Get iTunes on a phone that’s not an iPhone
September 24th, 2008, 2:13 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Alltel Wireless announced today that it added a service allowing its users to listen to their iTunes music collection on 10 Alltel cell phones.
But it’s not Apple’s iTunes.
Instead, Alltel is offering nuTsie, a music service that allows people to share their iTunes libraries and playlists on their mobile devices.
A closer look at the service reveals that nuTsie stores an index of your iTunes library on its server. It doesn’t store the actual song files. Instead, when you play a song on the phone, nuTsie checks its own library to see if it has the same song. If it doesn’t have your favorite album, you’ll have to wait for them to add it.
nuTsie also has a few social-networking services, mainly sharing playlists with friends and strangers to get exposed to new music.
It’s an interesting concept for people who really love and organize their iTunes library. But you’d think that those folks would carry their iPod around all the time anyway.
And a drawback for freeloaders is the mobile service costs money (the PC-based version is free). Alltel users who don’t mind paying the $4.99 per month or $19.99 a year can download the application right on their phone at the “Alltel Shop.”
Alltel phones that work with nuTsie include the MOTORAZR V3m and V3c, the MOTOKRZR K1m, the MOTORAZR2 V9m and the MOTOROKRTM Z6m, the LG AX565, The Wave by LG, the LG AX8600, Samsung Muse, the Alltel Hue by Samsung and The Wafer by Samsung. More are on the way.
nuTsie is also available for the Blackberry for $19.99.
Images from nuTsie
nuTsie Related:
- Free Music Downloads Without the Legal Peril (NY Times)
- Alltel phones get a little Nutsie (CNET)
- nuTsie’s ad gets attention on YouTube (Seattle PI)
- Facebook goes nuTsie for streaming (PC World)
- Google Phone launches for $179, photos!
- Photos! AT&T’s new Internet tablet
- Apple’s iTunes store adds Line Rider
- My own list of free tech stuff online
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All fine and good … however Alltel isn’t a carrier locally. But, since Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel should be completed later this year – what are the chances this will make its way into Verizon’s stable of offerings? That should be the question of interest here in the OC.