MotoMusic online service opens in Singapore

SINGAPORE--Motorola today officially announced its music download service MotoMusic with over 750,000 songs, videos and ringtones. The US company acquired music provider Soundbuzz headquartered in Singapore to manage this service in January this year.

The songs will come with Windows Media DRM which is similar to Nokia's approach with its online music store that debuted in late April. Each track will cost S$1.99, while videos are priced at S$4 when downloaded on the PC. Songs purchased over-the-air via WAP directly onto the handset will cost S$2.50 per title.

Users will be able to transfer a music or video file to a portable music player or burn them to a CD up to three times. However, music from EMI can be burned to a CD only twice.

According to Motorola, the service is not specific to the phone-maker and is compatible with handsets from other brands.

The company also showcased five phones including the 5-megapixel camera-phone ZINE ZN5 and touchscreen smart phone MING A1600. The EM330, W388 and VE538 made up the rest of the portfolio at the event. These handsets will either have a dedicated MotoMusic icon or a short hyperlink bookmark in the phone's browser to make accessing the store more convenient.

Model name	Features
Motorola ZINE ZN5 Read first take	Notable features: 5-megapixel autofocus camera with Xenon flash Uses Kodak Imaging Technology and Kodak Perfect Touch One-touch upload to Kodak Gallery 2.4-inch QVGA LCD 350MB onboard memory with microSD expansion card slot ModeShift technology 3.5mm audio jack Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 118 x 50.5 x 12mm; 114g Availability: Sep 2008
Motorola MING A1600 Click for more details	Notable features: Onboard GPS pre-loaded with country maps on microSD card 3-megapixel autofocus camera FM radio Business card reader OCR scanner and Talking dictionary Smart handwriting recognition 40MB built-in memory 2.1-inch 320 x 240-pixel TFT color display Availability: TBC
Motorola EM330 Click for more details	Notable features: 1.3-megapixel camera Bluetooth A2DP 20MB built-in memory with microSD expansion card slot 1.8-inch 128 x 160-pixel main color display Tri-band GSM with EDGE and GPRS 49.5 x 94.4 x 17.4mm Availability: TBC
Motorola VE538 Click for more details	Notable features: Onboard Google Search, Gmail and YouTube apps 2-megapixel camera 10MB built-in memory with microSD expansion card slot Bluetooth stereo A2DP Tri-band GSM with 3G 2-inch 240 x 320-pixel TFT color display Availability: TBC
Motorola W388 Click for more details	Notable features: microSD expansion card slot CrystalTalk technology VGA camera 1.6-inch 128 x 160-pixel TFT color display Availability: TBC