The Right Place to Get Your Favorite Music

If you are one of the music lovers then I am sure you have your favorite singer. So, who is your favorite singer? Is it Britney Spears? Is it Josh Groban? Well, no matter who your favorite singer is, I am sure you love collecting their albums and their CDs.

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Samsung and Bang & Olufsen launch Serenata Music Phone

Samsung has joined hands with Danish company Bang & Olufsen to introduce Serenata, which claims to be a true iPhone competitor.


Bang & Olufsen is a designer and manufacturer of stylish high-end home electronic products.
The novel looking Serenata MP3 phone includes 4GB of music storage and is designed for one-handed use, the click-wheel is used for phone dialing, writing texts and emails and accessing the music lists. All primary functions on the phone are controlled by the click-wheel.

A 2.26-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) touchscreen is placed below the click-wheel. The LCD screen displays menus and album artwork. The Serenata is compatible with GSM Networks (900,1800, and 1900 MHz bands) and HSDPA service.

You just need to press one button placed in the center of the click-wheel to instantly shift from phone mode to music mode. The other music features included in the Serenata phone are:

• HSDPA connectivity for rapid downloads
• 4GB of flash memory
• Built-in hi-fi speakers
• Bass system designed to reproduce the sound quality and functionality of your home music system
• PureMusic function, which allows users to listen to music without interruptions while calls are received by the answering device
• Ability to handle playback in compressed formats including MP3, WMA, and AAC
  Good battery life to sustain amplified music for up to 5 hours through the speaker or 13 hours through a headset

As mentioned before, the Samsung and Bang & Olufsen Serenata phone is sure to pose some great challenge to Apple’s iPhone. What’s more, both the phones will be shipped in Europe by October-end, which is around the same time that the iPhone could release there.

Bundled with the Serenata is a dock to charge the phone, giving line-out audio for speakers and a USB connection that syncs files and music with both Macs and Windows. Reportedly, Bang & Olufsen could also include an extra software to transfer music from iTunes.

No details on the pricing of the Samsung and Bang & Olufsen’s Serenata phone have been revealed yet.

Apple set to launch custom ringtone maker for iPhone music ringtones

It looks like Apple if starting to finally come through on their promise of expanding the iPhone’s feature set through updates.

Those last two updates via iTunes have been somewhat of a disappointment - they offered nothing in the way of new features. But, as Apple Insider reports, the New York Post got wind of Apple’s plans to launch their customized iPhone ringtone service.

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[Via: Into iPhone]

All-White Nokia N73 Music Edition Looks Like Apple Product

Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see any sort of technological gizmo that is wrapped in an all-white housing, I immediately think of that produce-named company based out of Cupertino. It's unclear whether this is an official offering or simply personalization done right, but here is the Nokia N73 All White Edition.

There's nothing to note in terms of features, because this cell phone is functionally identical to the all-black music edition that we've seen popping around for some time now. The key difference, of course, is that this phone is all white instead of all black. It was spotted at a retail outlet in Taiwan.

The asking price at that store was $420.

Nokia 5700 Xpress Music phone, Nokia Bluetooth BH-501 headset review!

VOICE over internet protocol telephony has helped thousands of people shave money from their fixed-line phone bills since appearing on the scene some four years ago. Now it's poised to do the same to mobiles.

The Nokia 5700 Xpress Music phone utilizes a twisting base design that lets you access the music player, camera, and regular numeric keypad just by twisting the lower portion. What’s great is that when this is done, the corresponding application will launch based upon what the phone thinks you want to do. Obviously, when you turn the base to the music keys side, it knows you want to play some tunes. The same thing goes for the camera — it knows that you want to take a flick. Running on the ever-so-popular Symbian S60 OS, any previous Nokia user will be able to pick this thing up and get going. As a true music phone at heart, the Nokia 5700 Xpress Music phone offers some of the loudest darn speakers I’ve heard on a mobile phone.

Like, really really loud. Pretty clear too. It supports WM DRM and even sports a dedicated audio chip to make sure you don’t miss a beat, literally. Another very nice aspect is that the music will fade down when receiving a call, and fade back in when the call has ended, from right where you left off. Go Nokia! In addition to the music playback, using the speakerphone function when on a voice call left us real impressed…it was incredible. Nokia is generous enough to include a pair of stereo headsets with the phone. If accessible, we recommend taking advantage of the built in 3.5mm headset jack and using a pair of your own favorite headphones incase the free ones just don’t cut it.

