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Holy flashback to post-Napster file-sharing. Kazaa has announced that the Palm Pre will be the first mobile phone to handle HD videos downloaded through their service. Like many early peer-to-peer file sharing clients that got all legally tenderized, Kazaa went the subscription route, asking for $19.95/month for unlimited music, movie, and ringtone downloads. Of course, this is all through sideloading, but a dedicated on-device app which could load itself up over Wi-Fi would be pretty handy. I’m left to wonder if, once the infrastructure is in place, we’ll start seeing mobile file sharing take off – guess we’ll have to wait for LTE, at very least.
[via PRWeb]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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