Virgin Mobile USA will start swapping ads for airtime, similar to the concept Xero Mobile has been toutinng. This will be the first attempt to use ads by any of the major US Mobile carriers or MVNO's for that matter.

The Advertisements will be web-based streaming videos, SMS messages or questionnaires. It takes one 30-second video, two SMS messages or one minute anwering a questionnaire to get 1 minute of airtime. There is a maximum of 75 free minutes that can be earned towards an account each month. The advertiser lineup includes Microsoft’s Xbox, Pepsi-Cola, and the American Legacy Foundation.

Industry analysts still speculate -- Roger Entner with Ovum Research states: "The kinds of consumers willing to swap their time for airtime were not likely to be big spenders. If you’re too cheap to buy a minute of air time, how are you going to afford an Xbox?” Entner said. The people likely to earn minutes for free “are people who want to avoid costs at any cost.”

Nevertheless, Virgin's new dubbed "Sugarmama" is scheduled to be launched on June 14th.

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Posted by mobilemodo at 10:19 AM | Permalink Posted to MVNO | Mobile Content | News | Virgin Mobile

Mobile ESPN has announced that it will release exclusive content for the 2006 MLB season to mobile subscribers. The suite of wireless mobile content is designed around the upcoming 2006 baseball season.

Mobile ESPN's MLB features:
In-game video highlight clips of each ESPN telecast game (150 games)
Scoreboards with game status information and real-time scores for all Major League Baseball games
Personalized content for favorite teams and players, including video highlights and alerts
Real-time ESPN.com Fantasy team control
Game updates and video analysis of key plays

Mobile ESPN is an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) that currently uses the super fast Sprint EV-DO network, which provides feature rich sports content, and access to video and music for rabid sports fans.

[via Mobiledia]

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Posted by mobilemodo at 11:15 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | News

This time it is not Google, but another California-based company called Promptu - previously known as AgileTV has launched a unique voice-based search application for cell phones. It allows you to search for mobile content by speaking into the handset, thus avoiding the endless clicking and scrolling to find information. Users just have say a voice command like "Find Beatles" or "Find ESPN" into their handset and the results are returned back within seconds.

“The current method of countless clicks and scrolls to search and buy mobile content can be a frustrating experience for users, and too many abandon their searches altogether,” said Brady O. Bruce, senior vice president of Telecom Products and Services who leads Promptu’s mobile business initiatives.

Promptu Mobile is not the only speech search technology company on the block, V-Enable a venture funded company is also vying for some marketshare in this space.

[via moconews]

Posted by mobilemodo at 04:05 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | News

Sprint announced today that they will be launching customized mobile content for college hoops made-for-mobile collegiate hoops programming to its customers. Sprint will have what’s called “Sprint Tournament Center” – which will be the cornerstone of the exclusive college hoops content.

Along with offering college basketball wireless content, they will also showcase breaking news and tournament analysis. Other features available will be -- complete game scores, reminders and nail clinching alerts for games winding down to the last few minutes.

"Sprint continues to provide innovative, meaningful mobile content to its customers," said Jeff Hallock, vice president of marketing for Sprint. "Mobile phones offer so much more than just voice applications today - and we're literally 'changing the game' for the better with this original content. Sports fans are active, engaged and invested in these games - they want instant and up-to-the-minute access to their teams."

Sprint Original Programming will be produced in a studio by Intersport for the first 2 weeks, and on-site for the final week. The mobile-exclusive content will be free to all Sprint Vision and Power Vision subscribers, or any Nextel Data Access subscriber using a Java enabled wireless phones.

The mobile application will be available on March 13th for download, and can be initiated by texting the word "HOOPS" to the shortcode address of 7777.

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:36 AM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | Mobile Content | News | Sprint Nextel

Cingular Wireless, the largest cell-phone carrier in the United States, is set to launch a new video service for two new phones. Subscribers will pay $20 a month for access to clips from the Cartoon Network, Fox News, NBC and others. The service will use Cingular’s high-speed data network, which is available in 16 cities.

For an extra $5 a month, 3-5 minute clips of HBO shows like the Sopranos will be available as well. Two phones, from Samsung and from LG, will go on sale Tuesday for the service. Each will cost $99 with a two-year contract. The service is similar to Verizon Wireless’ $15-a-month Vcast service, which launched in February last year in some markets.

