Mobile usage has skyrocketed over the past tense year, and is on the verge of surpassing the PC as the most popular way to listen to Rhapsody, with the mobile and PC platforms each accounting for 38 percent of plays. In addition, mobile users are enjoying their Rhapsody subscriptions even more by playing 30 percent more tracks on norm, than someone who listens to Rhapsody only from their PC.

While most on-demand music services put approach to their mobile offering behind a pay wall, Rhapsody’s new free trial provides full access to its mobile platform so users can immerse themselves in the full Rhapsody music experience wherever they are–with or without an Internet connection.

“Taking mobile access out of the on-demand music experience is like taking Mick Jagger out of the Rolling Stones,” said Jon Irwin, prexy, Rhapsody. “Consumers love listening to Rhapsody on their smartphones, without advertising and gimmicks to keep their free experience going. We’ve found that the best way to demonstrate the value of an on-demand music overhaul is to actually provide it in an on-demand fashion; on the gimmick you carry with you everywhere.”

During the trial period, Facebook users can listen to Rhapsody’s library of 13 million songs on more than 70 consumer electronic devices, including all smartphone platforms—no credit card or sign-up required. In addition, they can sample from Rhapsody’s programmed and artist radio, browse original editorial content and try out Rhapsody’s new sociable music features – all for free and without advertising.

“The only free music we believe in is music that is free people of restrictions,” said Irwin. “We rich person found that a trial is the optimal way to convert paying subscribers, and I expect that Facebook Music will amplify the effectiveness of this proven marketing tactic.”

We have heard about the upcoming Android OS called Honeycomb is coming out soon. Some of us wealthy person managed to get their custody on the Honeycomb music player and leaked them. Now the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) music player available for download.

The new medicine histrion divided into Artists, Albums, and Songs. It has 3D photograph gallery that shows the album. If you would like to download the medicine histrion mouse click the chase link. Unfortunately, it North Korean won’t installed in Android 2.3.

[via SlashGear]

Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones lets users discover songs, artists and albums, then lets them steal and download tracks from Amazon with just a few clicks. The app also offers delivery options to case all data plans, so tracks can be downloaded over Wi-Fi® or cellular networks. Users are able to easily share their latest musical finds with their friends by sending comments and golf course for particular tracks through BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger), email, SMS, Twitter and Facebook®.

“Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones makes it fun and easy to get new music and we’re thrilled to work with Amazon to bring this service to users,” said Alistair Mitchell, Vice President, BBM Platform and Integrated Services. “Users can directly access Amazon MP3’s massive catalogue to easily uncovering, preview and buy music through the BlackBerry media histrion, and then part their thoughts with their social circuit, giving them a uniquely BlackBerry experience that combines communications with multimedia system.”

Other key features of Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones include:

* Music Discoverability – Browse the Amazon catalogue by what’s new, top songs, big top albums and genres; choose from over a one thousand thousand albums, and 14 million songs – all competitively priced and DRM free people * New Music Deals Everyday – Check backrest daily for a free song of the solar day and daily album deals * Bookmarks – Easily bookmarker songs or albums for preview or to download at a later metre * Gift Cards – Redeem promotional or Amazon gift circuit card codes directly from the app * Preview – Listen to a 30-second sampling before buying * Parental Control – Adjust the explicit content controller settings

Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones is also integrated with the universal joint search feature on handsets running the new BlackBerry® 6 operating organisation. Users can simply start typing the claim or artist from the home screen of their BlackBerry smartphone and Amazon MP3 will appear as a hunting option.

Availability Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones is now available in beta for BlackBerry smartphone users in the U.S. on BlackBerry App World™ in the Test Center. For more information please visit www.blackberry bush.com/amazonmp3.

The SRS 5.1 Mobile River solvent featured on the upcoming Galaxy Tab originally debuted in Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphones. Embedded within the music and video recording players of the Android™-powered Captivate™, Epic™, Fascinate™ and Vibrant™ smartphones, SRS 5.1 Mobile River transforms each model into a multimedia system powerhouse.

“As a marketplace drawing card and an pioneer, Samsung has established a reputation in the industry for great performance by packing their products with bounty features and state-of-the-art components,” said Allen H. Gharapetian, Vice President of Marketing for SRS Labs. “Having SRS 5.1 Mobile embedded within Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S phones not only completes the multimedia system experience provided by these devices, but brings greater liveliness, realism and vocal clearness to these products.”

