All Entries in the "Mobile" Category

Special Offer: Exclusive For Music Void Readers

Music Void has done a deal with music ‘place-shifting’ company Didiom that will let our readers experience the very latest in mobile music technology at no cost.
Didiom allows music fans to listen to all of their PC based music, audio books and podcasts ‘over the air’ straight to their Blackberry or Windows Mobile handset. Think [...]

Feb, 08 2010 0 Comments Full Story

Vodafone Claims 450,000 Music Subscribers

No single kind of digital service is going to save the music business on its own, but every little helps. Doing its bit, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) came to the Midem music-biz event having totted up the number of paying customers it has for unlimited subscription music – the model that offers perhaps the most likely [...]

Jan, 27 2010 4 Comments Full Story

Spotify-Google Links Just ‘Speculation’

It’s extraordinary how quickly rumour can appear to become fact these days. Case in point: TechCrunch mashing up the two hot trends of Spotify and Nexus One in to a story that Google’s new Android phone will include the music app pre-bundled.
The launch came and went with no Spotify announcement, though CNET already rated the [...]

Jan, 05 2010 3 Comments Full Story

Motorola’s Milestone (The U.K.‘s Droid) Flies Off The Virtual Shelves

Some very positive news for Motorola (NYSE: MOT) as we head into the weekend … Online retailer eXpansys says that the Milestone—the U.K.-version of the Droid—sold out in just three hours. eXpansys is the exclusive seller of the handset; the company said it had received well over 1,000 pre-orders for the Milestone a week before [...]

Dec, 13 2009 1 Comments Full Story

Will The iPhone Finally Be Unleashed?

I know that this is a little off my usual path, but I made a discovery that I felt I had to share.
Yesterday it was reported that UK mobile operator O2 plans to allow out-of-contract users to unlock their iPhones for use on other networks. Of course this depends on other carriers picking up the [...]

Nov, 10 2009 2 Comments Full Story

Mobile Music At The Crossroads

This past Monday, I moderated a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, California. The topic: Establishing the personalized mobile music experience. While the panelists didn’t reach any earth-shaking conclusions, it became clear that mobile is definitely the final link in the evolution of music’s transition from a product-based business model to service-based [...]

Oct, 21 2009 4 Comments Full Story

Apple’s Big Challenge is not Spotify but China

As Spotify goes live on Android and the iPhone for its limited number of premium subscribers in Europe, I hear the glee of the geeks Stateside and here. Among other nifty usability features, Spotify can play your entire catalogue offline through playlist caches, so you can listen to the largest music collection on the web [...]

Sep, 23 2009 0 Comments Full Story

Mobile App Stores – The Wider Issue

With the recent rejection by Apple of the Google Voice application for the Apple app store and the FCC probe brought on by the scandal, TMV thought it apt (pun intended) to drill down on the issues at hand.
Firstly AT&T, Apple’s iPhone partner in the US, has denied any involvement in the negative decision in [...]

Aug, 10 2009 1 Comments Full Story

First Ever Mobile Internet Radio Website?

It was interesting to receive an email announcing the launch of a claimed first in terms of a mobile internet streaming radio station over the weekend. The announcement concerns When I’m Mobileteaming up with internet radio station Radio Paradise, albeit TMV do question the statement that it is a world first, what about the Pandora [...]

Aug, 04 2009 3 Comments Full Story

iPhone 3G S vs. Palm Pre

Due to the hype surrounding the launch of Palm’s Pre Model over the weekend and then three days later the launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G S model TMV thought it apt to compare the specs of each phone. Unlike our Blackberry Storm vs IPhone 3G post, obviously TMV have not had the benefit of testing [...]

Jun, 10 2009 21 Comments Full Story