Call quality is just what you would expect from Nokia, which offers some of the best RF performance-driven phones out there. The actual layout of the keys and buttons on the phone needs a little getting used to, but we found it very easy to use after a short amount of time. Also, the music keys could have been a little more responsive by offering more tactile feedback, but it didn’t affect our ability to pause, play, and skip through music without a hitch. The joystick used for navigating the device wasn’t tedious, but we feel that it could have been a bit better. Packed with a two megapixel camera, you’re able to twist, turn, snap, and send pictures off really quickly. We would have loved to see Flickr integration here like with the N-series, though. We know, we know, N-series only. Overall, the camera quality is good, yet a software update might be helpful in fixing some of the inconsistencies in the various photos we took. You’ll find full A2DP Bluetooth support inside, and that brings us to the second part of the review: the Nokia Bluetooth BH-501 headset.

The unit we reviewed was white and grey, and in our opinion, a little less appealing than the black version of the same headset. Colors aside, the headset performed pretty well when given music duties. Music came in crystal clear, and even though bass reproduction wasn’t outstanding, it was passable to say the least. One great thing about the headset is that it uses the same standard Nokia chargers that most of their current phones do (i.e. the Nokia 5700).

On the contrary, we found the headset is a little uncomfortable to wear, and we looked a little weird when walking down downtown Manhattan (yes we got the "WTF" stares…). Then again, the sole purposes of a stereo Bluetooth headset are to listen to music as well as make and receive calls. There were no complaints from our test victims regarding voice quality when using the Bluetooth headset.

Actual specs for the handset:

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE with WCDMA 2100MHz band or quad-band GSM/EDGE
• 2 mega pixel camera
• Bluetooth 2.0 with DUN, A2DP HFP, HSP, FTP, OPP, SAP, AVRC, BIP, BPPversion 2.0 + EDR profiles
• Talk time: 3.5 hours
• Standby time: 288 hours
• Size: 4.26" x 1.99" x 0.68" wide
• Weight: 4.06 ounces

Actual specs for the headset:

• Talk time: 11 hours
• Standby time: Up to 150 hours
• Supports A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth profiles
• Battery: 260mAh Li-Polymer
• Size: 5.55" x 4.52" x 1.96"
• Weight: 2.39 ounces

What’s included in the box:

Nokia 5700 Xpress Music phone: phone, charger, battery, MicroSD card, stereo headset, USB data cable, user’s manual.

Nokia BluetoothBH-501 headset: headset, charger, user’s manual

We’re liking the handset and headset overall. The Nokia 5700 takes a little getting used to and we wish some of the buttons were a little more responsive, but we wouldn’t be doing a disservice recommending this phone to a music lover. Let’s give them 3 and a half BGs individually.

HowTo: Stream music to your iPhone with Orb

Oh the irony of this story; to make your iPhone be cool like all the other smartphones out there that support streaming content you need to be using Windows. A little program sits on your desktop called Orb which is basically a pretty interface for creating what I assume is a SMB share with dynamic IP address support accessible via a browser. Kevin Tofel is on a roll, first he brings us news of the Nokia N81 viral ad and now this detailed and informative howto!

[Via: jkOnTheRun]

Nokia Online Music Store Aims to Dethrone Apple iTunes

There are rumblings over at Fortune that Nokia is planning on creating a new online music service on the 29th of this month and it will be attacking the exact same market as iTunes. To be launched in London, the yet unnamed Nokia online music store will allow customers to "purchase music songs from the Nokia website and also transfer the music to the mobile phone.

"You'd assume that this would come with some sort of integrated software, much like Apple's iTunes, which brings the online store and your physical music-playing device together. Nokia doesn't produce standalone music players, so this store is catering more toward owners of say a Nokia N91, 5300, or N73 Music Edition.

Accompanying the launch of the new online service, Nokia is also said to be revealing new music phones at the same event. The most likely additions will be the Nokia N81 or Nokia N82, either of which could come with WiFi, 8GB internal memory, and HSDPA.

Sony Ericsson and Orange search for new music talent

Sony Ericsson and Orange are sponsoring a competition to find new music talent in the UK. MobileAct Unsigned will air on Channel 4 and will allow viewers to download tracks and vote for their favourite bands.

The show, which will launch in October, will appear on Channel 4's T4 and 4Music strands and will be presented by Alex Zane. The search for the brand will be led by a panel of "credible" musicians and music mentors, which has yet to be revealed.

The competition aims to find young bands that write and create their own music. There will be 50 bands in the finals, 25 chosen by the public and 25 by the expert panel. The winning band will receive a record deal with a major record label.

