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Spotify embraces Symbian

Music-streaming service Spotify is now available on Symbian handsets too, for paying subscribers at least. Spotify already has a mobile client, but that's limited to Apple's iPhone and devices running Android; Symbian might not have as many headlines, but it's running on more than half the world's smartphones and Spotify needs …

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Windows Mobile?

It's a shame there's no Windows Mobile client; A little light entertainment on a train wouldn't be so bad.

They've been beaten to market, however. Groovefish streams Grooveshark media to WinMobile clients. It's not pretty, but it's functional.

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Windows Mobile

Still no Windows Mobile support - but good on them for slowly getting around to adding more platforms.

Perhaps I may get to see WinMo Spotify just in time for Christmas.

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Mobile Client Makes the Difference

It's the mobile clients that make the difference between Spotify and all the other all-you-can-eat services, some (most?) of which are cheaper than Spotify but don't seem to get the same amount of attention.

Better late than never for Symbian phones. At least these users will be able to listen to spotify and do other stuff with their phones, unlike the Iphone lot (thanks to a bizarre decision to not allow multitasking on for 3rd party apps)

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Wont be using it

No FREE streaming on this I see!

Pint

Tick tock

I am waiting BlackBerry...

Gimme a Windows Client!

.. and you'll see my £££ coming in!

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Expensive...

I'd subscribe to Spotify if it didn't cost as much as a TV licence. Tenner a month? Bugger off.

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Cheap...

@Rob Kendrick:

Expensive, compared to what? Downloading albums illegally? Sure.

If, on the other hand, you want to listen to a whole host of new-release albums without having to shell out £7 a time to find out if they're any good, it makes its money back every single week.

Ironically, your TV license example is a good idea of exactly why Spotify works. How much TV would people actually watch if you had to pay per programme that you wanted to watch? Sure, there'd be some (infrequent TV watchers) who might find it beneficial ("£10 a month to watch TV? Bugger off") but an all-encompassing licence to watch everything on terrestrial telly is much preferable, shirley?

But, to bring the post back to its beginning, it's pretty hard to convince people to switch to a subscription model when they're already used to ripping all their music for free.

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+data

The fact that this is £10 on top of data costs ("unlimited"!) makes this a pricey service. Then factor in that you can't keep anything after you cancel. £5 would be the sweet spot for me.

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@Studley

It's Expensive compared to other products that do the same thing.

Napster does it for £5/month, and it has an iphone client.

Sky Songs is £6.49/month AND you can download 10 songs a month for free.

Your right, spotify is more expensive than stealing, but it's also more expensive than most of it's rivals.

Like i said earlier, it's the mobile clients that make the difference.

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