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Mobile music service Spotify has graced Android, iPhone, and Symbian devices abroad, but has yet to pierce the thick shell of licensing surrounding North America. All that may change come January 5, when Google is rumoured to announce their upcoming Nexus One Android smartphone. Spotify is an aggressive contender in the mobile music scene, offering on-demand streaming of music from your playlist, local caching via over-the-air downloads for offline access, Word has it that Google and Spotify struck a deal wherein Google would pay out $3 – $4 per user per month to cover licensing and offer the service for free to end users – a hefty investment to say the least, but a price Google needs to pay if they want to butt heads with iTunes. The deal hasn’t necessarily been sealed, but we’re hoping it has.
[via TechCrunch, pic (shopped)]
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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.
