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BBM Music Busts Into Britain

BBM Music Busts Into Britain Research In Motion has today opened the floodgates of its BBM Music service for UK users, allowing BlackBerry owners up and down the country to share and discover new music from their peers and beyond.

Released in the US earlier this month, the £4.99 app (downloadable from BlackBerry App World) allows users to select 50 tracks to stream on their phones and store offline, Spotify-style. Each month, 25 of these can be swapped around so your ears don’t bleed listening to that Sean Kingston track you never realised felt so much like self-flagellation.

50 might sound a little stingy at first, but factor in the ability to add friends on the service and share your wares with them and you have a pretty nifty social integration that has yet to be found on the troubled handset. You have access to all of the tracks that your friends have chosen and from a catalogue of millions there are even more reasons to get adding as many people as you know (and don’t) to capitalise on it.

It’s worth noting that the actual tracks can’t be transferred from one handset to another or to a PC, so you’ll be restricted to listening on your phone or connecting it via headphone jack to your 12.1 home cinema system.

The deal is sweetened with a 60-day free trial giving you a chance to decide whether you want to take part in the newly launched service. In order to use BBM Music, you need a minimum of OS version 5, BBM version 6, and a copy of BlackBerry App World version 3, so those of you clutching on to your Curve 8310s can stop getting excited now.


Industry News posted by Jan Moys on 16 November 2011

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Hmmmm

I'll stick with Spotify, I think.

Comment posted by Anonymous on 17/11/2011 00:44:59

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