Features of SRS 5.1 Mobile:

* Creates an accurate 5.1 virtual surround sound experience over any stereo system headphones

* Utilizes SRS Circle Surround® decoder to generate the highest quality surround auditory sensation – placing left field, right, centre, environment left field and environment right speakers accurately around the listener’s drumhead

* SRS Dialog Clarity™ boosts the absolute frequency cooking stove of the somebody part in a means that lifts the dialogue above the audio effects, so you tin clearly hear every news that’s being spoken

* Improves overall bass voice response of the headphones

* SRS WOW HD™ improves the dynamic audio frequency execution of both compressed and uncompressed audio, by expanding the size of it of the audio effigy

“Time and again, SRS has proven to Samsung that SRS auditory sensation and voice solutions are designed to deliver superior performance and allow for effortless integrating within our product lines,” said Jacques Louis David (HM) Noh, Vice President of the United States of R & D preparation and partnership direction from Samsung Mobile River Communications. “Having SRS 5.1 Mobile embedded within Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S phones presents our demanding users with a far more realistic, theater-like amusement experience, on devices that burst easily in their pockets.”

To commemorate SRS’ inclusion within Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S phones, SRS Labs launched a Facebook-scoop sweepstakes today to spring away 2 SRS 5.1 Mobile™ enabled Galaxy S smartphones and a Galaxy Tab as a fillip trophy. The sweepstake will tally from November 3, 2010 – December 1, 2010. To enter for your chance to win, please visit www.facebook.com/SRSLabs. Additionally, SRS is concurrently run a sweepstake commemorating SRS’ identification as single of America’s Greatest Brands.
]]> http://your-mobile-phone.net/new_samsung_galaxy_tab_packs_srs_5_1_mobile_for_larger_than_life_sound.html/feed 4 http://your-mobile-phone.net/motorola_ventures_leads_a_new_round_of_investiture_in_social_music_actor_8211_tunewiki.html http://your-mobile-phone.net/motorola_ventures_leads_a_new_round_of_investiture_in_social_music_actor_8211_tunewiki.html#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:54:00 +0000 admin http://your-mobile-phone.net/?p=10977 Motorola (NYSE: MOT test) Ventures, the troupe’s VC branch, is leading a new round of investiture in TuneWiki, the company behind the popular sociable media music player. In addition, four other VCs participated in the daily round, including Intellect Das Kapital Ventures (TeliaSonera’s VC troupe), HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and Benchmark Israel.

TuneWiki volition manipulation the new money to expand and enhance its product offerings. The idea is to yield further reward of chopine capabilities and new features found in latest smartphones, including stronger CPUs, larger displays and high-resolution screens. In addition, the company volition continue to focusing on the manipulation of strain lyrics “in new and exciting shipway” that connect medicine fans around the worldly concern with new products, including an upcoming mobile biz.

Commenting on the investment in TuneWiki, Motorola Ventures’ Reese Schroeder said: “Music is rapidly emerging as a key lineament for smartphones, and TuneWiki is changing the experience of hearing to music from a hermit experience to a sociable one. We believe that TuneWiki has developed an innovative interactive sociable media player that tin dramatically change the way people volition listen to and interact with music.”

In other words, we could expect to see TuneWiki being integrated in the future tense versions of MOTOBLUR UI, or at least me thinks/hopes so.

Well here’s a more unusual one for you …

Indaba Music (which offers ‘offers the leading suite of online tools enabling artists all over the world to create music together online’) has emailed me to let me know about the ‘Phone Wars’ that rich person been going on amongst its employees – specifically those that own the iPhone, versus those that own the Moto Droid!

For days, the iPhone has been the gimmick of choice for nearly one-half of the Indaba Music employees. Meanwhile, unwilling to switch mobile carriers to get an iPhone, the other one-half of the Indaba Music team waited for a comparable phone to be available through their overhaul. On November 6th, Motorola (NYSE: MOT test) Droid arrived and was immediately procured by many others of the Indaba Music team. The staff gathered, comparison and contrasting it to the iPhone. Sides were taken. To settee the ongoing (and seemed like never-ending) interoffice smack talking, they put it to their biotic community of 325,000. To participate members were to create an original ringtone exploitation (or covering) at least 1 audio sample distribution from their elect phone’s audio frequency files.  The winning earphone will be the phone whose ringtones get the most votes.

And here ar a few of the results of those wars…

Droid Tones

Ringtone 1 Ringtone 2 Ringtone 3

iPhone Tones

Ringtone 1 Ringtone 2 Ringtone 3

Obviously the point of all this is to promo the troupe itself – but, in some ways, it is a cool way of doing it, and something that will temper the interest of those that like to customise their phones.

Fascinatingly, quite a few Professionals in the medicine manufacture manipulation Indaba, check this lot out: The Roots, Yo-Yo Ma, Mariah Carey, Crystal Method, Gospel According to John Legend, Weezer, Alkaline Trio!

If it is something that interests you, you can find out more here.

