Following on from this morning’s discovery of the Music Unlimited Android app, Sony has just pushed out the press release confirming pricing plans, specs and availability of its new cross-platform music sync tool. In short – the app is now live in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Here’s the press release along with pricing details:
“Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity™” App Now Available on Android Market
Listen to over seven million songs at anytime and anywhere
TOKYO, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Corporation (“Sony”) announces the immediate availability of the “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity™” App on Android Market in the U.S., France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand(i).
The cloud-based, digital music service gives music lovers streaming access at anytime and anywhere(ii) to an ever expanding catalogue of currently over seven million licensed songs from major labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music as well as leading independent labels and major publishers worldwide.
Users can now enjoy the service on Sony Ericsson’s Android-based mobile devices including Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ PLAY, Xperia™X10, Xperia™X8 and Xperia™ neo as well as Android-based third party devices(iii). Users can also continue to access the service on a wide variety of internet-connected Sony devices including 2010 and 2011 models of network-enabled BRAVIA® HDTVs, Blu-ray Disc™ players and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater systems as well as the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) and personal computers including VAIO®(iv) personal computers.
“‘Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity’ offers extensive breadth of content, easy music discovery and personalization through a synchronized music experience across a variety of compatible home entertainment and portable devices,” said Kazuo Hirai, Executive Deputy President, Sony Corporation. “‘Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity’ for Android is the next evolution of the service which enhances the value proposition for our customers.”
Powering the back-end of the service are Omnifone and Gracenote. Omnifone provided its award-winning platform services to develop and deliver the service across a range of device platforms as well as licensed the service with rights holders around the world to provide a global catalogue of over seven million tracks, while Gracenote’s music identification and discovery technologies and Global Media Database create a rich experience for subscribers, letting them enjoy their existing digital music collection and discover new artists and albums.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Nizzy
/ June 15, 2011Qriocity? I think i’ll wait and see if they don’t get hacked 10 more times.
MarkG
/ June 15, 2011why?
Silly kids are hacking everyone these days. Does not matter where your data is.
Nizzy
/ June 16, 2011It does matter. Sony doesn’t understand the meaning of security. If you fancy having your cc data in the wild go right ahead tho.
acupuncture
/ June 15, 2011looks like everyone will soon have their own cloud music locker/streaming/sync service lol
too bad we don’t have a truly open cloud music service. that will never happen because of the music industry. . . . so we’ll have hundreds instead.
Richard
/ June 15, 2011Woah. That’s a 32mb download. Without app2sd.
Think it’ll be a while before it’s installed here…
Peter
/ June 15, 2011Sony fail, this will never ever ever fit on my Htc Desire and for some reason it is not installable on my tablet. Bonus points to Google for the market app not noticing until after I approve the permissions.
Gary C
/ June 15, 2011On a related note, I uninstalled the Flash Player 10.3 update and it freed up stacks of space on my Desire. Anyone know if the “uninstall updates” option means it’s storing multiple versions and therefore eating up memory?
Simon
/ June 15, 2011It does, which is why when manufacturers bundle all this crap in their roms, it’s duplication.
The ROM likely contains Flash 10.0 and you have a full Flash 10.3 side-loaded taking up the same space again.
Peter
/ June 16, 2011Hopefully HTC are aware of this. There latest Desire update is
To resolve Desire’s memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread, we will cut select apps from the release.
Look for status updates starting next week. We apologize for any confusion.
Gary C
/ June 16, 2011It’d cause another amazing first-world Facebook outrage if 2.3 arrived without Flash Player onboard. I’d quite like to see that.
edhe
/ June 16, 2011Likewise, would save space wouldn’t it?