Sony, KDDI products to allow music interchange
Those new handsets rolling out of KDDI's labs already have plenty of ways to get music bought and stored, but they're about to get one more thanks to an agreement with Sony. The basic idea is that KDDI phones and Sony portable and home systems with digital music capability will be able to exchange music, and while handset-to-PMP interchange doesn't seem particularly useful, we can definitely get behind an initiative to let users immediately move tracks purchased on their phones to their Sony mini systems when they get home. There isn't any detail here on just how the DRM is all going to play out, but with Sony taking a step back from the online music store biz as of late, it's entirely possible that the purchases will come exclusively from KDDI's end. Look for free software upgrades to enable the action starting this December.[Via mocoNews]
Filed under: Multimedia, KDDI
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cswallow01 @ Oct 28th 2007 3:09PM
It's called Ericsson! Sony Ericsson, that is...
Sometimes I don't understand why Sony got into an agreement with Ericsson to begin with? Why do they even make Walkman or CyberShot branded phones?
I mean, what's the point of having Sony Ericsson, if you're not going to do anything with it. I was a CONNECT user and I wanted my CONNECT purchases to be played back on every Sony product I own, including Sony Ericsson phones. There's no reason why they couldn't have added MagicGate/ATRAC3 support to Sony Ericsson phones, while keeping it entirely open to the same formats it has now!
I'm still trying to figure out what this means, if true:
"He (Miles Flint) also revealed that there would be an announcement concerning a tie up between Sony Ericsson and the Sony Connect online music store on November 6th."
Source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/09/12/sony-ericsson-moves-down-market
It doesn't make any sense, since CONNECT is closing in March 2008.