Amazon MP3 store to be available on Google Android phones

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Amazon MP3 store to be available on Google Android phones

by Brad Linder Sep 23rd 2008

As you may have heard, T-Mobile has announced the first phone running Google's Android operating system. But an OS is only as good as its applications. And while it remains to be seen whether Android has the killer apps it needs to take on Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, and RIM, the T-Mobile G1 has some pretty good ones including access to Google's mobile search, maps, Gmail, contact, calendar, and chat applications. Oh yeah, and you can watch YouTube videos and play music and movies stored on your device.

One of the most noteworthy features is access to the Amazon MP3. You can purchase DRM-free tracks from Amazon's digital music store for 89 cents, or entire albums for under $10. You need to have a WiFi connection to download songs, but you can browse the store or listen to samples using T-Mobile's wireless network.

You can check out a video of the Google Android interface after the break.

[via Engadget]

Tags: amazon-mp3, android, google-android, music

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James said 4:21PM on 9-23-2008

If I already have an HTC TyTN, do I need to be interested in this? I mean, it's cool that the whole thing is open-source and all, but I can get free WinMo dev tools as well, and there's plenty of great open-source projects that target WinMo already...

Clinton RRoD sept.3 said 8:05AM on 9-24-2008

cant you do all the stuff in paragraph one on any other phone

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