Saturday, May 12, 2007

Bye Bye Walled Garden


Whatever else it may do, the iPhone probably has killed any hopes mobile carriers might have harbored that they could create and control musice downloading walled gardens. Alltel, for example, is launching Jump Music , free of digital rights management and supporting side loading, so users can upload music they already own into their handsets.

Jump Music allows transfer of existing owned music to phones including the LG AX8600, MOTOKRZR K1m, MOTORAZR V3m, The Wafer by Samsung and the aforementioned u520. We also note that Sprint Nextel has realized the market price for a song is 99 cents, not $2.99.

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