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Mobile entertainment experience gets slammed by Time Warner CEO
If you've tried the native Verizon VCAST and Sprint Music Store features lately, did you come away feeling unimpressed and possibly frustrated? It's been mused that the reason mobile handset-based music services have not reached critical mass with consumers was because the limitations and difficulties with usage. This is true, and nowhere has a system like an iPod clickwheel been installed -- along with music selection software -- on any mobile that gets close to the reality distortion field the iPod ecosystem creates. So, it is no wonder that Time Warner's CEO is kinda bashing the existing and overall mobile music experience for consumers at 3GSM this week. Said Ed Bronfman Jr., who said mobile music purchasing is expensive, complicated and slow, added that "We need to make it easy, affordable and quick to get music on mobile phones -- until we achieve this goal, we will be leaving billions of dollars on the table."
Vodafone annonces agreement to launch YouTube Mobile
We won't get all wrapped up in the semantics of marketing words or anything, but with YouTube on the tip of everyone's tongue who lusts for on-the-go video clips of, well, everything -- your day is coming. In addition to 2006's announcement that YouTube Mobile would be coming to U.S. customers of CDMA carrier Verizon Wireless, Vodafone in Europe has "announced an agreement of an expectation to offer" YouTube Mobile to its customers across Europe soon, with initial launching to Voda's UK customers. When will Voda customers see YouTube Mobile sit alongside Vodafone Live! on all those millions of handsets? Sometime soon according to Vodafone's rather verb vagueness here.[via Slashphone]