Cingular and some other carriers already provide live TV on some handsets, using different technology called MobiTV. Cingular charges $20 a month for that service. Cingular is a joint venture of BellSouth Corp. and AT&T Inc. On Sunday, AT&T announced a deal to buy BellSouth for $67 million, which would give AT&T complete control of Cingular.

Cingular’s high-speed network is available in Austin, Texas; Baltimore; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City; San Diego; San Francisco; San Jose, Calif.; Seattle; Tacoma, Wash.; and Washington, D.C.

Posted by mobilemodo at 01:56 PM | Permalink Posted to Cingular | Mobile Content | Mobile TV | News

Toshiba has announced the adoption of SDK's (Showa Denko K.K.) 4GB .85-inch-diameter hard disk media, currently the smallest disk in the world for their latest mobile phone the Toshiba "Music-HDD W41T".

SDK started commercial production in June of 2005, of the media drive that is about the same in size as a memory card. The HD media provides large capacity sufficient for receipt of music via Internet.

Toshiba W41T mobile media features:
5,000 pictues
Mobile Videos
18 hours of video
Mobile Music

Toshiba's partnership in this deal solidifies SDK as the largest independant supplier of HD media. It is estimated that SDK will ramp up production to 24 million disk per month by 2008, showing the increasing needs of mobile users to have media storage for mobile applications.

Along with the W41T, Toshiba has also launched other phones into the European market, notably the Toshiba TS10, TS803 and TS921. This phone is not expectedc to be released into the US.

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:01 AM | Permalink Posted to 3G | Mobile Content | News

We saw three big mobile media deals announced this week that will take advantage of the cellular phone market, mostly credited to the rollout of next generation 3G high-speed EVDO and UMTS networks across the U.S. The kicker to these deals will be how to generate enough money to pay for the release of new mobile content offerings.

Viacom will be one of the first to bring in some cash through the MTV Networks unit, which plans to sell video clips from its MTV, VH1, CMT and Comedy Central channels to Sprint customers. Many large companies plan to fund mobile content with ads to subsidize the development.

With Fox News Corporation's recent deal with Mobizzo it planned to sell games, ring tones and gadgets for mobile handsets. Mobizzo plans to aggressively distribute and produce content specially catered to the mobile market.

CBS also announced this week that they will launch a service dubbed News to Go Mobile Alerts that will send news in the form of short video clips on some cellphones. ESPN and NBC already offer similar service to CBS' media message launch.

Google and ABC have just announced that they have just made a deal to release mobile news by letting Google provide live daily webcasts of "World News Now" with top search term rankings each day. Internet capable cell phones users can also go to Google.com and search for ABC headline news with this deal.

As Google's Mobile strategy continues to rapidly evolve, you can catch some of the other Google mobile services that include Google Local for Mobile, a mobile mapping and driving directions software application along with Gmail Mobile, a homepage personalization option.

Posted by mobilemodo at 08:50 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | Mobile Content | News

Large companies with major brands are planning to push ads to mobile phones at the rate of 89%, according to a recent study. Major wireless carriers like Sprint and Verizon have already been testing ads on cellphones.

The mobile marketing machine is prepping for a quick acceleration with major carriers ready to discount mobile content with ad subsidies. With the rapid rollout of 3G Ev-Do networks by Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, they surely will not let this excess bandwidth go to waste. MVNO's are also jamming the door--ready to jump on the bandwagon of lucrative new market segment where mobile content and mobile tv will soon drive growth.

One study conducted by Airwide Solutions showed that by 2008, 89 percent of brands plan to use text and multimedia messaging to reach their audience. The amount budgeted for marketing with quickly accelerate from a small percentage of around 10% or less, to quickly over 50% of total marketing budgets aimed at mobile marketing.

[via BusinessWire]

Posted by mobilemodo at 10:28 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | News

Fox Mobile Entertainment is jumping on the wireless content bandwagon, by unveiling a new Web site to swap games, music and images for mobile phones. With some big bucks backing up this deal, it will open the floodgates for the creation of exclusive mobile content for teens and young adults.

