At Cellphone Show, the Talk Is About Music Sept 30, 2005
The hot topic among mobile phone executives gathered in San Francisco for a cellphone trade show is the push to transform handsets into portable music players, reports The New York Times. "Clint Wheelock, an analyst for NPD Group, a market research firm, said the wireless carriers were hoping to follow the huge success of the Apple iPod music player. Evolving technology has made it less expensive to build music capability into a phone than in the past. Some analysts say the cost of adding music-organizing software and more memory will be as little as $30 a phone. Equally important to the music phone's success is having millions of consumers accustomed to downloading and listening to digital music. Indeed, some phone companies believe a music phone can become a strong competitor to a stand-alone music player like the iPod. Still, there are obstacles. Consumers have not always embraced new features, particularly when they absorb battery life and could detract from the phone's main use: making calls. The handset makers also are not likely to add so much memory that the phones will be able to hold the vast music libraries that iPods can hold."
Search n Find Ringtones Sept 22, 2005
Search n Find Ringtones is a search engine for mobile content, combining the databases of 4 major mobile content providers (MediaPlazza, Ringtonio.nl, MobileMoney, Multivea Mobile).
RingBits, a Ringtone search engine This is exactly what the mobile music world needed, a ringtone search engine, powered by Google.
It's name is Ringbits.com. Fabulous!
100,000 mobile content items available!
On June 16, we announced that Fonetones.6te.net exceeded 80,000 available content items. Today, we are proud to inform you that our content catalog now contains in excess of 100,000 items!
The Fonetones.6te.net content catalog is one of the largest mobile catalog available on the Net: more than 40,000 ring tones (Hi-Fi, Polyphonic, sound effects...), more than 40,000 logos (color and animated color), not to mention java games and videos.
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Britney Spears Promotes New Fragrance With Free Ringtones
September 16, 2005
Britney Spears, - who just had a baby boy - has launched a new fragrance called Fantasy, reports Mocoblog.
www.fantasybritneyspears.com went live yesterday. "Fans will be able to download cell phone ringtones with messages from Britney, wallpaper for their phones and online games.
"The tones are all real tones (or voice tones) which have Britney saying things like, “Hey hottie, your phone is ringing” and “This is Britney, in my fantasy you pick up the phone.”
Watch the iTune phone commercials September 17, 2005
Watch the iTune phone commercials
Boris Novak on his blog The Challenge has posted videos of the MotoRrokr's TV commercials.
According to Novak, "the idea behind this is to appeal to majority of public one does not wish to scare them of by putting on the market with which public could not identify, so for example for advertising of mainstream fashion one uses average girls and guys, etc."