May 12, 2004
Karaoke on your phone
adMBlog reports on Vodafone Japan's karaoke phone with embeded sing-a-long functionality.
"You download backing tracks to the phone from the web, plug the handset into your TV, and sing into the mouthpiece. Hey presto, voice plus music issue forth from the TV speakers. Fun at parties! Just don't invite us."
Of course, the phone has all the other standard features: mega pixel camera, TFT display etc..
Other mobile Karaoke applications and services from around the world:
-- Celcom introduces 'Mobile Karaoke' - Celcom Malaysia, the country's largest mobile phone operator, has introduced a new entertainment service dubbed the Mobile Karaoke for its subscribers with GPRS-enabled handsets
-- SingTel's new Mobile Karaoke service offers the operator's post-paid mobile subscribers full-length songs for download. These come with synchronized lyrics to prompt users singing along". cf The latest in mobile content--karaoke.
-- Nokia and Taito will reportedly collaborate in providing karaoke functions to cell phones. cf Nokia, Taito Teaming Up in Mobile Phone Karaoke.
-- Irish technology company Alatto has developed a new java application called air.karaoke, that will let users download songs and lyrics, to create mobile karaoke machines. cf previous post in Ringtonia
-- Japanese ringtone providers allow subscribers to 'practice' songs. This service has been widened to include images, and users can send up to four photos which can be 'watched' while the audio clip is playing. cf Karaoke ringtones.
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