Located at the legendary Island Records Studios in London, mobile music company Omnifone was founded in 2003 with the aim of bringing legal and affordable digital music to the mass market over mobile handsets. Last year Omnifone launched MusicStation, a low cost all-you-can-eat subscription-based mobile music service that delivers the world's music to most mobile handsets for a weekly fee.
MusicStation provides a complete music experience, enabling users to search for music, download and play music on their mobile, create, manage and share playlists and tracks with other users. MusicStation runs on virtually all 2.5G/3G/HSDPA music compatible mobiles. Its user interface and functionality are virtually identical across all manufacturer handset models. Built-in networked functions, including the ability to share playlists with other users, mean that MusicStation delivers a truly compelling music experience on the mobile.
Downloaded MusicStation tracks and user playlists are stored centrally so that if a customer's mobile is stolen, lost or upgraded, the replacement handset will automatically restore the customer's music, playlists, friends and preferences the first time MusicStation is switched on.
MusicStation automatically stores a customer's favourite tracks on the phone's internal or removable memory. Whilst some phones can store thousands of tracks, others store less than one hundred. MusicStation maximises the capabilities of any mobile phone using unlimited downloads from the network to provide access to any of the catalogue at any time. MusicStation's technology also ensures that the memory allocated on the phone is always used to store the customer's favourite and about-to-be-played music. This means that users can listen to their favourite tracks when in Flight Safe mode and have unlimited access to the full catalogue when connected to a 2.5G/3G/HSDPA network.
At launch their target was to have 100 Million users within a year. Musicstation is currently live in Hong Kong, Sweden and the UK. We want more!
See the demo here
