohibitive)...
http://www.commsdesign.com/news/insights/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174402580