Fox's News Corp. just launched Mobizzo, which features mobile content from Fox shows like the “Family Guy,” “Napoleon Dynamite” and the soon to be released film “Ice Age." The Mobizzo site is also offering themed ringtones, images and games from mobile publishers I-Play and Airborne.

Mobizzo content is now available through both subscription and “a la carte”. The offerings can be picked up from Cingular Wireless or T-Mobile USA with more carriers negotiations that are in the works (Verizon, Sprint).

Fox is bringing an impressive media content library to the wireless scene and with Mobizzo launched as the primary outlet, they will have to go head to head with the likes of Jamster and Blinko who already have a foothold on a segment of the mobile market.

Not to be left in the dust, CBS also announced a service that will deliver text alerts, pictures and video to wireless users. The mobile content from CBS News will cost $1 a month, while E.T. alerts will cost $4 a month. M-Qube, an East Coast mobile tech company is powering CBS' product launch.

Posted by mobilemodo at 01:59 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | Mobile TV | News

CBS announced today that they will launch two new mobile video alert services dubbed "CBS News to Go" and "E.T. News to Go". The CBS News to Go mobile services will be available for phone subscribers starting next week.

These services are really slated for people that insist on being in the know and want a proactive feed of the latest news. You will be able to see bombings and live action video news releases only seconds after they hit the wire.

Each CBS mobile news subscriber will receive up to 5 alerts a day and will always have the option to just receive text, or for feature rich phones video and pictures. Mobile video clips will be delivered in 10-second increments, and will be a prelude to additional mobile service launches like CBS Sports, Live Mobile TV and Soap Operas.

CBS News to Go Alerts will not be restricted to certain wireless carriers despite differences in technologies (CDMA/Ev-DO, GSM/EDGE) but will be available for all cell phone models (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, NEC, HTC, iMate, Treo, etc.) and the big wireless carriers (Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.).

[via Mediabistro]

Posted by mobilemodo at 01:02 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | News

Samsung Electronics has created an impressive ultra-slim satellite DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) mobile phone coded named the SCH-B340. The B340 is officially the slimmest choice from all the terrestrial and satellite DMB phones currently offered on the market today.

Samsung announced Tuesday that it is to launch the SCH-B340, which combines DMB, the hottest Mobile technology issue currently revving up the international mobile phone market, and an ultra-slim design in South Korea this week. Others competing mobile TV capable technologies are also being launched into this emerging market.

Samsung B340 Features:
Satellite DMB capable
Ultra Slim - 17.3mm thick
2 Megapixel Camera
High Definition LCD
MP3 Player
External memory card
Movement sensor stabilization

Hold onto your seats for this hot phone -- because the retail price is estimated to be around $720 U.S. This phone will not yet be available in the U.S. because of DMB technology adoption, and no clues as to whether this phone or another variation will hit the FCC for approval, but you can bet we will keep our eyes out for this one.

Posted by mobilemodo at 08:26 AM | Permalink Posted to 3G | Mobile Content | News | Samsung

Helio announced two new phone launches today, one black and one silver. Helio is planning to officially launch their phone service in the United States this Spring, 2006 as part of a business partnership agreement between Earthlink and SK Telecom of Korea. Helio will use the network agreement they signed recently with Verizon Wireless to provide carrier access to the advanced EvDO network.

The pairing between these technology based companies aims to hook up advanced Korean technology and introduce it to the US market. This joint venture means that Helio will prove to be a big competitor for Amp'd (Amped), Virgin Mobile, XeroMobile, and other hot MVNO's starting this year.

Helio is planning to capitalize on the pre-launch hype by unleashing two phones called the Pantech Hero (black) and VK Mobile Kickflip (silver). Both colors sport high-end handset features-- here's some info:

Black KickFlip
Form Factor - Spinner
Screen - QVGA display w 262k color
Data - EvDO High Speed
Multimedia - MP3-MPEG 4 player
Camera - 2 MegaPixels
Memory - 70MB + T-flash slot
Weight - 4.47oz 4.73oz
Size - 3.88×1.96x.98"

In other news today Helio announced a partnership with MySpace to do an exclusive debut of MySpace Mobile upon service launch. MySpace Mobile will let cell phone users perform the most popular functions that MySpace online provides, which is reading and write messages, viewing and posting photos, browsing profiles, etc.