The sponsorship is part of Orange and Sony Ericsson's ongoing music partnership, which launched last year to promote the Walkman handsets and the mobile operator's download service, Orange Music Store.

The campaign will use content from the show across TV, online and mobile and will promote three new Sony Ericsson Walkman phones, the W660i, the W910i and the W580i. The show will be filmed using two cameras, one for TV and one for creating mobile and online content.

Sony Ericsson and Orange help in the search for New Music

Mobile phone network Orange and mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson team up to find the best in unsigned talent in the UK

Most popular mobile phones now come equipped with inbuilt mp3 players, showing that listening to your favorite music on your mobile phone is a very popular pastime. But are you fed up with the bands that are around at the moment? Would you like to listen to something exciting and new? If so Sony Ericsson and Orange could be here to help.

Sony Ericsson and Orange are joining forces with Channel 4 to unearth Britain’s freshest unsigned bands. They seem to be following in Nokia’s foot steps who have sponsored the X Factor in the past.

Sony Ericsson and Orange will be bringing their mobile music expertise to make the musical search a digital showcase, giving viewers, the acts and the music industry the chance to interact via mobile, WAP and online.

The 12 week TV series will kick off on Channel 4 with a unique mobileAct unsigned music festival and UK tour. This will showcase 50 chosen bands who will perform to raise support from fans and hopefully impress the yet to be announced panel of well known artists and industry expert judges. Throughout the series the bands will receive master classes and guidance from their idols.

If you think you have what it takes you can enter by uploading your own material to http://www.mobileact.co.uk/ before the 5th August. If you prefer to listen to music rather than create it, make sure you have your mobile phone to hand to keep up to date with all the new music!

Samsung Launches Quartet of Music Video Phones

A PLAYGROUND OF FUN WITH SAMSUNG’S QUARTET OF PHONES

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled four mobile phones set to redefine the concept of fun and entertainment on the go. Featuring Bang & Olufsen ICEPower music support, panoramic 3-megapixel cameras and DivX video capabilities, Samsung’s line-up of phones offers a range of industry-leading multimedia capabilities built into cutting edge stylish designs.

“Today’s young and trendy consumers are always looking for compact yet power-packed products which allow them to carry their entertainment with them wherever they go. We believe our new line-up offers them a gamut of high-technology multimedia from music to video in sleek form factors,” said Mr. Ng Long Shyang, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Telecommunications and IT products.


Focusing on leisure and entertainment to enable fun seekers to experience more and express themselves better, the quartet consists of the dual-faced Ultra Video F500, a portable multiplayer phone with a large 2.4” TFT screen for comfortable viewing of videos and movies, the dual-faced Ultra Music F300 which offers a dedicated music user interface for quick and easy navigation, the candy bar Mini Camera E590 designed by Jasper Morrison and featuring a 3-Megapixel camera with panorama shot feature, and the Music Phone E740, an affordable music phone with one-touch music access.

Ultra Video F500
One of the most versatile and super slim personal multimedia devices, Samsung’s Ultra Video is the first phone to be DivX Certified. Combined with a built-in audio player, the Ultra Video boasts DVD-like quality picture and sound. Complementing the Ultra Video’s cuttingedge features is an innovative design incorporating a dual face LCD screen - a phone on one side and on the reverse a large 2.4” screen for multimedia viewing. The screen boasts a 240x320 pixel panel in 262,000 colours that can display video in landscape mode, while TV output gives you the option to view videos on a larger screen. The Ultra Video also comes with a back-up battery leather case which ensures longer battery life, and its unique swivel design allows for an adjustable viewing angle or serves as a stand to be placed on a flat surface. The Ultra Video F500 will be available from early August, pricing TBD.

Ultra Music F300
The Ultra Music F300 features an innovative dual-face LCD design which is unique for optimum viewing of the extensive multimedia features, yet stylish. On one side is a complete music player with superb sound quality and a large, clear touch-screen which makes scrolling through your music simple, intuitive, and fun. Flip over to the other side for a Samsung mobile phone that is rich in extra features such as a 2-megapixel camera with digital zoom, 128 MB onboard memory with microSD™ slot for expansion and BluetoothTM for wireless music streaming via a stereo headset. All this is packed into an extremely slim 9.4mm profile. The Ultra Music F300 is available at an RRP of $638 without contract.


Mini Camera E590
The Mini Camera E590, designed by leading industrial designer Jasper Morrison, features simple contours and clean lines which comprise this compact bar design. It is equipped with a powerful 3-megapixel camera with auto focus and half-shutter. In addition, the Panorama shot feature enables users to take landscape pictures, achieving wider coverage in one shot. The Mini Camera E590 also comes with the Bean bag, a unique tripod which serves as a portable accessory made from special rubber material for maximum flexibility and grip. Pricing and availability TBD.

