Android Phone Comes With Amazon.com MP3 Store

By Eric Blair
16:50, September 23rd 2008
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Android Phone Comes With Amazon.com MP3 Store

The upcoming Google mobile phone, the T-Mobile G1, which is the first mobile phone to use Google’s Android operating system, is going to give Apple’s iPhone/iTunes duo some competition by including Amazon’s MP3 store by default with the new phone.

The mobile version of Amazon’s content distribution system will allow users to browse, preview and buy music with their phone’s cellular connection (WAP), but will require that the phone be connected by Wi-Fi to the internet for the songs to download directly to the mobile(unlike iTunes which is totally inaccessible without Wi-Fi). This will allow you to buy and queue music on the go, and later download it when you get to a hotspot.

Bill Carr, Amazon digital music and video president, has stated that "Amazon wants to make it easy for customers to discover, buy, and play their music wherever they happen to be -- whether sitting at their computer or on the go," therefore "We look forward to the release of the T-Mobile G1, which will put Amazon MP3's vast selection of low-priced DRM-free music at the fingertips of even more customers in more places.” Yep that’s right, there is no DRM protection whatsoever on the songs.

That, at least, is a breath of fresh air compared to iTunes’ FairPlay DRM tech which barely allows you to play your songs on anything other than an iPod. Between the iTunes behemoth and Amazon’s DRM-free upstart, Google must have thought it not worth the hassle to try and create another music store and found it better to just team up with Amazon.

One of the main ways that Apple has stayed on top of the market for years is the fact that they design products which look pleasant and are easy to use, but with the G1’s slide-out hardware QWERTY keyboard, and more convenient music store, it seems that Google/Amazon are about to bite a serious chunk out of Apple’s pie.



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