Cingular's Free Music

PreacherTom writes "Music on one's mobile phone is nothing surprising: in fact, it is the entire principle of the upcoming iPhone. Downloading it for free is a different matter; both Verizon and Sprint's service directs to a proprietary store and charges up to $2.50 per song. Cingular plans on taking another route, having announced that they are gearing up to offer free music downloads to compatible phones. They hope to make up the difference through fees from the music subscription services for each new reference. The catch: a $15 per month fee."

Yippity fucking doo.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's free as long as you pay $180 per year. Sorry if I'm overly excited.

Re:"free"

[revlayle]

My thoughts exactly...

It's NOT free... as in beer

so it's not free then?

[Anonymous Coward]

so actually it's not free, it's fifteen bucks a month.

last time i checked, "free" meant "no bucks a month".

Meh.

[Rob T Firefly]

The real method to get free music on most mid-priced phones, is hold the phone up toward a cheap speaker and hit "record" on the voice memo feature. On the phone's crappy mono speaker, the end result will be indistinguishable from if you somehow imported lossless uncompressed PCM data from the studio masters.

Re:they didn't say what they meant by free

[Aqua_boy17]

You keep using that word. But I don't think it means what you think it means.

Re:Meh.

[Rob T Firefly]

You obviously live in the US. I've seen teenagers in the UK and Japan doing that.

People in the US do it too, just not the smart ones. There's one guy on my bus home who seems to really love playing the same 5-second-long 50 Cent ringtone over and over again. If our bus ever stalls somewhere while trapping us inside somehow, he'll be the first one killed and eaten by savage commuters.