That’s the implication of this story on Engadget, which says Sony Ericsson has hinted at plans to open an online music store so people can download songs direct to their Walkman phones. It’s unclear whether this would be a completely new service, or some kind of add-on to parent company Sony’s existing Connect online store.
Engadget isn’t too impressed: “The initiative could be dead on arrival. We’re going to take a wait-and-see approach on this one; excuse us while we dump a couple thousand MP3s on our W950i.”
Oof! There’s certainly a case to be made for the fact that the kind of people who are most likely to buy a Walkman phone probably already have their CD collections digitised and sitting on a PC or Mac ready to transfer, so why would they be interested in buying more songs from a new online service.
That said, what would be interesting would be if Sony Ericsson could preload some kind of whizzy application on the Walkman mobiles that lets you browse, sample and buy songs on the go. Although this would raise issues of what happens if you want to listen to the songs you’ve bought on, say, your hi-fi.
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