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Posted by mobilemodo at 01:16 PM | Permalink Posted to Helio Mobile | Mobile Content | News

3GSM 2006 [Barcelona] -- British Telecom, Virgin Mobile, and Microsoft have announced that they will be forming a Mobile TV alliance. The deal between the three companies was revealed at the 3GSM World Congress today.

Virgin Mobile will be the first mobile phone operator in Europe to launch live digital television and radio services on cell phones. BT and Virgin will be able to offer a wide array of digital TV content and more than 350 DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) digital radio stations 24 hours per day.

"Virgin Mobile customers will be the first people in Europe to watch real broadcast TV over their mobile phones," said Graeme Hutchinson, sales and marketing director of Virgin Mobile.

Virgin Mobile reported that they expect to have at least 5 programs available to the public by summertime. The programming will be available over the UK's established Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) network. BT will offer the digital broadcast service on a limited exclusive basis to its customers later this year.
BT and Virgin have also unveiled a new phone made by HTC, the Trilogy, to receive the TV service.

The companies did not reveal any financial details of the agreement or the cost to customers of the new package.

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:50 AM | Permalink Posted to 3GSM | Mobile Content | News | Virgin Mobile

3GSM 2006 [Barcelona] -- Samsung today has officially unveiled the SGH-P900 handset we told our readers here at Mobilemodo about last week. The SGH-P900 sports a plethora of mobile multimedia features that include digital TV, a 2 Megapixel camera, video and much more.

They are setting theirs sights on nabbing the first round of mobile TV addicts, Samsung today unveiled its SGH-P900 cell phone. The SGH-P900 uses the DMB-T standard for digital terrestrial broadcasting and sports a raft of other high-end phone features like audio playback with dedicated buttons and a built-in stereo FM radio.

Samsung SGH-P900 feature set includes:
Compact 92 x 49 x 26 mm size
QVGA 2.2-inch display, 262K high resolution color
Rotating display for landscape TV viewing mode
Tri-band with EDGE + Streaming video at 30 FPS
128 MB onboard memory + MicroSD slot expansion
USB connectivity
Bluetooth Support
TV output jack

The Samsung SGH-P900 is slated for availability 2Q, 2006 with more details on pricing yet to be announced.

Posted by mobilemodo at 11:13 PM | Permalink Posted to 3GSM | Mobile Content | News | Samsung

MTV Networks knows the importance of mobile video music content and services. MTV Networks already has under its belt access to 1.3 billion viewers on 120 channels in countries all over the world.

MTV, a division of Viacom who also owns the Nickelodeon children's network, Comedy Central, and dozens of other music and nonmusical channels, is trying to build viewers through the hottest new medium: mobile phone screens, also dubbed by some executives in the industry as "the 3rd screen".

MTV Networks has already signed a deal with Vodafone for access to over 700 million mobile phone subscribers, and now will just have to convince all those folks to pay for shows on a screen the size of a credit card. An existing alliance with Virgin Mobile is proving to be valuable experience in distributing and accessing Virgin Mobile content for MTV consumers.

With nine out of 10 mobile phone users located outside the U.S., Mobile TV content for global consumption is a big priority for MTV Networks. The key according to recent studies on mobile TV usage, is snack-size mobile content in chunks that a short attention span can chew.

The screen size and resolution means that there is a whole different way of creating video content, a whole way of directing it and producing it. That's why eventually most of the content will be originally produced for the cell phone.

New technologies that enable the rollout of next generation mobile TV networks are already in the works by the likes of Samsung with the SGH-P900 and Nokia's N92, with mobile carriers such as Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Cingular, and & the mobile DVH-B consortium that was recently formed to develop a standard for wireless mobile TV.

Posted by mobilemodo at 10:28 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Content | News

IPWireless revealed plans announced today that Sprint Nextel will be the 1st operator globally to start testing the next generation of IPWireless' mobile broadband technology known as LTE (Long Term Evolution). The official launch of the testing by Sprint will begin in March, 2006.
Recently here at mobilemodo we told you about the Sprint's plans in 2008 for Mobile TV along with a $10M investment that was made to assist IPWireless in developing next generation Mobile TV broadband capabilities.

