Alltel chooses mSpot for over the air music synching

by: admin Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Rating: mspot music

mSpot who?
mSpot is a mobile music and radio provider. It offers an over the air mobile music to PC synching service.

Alltel

US operator Alltel offers a Celltop DRM-free service. mSpot services will power this new Celltop service.

Celltop users visit the Axcess Shop on the Alltel phone to subscribe. mSpot Remix then connects to the users PC via Alltel’s network enabling access to stored playlists. When a customer hits “play” from the mSpot Remix mobile player, Remix immediately starts playing the song while downloading the entire track in the background. Remix then saves the songs to the phone’s memory card, so the customer has access to their songs in the future — even when not connected to the network.

From the press release
“We are extremely excited to work with Alltel Wireless and bring their customers an easy way to use their phones as music players,” said Daren Tsui, co-founder and CEO of mSpot. “With no cables and an incredibly easy-to-use wireless interface, Alltel’s Music powered by Celltop is the first service to leverage the power of their network to make music truly mobile.”

What we think?
The good – it’s a funky new music service

The bad – its USD 3.99 per month or USD 9.99 for three months

The ugly its only available on one device the MOTOROKR Z6m – (no I don’t know it either) and (is ROKR still going?)