Google G1 to get DRM-free music from Amazon’s Music Store
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Amazon’s MP3 is preloaded as an application in T-Mobile’s G1, the first phone designed on Google’s Android platform. G1 users will be able to purchase DRM-free MP3’s from the store to listen on their phone.
The Amazon partnership is crucial for Google’s G1 to compete with the iPhone, which integrates very well with Apple’s iTunes store for music and video purchase. It’s unclear what Google’s plans are for competing with the iPhone on the video front. With nothing in it’s product portfolio to compete with an iTunes like application, it will be hard for G1 users to download videos for playback. Users can watch YouTube videos on the G1. However, YouTube playback is available on the iPhone as well.
The Amazon MP3 application on the G1 is a phone-optimized version of the Amazon MP3 store for buying and playing music. Amazon’s MP3 also allows users to purchase DRM-free music available through other services such as Pandora MySpace Music. With a mobile port of the Amazon MP3 store now available, we can expect Amazon to strike similar partnership’s with other mobile phone makers.
The music store offers more than 6 million songs. Every song and album is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software, allowing buyers to play their music on popular personal digital music-capable device: PCs, Macs(R), iPods(R), iPhones(R), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM). One can also burn songs to CDs for personal use.
Amazon MP3’s has over 1 million songs available at 89 cents. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99, with more than 80 percent of Amazon MP3’s album catalog priced at $8.99 or less.
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