Sony Ericsson is shortly going to launch the “PlayNow Arena” portal for mobile music and gaming in Europe. The service will include 1mn tracks from Sony BMG (not a surprise!), Warner, and EMI. The Nordics (again, not a surprise) will be getting first crack at this, followed by the rest of Europe later in the year – and then globally in 2009.
PlayNow has some stiff competition though in the form of iTunes, and also Nokia’s various interweb offerings. One big weapon in the armoury is that the tracks will be DRM-free (yay!). Bring it on I say, the sooner we can get good choons and games on our SE Mobys, the sooner we’ll be truly free (or something like that….)!
[Via: GSMworld.com]