Sony pioneers personal radio to mobile phones

Consumers can tailor the music stream by pressing a button on their phone to indicate they like or dislike a song, according to USA Today.

Sony's service, for which it has no name yet, will work on advanced multimedia handsets running on the Symbian software system, available on phones from Nokia, Siemens AG, Sony Ericsson, Sendo and others.

The music will be sent over the GPRS data-capable network of a mobile operator at a speed of 16 kilobits per second. It is not close to compact disc quality, but Sony reckons it is good enough to start with, while waiting for the faster 3G networks.

Sony also announced the European opening in June of its Connect music store on the Internet, where consumer can buy songs from 0.99 euros apiece and download them on their computer before exporting them to Sony minisdisc players and walkmans".

emily | 4:35 PM | Real Music |
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