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Articles tagged with: Mobile Music and Memory
Handset Manufacturers Aiming to Design Their Way out of Recession
The global recession may have drastically slowed many forms of economic activity, but not the efforts of mobile device manufacturers to drive growth by design innovation. more
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Sony Ericsson Shows Off New Walkman Phone
Sony Ericsson has shown off another Walkman branded mobile phone, and a Wireless Home Audio System. The W705 features the same sound quality as the W980 Walkman phone which was rated "best audio experience" in a trial conducted in Germany by TESTfactory. The W705 includes standard Walkman features such as the music recognition application TrackID, SensMe, for matching your mood to the music and Shake control to change tracks with the flick of your hand. more
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Three New Mobile Phones from Sony Ericsson
To coincide with the Walkman phone's third birthday, Sony Ericsson has unveiled three brand new mobile phones: the W902, W595 and W302, and seven new music accessories. more
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Music Phones Surpass ½ Billion Units Shipped in 2007
MultiMedia Intelligence reports the worldwide unit shipments of music phones exceeded ½ billion units in 2007, outnumbering shipments of personal media players like the iPod by almost 300 million units. In 2011, over half of all mobile phones can be considered music phones with 941 million units shipped. MultiMedia Intelligence defines a music phone as a phone with two features: (1) Music codec functionality: MP3, AAC, etc. and (2) memory slot which allows for a full featured music experience by allowing the user to carry a personal music library. This is really only possible with expandable memory. more
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20% of Subscribers Are Listening to Music on Their Mobile Phones
The rise in music-phones has spurred adoption of mobile music consumption across the United States and Western Europe, reports M:Metrics. The firm reports that sideloading accounts for 83 percent of mobile music usage across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among other methods, sharing music outpaces full-track mobile downloading in the majority of these markets. more
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Motorola Shows off 9 New Phones
Motorola has announced the launch of nine new handsets, including seven new "everyday phones" as well as a new version of its RAZR handset and a new music phone. All the new phones will be available during fourth quarter of 2007. more
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Vodafone UK Offering Unlimited Music Downloads
Vodafone UK has announced that its customers will have unlimited access to over a million tracks from all the major record labels, as well as leading independents, on a range of new handsets for Christmas. Through an exclusive agreement with Omnifone, the UK based mobile music company, Vodafone will roll out their MusicStation, giving customers the ability to download tracks from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Music and Warner Music Group direct to their handsets, even while on the move. Customers will be able to sign up for unlimited downloads from MusicStation for £1.99 (US$4) per week. The MusicStation service will be accessed through Vodafone live! on a wide range of music handsets. more
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Worldwide Mobile Gaming Revenue to Grow 50 Percent in 2007
As consumer awareness grows and publishers release more content, worldwide mobile gaming end-user revenue will grow from US$2.9 billion in 2006 to US$9.6 billion in 2011, according to Gartner. Worldwide mobile gaming revenue is on pace to total US$4.3 billion in 2007, a 49.9 percent increase from 2006. more
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