The core LTE technology delivers peak speeds up to 29Mbps and will be tested as part of the ongoing UMTS TD-CDMA trials in Washington, D.C. metro. In essence, the next generation of UMTS TD-CDMA technology will allow a progression to the LTE standard from CDMA and TD-CDMA. The performance characteristics being designed include very high data rates that support very high speed mobility on an IP centric network.

"Having a common platform with Europe and Asia in the 2.5GHz band would bring a number of benefits," said Barry West, chief technology officer at Sprint Nextel. "The potential of IPWireless' solution to deliver a viable path to the Long Term Evolution of UMTS is relevant to our analysis of candidate technologies."

Sprint's goal of the IPWireless technology trials will be to test all of the subscriber services, including fast Internet broadband access for PDAs, laptops, handheld devices along with a wide spectrum of Wireless Interactive Multimedia Services like mobile video streaming, video conferencing, document collaboration and online gaming. The test will allow Sprint to fully test the gamut of products for both consumer and business users in correlation with mobile multimedia content partners.

Posted by mobilemodo at 08:37 AM | Permalink Posted to 3G | Mobile Content | News | Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel plans to unveil some Mobile TV goodness by rolling out a special network to handle mass scale media transmissions in 2008. Being the first major wireless phone carrier to deliver mobile TV over a cellular network, Sprint Nextel, says that they plan to launch a high-powered network for wireless mobile media services like TV and music over cell phones in 2008.

Sprint Nextel claims that although other competitors such as Verizon Wireless will make a noble attempt, Sprint's technology will be so powerful that it will have TV services that will be “two years in advance of the other U.S. carriers.”

While Sprint Nextel already has mobile TV over its third generation (3G) cellular network with MobiTV, demand will soon be outstripped by supply. Showing great interest in the development of next generation solutions, Sprint Nextel recently made a strategic investment with IPWireless to work on Mobile TV that is used on unpaired 3G spectrum.

All of these maneuvers will precipitate the move to what is being dubbed as "4G". Depending on the timing of the new rollout strategy for 4G, Sprint may also have to look into Qualcomm’s MediaFLO or Modeo’s DVB-H networks.

Posted by mobilemodo at 08:21 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (1) Posted to Mobile Content | News | Sprint Nextel

DiBcom disclosed to RedHerring in an interview that Cingular Wireless will test its DVB-H (Mobile TV) based technology.

DVB-H is in a growing field of competing Mobile TV technologies that has the distinct advantage of being backed by mobile technology giants Intel, Nokia and Motorola. Nokia revealed that they will launch the N92 as the first DVB-H compatible handset.

Cingular has not openly commented on the test trials, but DiBcom commented:

Cingular just finished building the lab to test the chips in PDAs. The carrier will then test the chips in laptops and then in cell phones, said [DiBcom] spokesperson Agnes Hu, in an email. There are already several mobile TV standards in the works and it looks like each national US carrier may choose its own. Verizon Wireless is going ahead with MediaFLO and Sprint Nextel looks to be going towards TDtv. Current implementations simply stream the video data to each user over existing data networks and are not true broadcast mobile TV services.

Modeo is working on building the first DVB-H network in the U.S. and has not yet announced any mobile carrier partnership arrangements.

Posted by mobilemodo at 01:25 PM | Permalink Posted to Cingular | Mobile Content | Motorola | Nokia

Samsung will soon be unveiling the new DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) capable SGH-P900 cell phone that will be announced during next week's 3GSM World Congress for mobile phones.

It will be a clamshell flip phone that has a pop-out rotating TV viewing screen with enhanced program guide and recording features. The SGH-P900 will come standard with 100MB of internal memory and a microSD memory card.

The final handset specs, purchase availability and price will be announced during 2Q of 2006.

Posted by mobilemodo at 07:39 AM | Permalink Posted to 3GSM | Mobile Content | News | Samsung

During the Superbowl today, Mobile ESPN was officially launched with the ad slogan "Welcome to sports heaven".

Mobile ESPN will feature the flagship $199 Sanyo MVP cell phone to its first wireless subscribers who can now signup for service at Best Buy or by calling 1-800-GET-ESPN.

