iPhone Threatened by New Music Service
February 10, 2007 by dennis
London, UK based startup company Omnifone is about to launch a new subscription-based music service, which will give its subscribers unlimited access to over 1 million songs for a small monthly fee of less than £10 (US ~$18).
At least 20 mobile operators are said to be working with Omnifone, including Vodafone and the 3 Group. The project is backed by Universal Music and other major record labels. Although a similar service existed in Korea for years, Omnifone’s launch within the next few months will be the first such service in Europe.
This goes in direct competition with Apple’s plans for iPhone, which will download tracks from the iTunes Music Store on a pay-per-download basis.
The service boasts intelligent memory management, which will delete rarely played tracks so as not to take too much space on the mobiles, an iPod-like software interface, and compatibility with 75% of existing mobile handsets. In addition to that it will support both 3G and slower 2.5G mobile networks.
This can put a damper on iPhone’s sales, when it reaches Europe at the end of this year.
Source: The Sunday Times.
Tags: app, Apple, Europe, iPhone, UK
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iPhone Threatened by New Music Service
Article by dennis
Dennis Sloutsky is one of the oldest members of iPhoneWorld.ca, having co-started the site in January 2007. He stills owns an iPhone 2G and uses it sometimes just for fun. His hobbies include traveling, writing and playing his guitar.
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