Music Phone E740
A music model with FM radio, the Music Phone E740 features high quality music performance and a dedicated music user interface. The easy one-click music access, jog disc control and categorization by genre, album, artiste or recently played tracks means quick and easy navigation, while the multi-format music and video support lets users enjoy various file types on the phone. The locally-launched version comes with a 1GB card pre-loaded with 180 full track songs from various artistes which users can preview for free, and download and purchase the license at the click of a button if they like the song. The Music Phone E740 will be available from mid-July, pricing TBD.

iPhone May Not Rock Music Industry

Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry's ideal mobile music customer. His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it _ often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio. That's why he's not buying an iPhone.

It's not that he doesn't want one. The 24-year-old office clerk is mesmerized by the look and feel of Apple Inc.'s uber-sleek new phone that's a combination cell phone, iPod media player and Web-browsing gadget. He particularly likes its touch-screen navigation.

But Gomez says he won't buy the handset because users can't use it to buy and download music over a wireless network.

Instead, iPhone owners will have to buy music via their computers and then download it to their phones, a process called side-loading.

"I'm not the type of person that likes to wait until I get home," Gomez said. "If I hear it, I want it there and then."

The arrival of the iPhone on Friday has stoked optimism among some music company executives that it will usher in a new wave of easier-to-use mobile music devices or even entice more people into embracing the phone as music player _ and into buying more music.

"The introduction of the iPhone is an enormously positive event," said Warner Music Group Corp. CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. at a conference earlier this month in New York. "It creates more and more consumers who are looking to buy music, but it also galvanizes the mobile industry to compete."

Some analysts, however, say mobile music sales will be dampened as long as users are limited to loading music on their phones via their PCs and Macintosh computers, and blocked from buying music wirelessly.

"The whole idea of on-the-go instant gratification isn't there," said Ted Cohen, managing partner of media consulting firm Tag Strategic.

Currently, Sprint and Verizon Wireless are the only wireless network operators in the U.S. that directly sell full-track downloads for mobile phones, a process referred to as over-the-air downloads. Even so, they trail Apple's iTunes Music Store in digital music sales.

In all, about 386 million digital tracks so far this year have been purchased online or downloaded over-the-air in the U.S., according to Nielsen Mobile. The firm does not break out figures for over-the-air purchases.

About 4 percent of all mobile phone users in the U.S. and 27 percent of those with MP3-capable handsets side-loaded music onto their phones in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey by research firm The NPD Group.

‘DJ Mixer’ Application for Nseries Music Edition Devices launched by Nokia

Nokia India has just launched a new remixing application for Nokia Nseries music edition devices. Called ‘DJ Mixer’, this application allows users to remix sounds and then convert them into sound tracks.

The DJ Mixer application allows Nokia Nseries users to record songs on their mobile phones and create their own style of music by remixing them with their favorite tracks.

Nokia’s DJ Mixer application is available for N70 Music Edition, Nokia N73 Music Edition and Nokia N91 Music Edition devices.

According to phone-maker Nokia, music on the move plays a key role in enhancing a consumers’ mobile experience and the company has constantly endeavored to offer consumers a superior mobile music experience.

The Nokia DJ Mixer application is available as a free download. To download this application on a Nokia Nseries Music Edition device, users will have to SMS ‘Nseries DJ Mixer’ to 5555.

MusicStation, all-you-can-eat mobile music service launches

Unlimited music on your mobile for £1.99 a week

We brought you the news about Omniphone's revolutionary MusicStation service back in February, but now we're happy to be able to announce that it goes live today.

As we previously revealed, MusicStation is a Napster-style service for your mobile phone that will deliver unlimited music downloads to (almost) all music enabled 2.5 and 3G phones for a weekly fee of £1.99 (or 2.99 if you're in euros).

This new service will let mobile phone users legally access, download and listen to an unlimited amount of music, any time, anywhere with no extra charge for data.

Music will come from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Music and Warner Music International, as well as independents, so this is no tin-pot service.

Although not a direct competitor to Apple's iPhone, this certainly muscles in one of the iPhone's supposedly special features – a decent music offering for your mobile phone.

Omnifone has announced a target of 100 million MusicStation handsets within the next 12 months.

The service rolls out across Europe today, with handsets with the MusicStation software preloaded hitting stores but further details regarding operators, etc, to be confirmed – we'll update you as soon as we know more.