Mobile ESPN is a new Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that uses the upgraded Sprint Nextel Power Vision EvDO network and coverage will commensurate with the ongoing rollout of EvDO to major metropolitan areas in the U.S. during 2006-2007.

Posted by mobilemodo at 08:40 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (3) Posted to MVNO | Mobile Content | News | Sprint Nextel

Boost Mobile has annonced they will now offer Call Tones; Boost Mobile is the first nationwide cellular pre-pay wireless service to offer Ringback Tones. The Boost Call Tones service is enabled by Alcatel telecom solutions.

The new mobile service now available nationwide has been dubbed "Boost Call Tones," and it will now replace the standard ringing sound that is heard when a call is connected and the caller is waiting for the Boost Mobile customer to answer.

Boost Call Tones will also enable Boost customers to customize the sounds callers hear before a call is answered with unique content to fit their mood including music, jokes or original sound effects that entertain waiting callers.

Boost Call Tones are available on all Boost Mobile phones and you can register directly from your Boost Mobile phone by going to www.boostmobile.com.

Posted by mobilemodo at 01:29 PM | Permalink Posted to MVNO | Mobile Content | News

Amp'd Mobile and Novarra have announced that Novarra's Internet and Web search solution by the name of nWeb, is integrated into all handsets currently offered by Amp'd Mobile.

Subscribers to Amp'd (pronounced amped) Mobile will have unrestricted access to all Internet and mobile content available. Amp'd Mobile users will automatically get full Web content from the original Amp'd Internet site.

Novarra software work much like Opera Software's Opera Mini Java mobile browser by transforming and reducing Web pages on their own servers before they are transferred over the mobile phone network to the user's cell phone.

Novarra's Internet optimization solution is launched by Amp'd Mobile on Kyocera and Motorola handsets. Much like Virgin Mobile which is an MVNO that uses Sprint Nextel's CDMA EvDO network, Amp'd Mobile is an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) that runs on Verizon's next generation EVDO network.

Senior vice president of Amp'd Mobile stated: "We selected the leader in Internet transformation for their powerful platform that simplified creating and expanding our Internet offering. Novarra is integrated with Amp'd Live to create our innovative experience where a user seamlessly listens to a song, reads about the artist, searches and buys content."

Posted by mobilemodo at 02:04 PM | Permalink Posted to Amp'd Mobile | MVNO | Mobile Applications | Mobile Content | News

InfoSpace Mobile, one of the leaders in mobile media content, and fuse, a viewer influenced music television network, announced from NATPE in Las Vegas a substantial mobile entertainment initiative whereby InfoSpace will provide fuse with mobile content including ring tones, graphics and mobile games.

This content will be available to consumers on the fuse mobile storefront in the second quarter of 2006. Mobile cell phone users in the U.S on all major carriers including Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Cingular, and T-Mobile will be able to access this content via mobile internet browsers via WAP, Opera Mobile, or Opera Mini browsers.

"fuse is a recognized and leading channel for tech-savvy music enthusiasts, so we're excited to work with them for a simple, on-the-go solution for easy access to mobile entertainment." - VP of Infospace mobile content

Under the new business arrangement, fuse viewers will be able to order wireless mobile content via a single shortcode (fuseM) promoted on select fuse TV programs as well as one code ordering from the fuse mobile storefront. The Web-based mobile storefront will be developed and managed by InfoSpace. InfoSpace will provide fuse with music tones from major record labels and hundreds of independent labels in addition to thousands of graphics and InfoSpace's library of mobile phone games.

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:38 AM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | Mobile Content | Mobile TV | News

The recently launched VCAST Music services being offered by Verizon Wireless will give customers many options for downloading, accessing, and listening to music from 3G EvDO mobile phones.

VCAST application service features:
Subscription to service obtained at Verizon Wireless or Circuit City stores
$15 Service per month
Download to PC 99 cents per song
Download on mobile $1.99 per song
Synchroniztion of music via USB

Music will be DRM copyright protectedThe service will be available over Verizon's cellular network to 150 million U.S. residents, according to the company. The V Cast service was launched last year with video and games offerings.

At launch, you'll be able to use the V Cast Music service with several phones, including LG Electronics' VX8100 and Samsung's SCH-a950.

Posted by mobilemodo at 04:30 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | Mobile Content | Mobile Music | Verizon