Napster on Wednesday said that Napster to Go, its fledgling portable music service, is now available to AT&T Wireless subscribers who use the Audiovox SMT5600 smart phone.
The service lets customers download an unlimited number of songs for $14.95 monthly. In September, Napster, a unit of Roxio, released a beta version of Napster to Go, making the service available via a plug-in to Windows Media Player 10. The version of the service announced Wednesday is apparently also a prerelease version; the company says the service will "officially debut" with the release of Napster 3.0, probably later this year. At that time, the service will be available to a wider audience. Napster 3.0 will be compatible with a range of MP3 players.
"Napster was the first service to make the promise of the portable subscription model a reality, and today, we are taking that innovation to the wireless marketplace," Napster Chairman and CEO Chris Gorog said in a statement. The SMT5600 smart phone, which supports Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, is capable of holding up to six songs. (It has a flash memory capacity of 28.5 MB.) With an additional memory chip of 128MB or 256MB, the handset's capacity can be further enhanced to allow for two or four hours of songs, respectively.
News source: C|Net News.com
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