To further step-up usability and maximize base hit, the F4 also offers automatic part dialing and redial functionality when supported by the user’s mobile phone. Stereo medicine cyclosis is another keystone lineament of the F4 allowing riders to listen to music from their A2DP Bluetooth headphone and music players.

The F4 will pair with up to eight Bluetooth devices and multipoint technology allows the F4 to connect to two phones at once. Additionally, bikers can listen to twist-by-turn directions from “motorcycle-friendly” Bluetooth Global Positioning System devices and enjoy up to 10 hours talk-meter and up to 700 hours of standby time.

Spotify for Android has just hit variant 0.3.24 and with it comes:

URI support – Open/Share Spotify URI’s to or from SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter apps, etc. An udated player with covering fire art swipe documentation (similar to the iPhone version). Android 2.0/Eclair documentation – Spotify tin now run on the Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) Droid earphone, which has just started shipping in European Economic Community. Home Screen appliance – Control Spotify from the dwelling house blind, pictured above.

To download it simply go to m.spotify.com in your mobile web browser and download the diligence. Note that the diligence is also available for the iPhone and Symbian devices.

[Hat tip to @munkimatt for the photograph above]

The Samsung Omnia HD earns its name thanks to the fact that it features HD video recording enabling you to gaining control precious moments in 720p HD caliber at 24 frames per second base and enjoy HD content on an HD TV via DLNA technology. This isn’t the only rise from the original Omnia, the Omnia HD is a complete re-imagining of the i900 Omnia. The new i8910 Omnia HD features an 8.0 Megapixel photographic camera which incorporates premium digital photographic camera ingredients such as Face and Smile detection, Wide Dynamic Range and Geo-tagging. Both photographic camera and video recording transcription ar sure to look stunning on the incredible 3.7 in OLED capacitive touchscreen capable of displaying up to 16m colors putting it as a strong rival to the stream best in class, the HTC Touch HD (and the Omnia actually earns its HD title).

Ok so surely that’s the end of the new whatchamacallit, right? Wrong! The Omnia HD discards Windows Mobile (seen on the master) in favour of the new touching based Symbian series 60 user port currently seen on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the upcoming N97. Rather than being a carbon copy of the 5800 though, the Omnia HD does bring some Samsung dash to the party. TouchWiz makes an show on the homescreen giving you customisable widgets that you tin relocation around and add to with new shortcuts. The photographic camera interface is also presumption a Samsung inspection and repair for a far more user friendly experience than that found on the 5800.

To round up the ease of the features, the Omnia HD includes HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity for high speed vane browse and downloads, Global Positioning System SatNav with support for A-Global Positioning System, a proximity detector for auto screen rotary motion, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, video player with support for DivX and XviD, a 3.5mm audio frequency jack and an FM radio. The Omnia HD volition launch with two different internal computer memory capacities; 8GB and 16GB. Don River’t worry as which ever you choose, both tin be expanded by a further 16GB thanks to a microSD memory circuit board slot.

The Samsung Omnia HD was definitely one of the most exciting announcements at this years Mobile World Congress consequence and looks exercise set to return the mobile phone worldly concern by violent storm when it launches later this class. Expected to arrive in June, click here to keep updated.

I’m happy to tell you that IK Multimedia has announced its GrooveMaker range of remixing apps for the iPad. Usually I’m not so overboard with congratulations for things, but these Apps are ‘da bomb calorimeter’ for those of you into ‘casual productiveness’ – that is, playing with Apps, but having something to show for your efforts at the remainder of it!

Groovemaker for the iPhone has been insanely popular (and with goodness reason I think) – they cleverly seeded the marketplace with a free app, and since then have racked up 600K downloads across their free and paid apps. There are now 11 apps in the family, and each unity is awesome!

GrooveMaker for the new iPad offers the same smart features and streamlined work flow as the iPhone/iPod variant for devising music with loops, but also takes advantage of the new larger multi-touch surface to provide enhanced operation with an integrated, advanced controller.

Also, [there is] even more controller when working with loops, providing a new floor of creative flexibility.  Users tin now switch “snapped” grooves with a unity touching, plus control the number of loops that ar automatically combined during a random mixing. GrooveMaker iPad is the perfective summation to a DJ set, providing unlimited creative tractability in live remixing and DJ applications.

There ar 4 packs for the iPad available now:

Free (a 120-loop face pack with a mix of House and Hip-Hop)HouseHip-HopD’n’B (Drum &ere; Bass)

GrooveMaker House, Hip-Hop and D’n’B contain over 300 loops each and are only $9.99/Ђ7.99/Ј5.99 from the iTunes App Store.

Groovemaker Apps ($9.99/Ђ7.99/Ј5.99) [iTunes link]