October 29, 2005
First over-the-air music download store in the US
Cellular News reports that Sprint Nextel is poised for a full-scale launch of its high-speed wireless network, a service that will include the first over-the-air music download store in the US.
"The newly merged cell phone company was planning a series of major announcements for Monday morning.
In advance of the announcement, Sprint Nextel distributed review units of a new cell phone equipped with EV-DO, the technology with which the company's network is being upgraded to offer speedier Internet connections and other data services".
According to EVDO Blog, Sprint will be calling the EVDO phones, Power Vision Phones. The first 2 Power Vision phones rumored to be available are the Samsung MM-A940 and the Sanyo MM-9000. Sprint is expected to announce a huge EVDO rollout along with the announcements of these Power Vision phones.
The Samsung handset also featured a menu icon for music that leads to a service named "Sprint Music Store" offering downloads from a wide array of genres for $2.50 a song. The purchase entitles a user to download a copy of the same song to a computer as well.
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