Vodafone 2.0 Live !
The latest news from Vodafone for this spring: Music Player and new navigation Vodafone Live!
Already with Vodafone developments towards this spring and summer. Fer and we talked about Look at Me, the service with which users could live to upload video portal Vodafone and “win” with this money. Little more to add to what we said, like him, in principle, one is also skeptical, but the truth is that the service has been launched in Spain because the evidence in Italy and England, where being a success have been very good… although each country is different.
Another launches, available for download from Vodafone Live!, Is the Vodafone Music Player, which is that, a music player to manage. So much music is downloaded from the People Live!, This is the trend in the business model that Vodafone wants to develop with the music on your phone.
The Player will download the one in the computer, and immediately it is synchronized with the mobile. This means that one can download music right from the PC or from mobile, and the song will automatically be available both in mobile as in the PC. You do not need the USB cable to download the song of the mobile PC. If we make the download with your phone, the song appears at the moment on our list of songs bought the player. And if it is just the opposite, receive an SMS announcing that a purchase has been done since the Vodafone Music Player (available in the MP3 music section of the folder in “my downloads outstanding”), from mobile to click on the download link is without cost. If I start thinking about this ultimate utility, imagine that we are away from home, we hear a certain song, and without navigating with the cellphone, ask a brother or someone who is put in front of the computer and with a better connection to download that song to listen to on your phone instantly.
The Vodafone Music Player interface is very simple. In addition installs quickly, and management of the songs on the list is fast (have more than one million songs on the base, with many new developments). The purchase is done in a couple of clicks. Take also included a CD recorder, which performs simple but very quickly with the copy, indicating the area within minutes we are left to fill the CD.
Regarding the price, I think that here comes a major inconvenience. The download costs 1.5 euros (plus VAT), more expensive than iTunes. However, since that is gripping Vodafone, the launch of the player is done with a flat fee of 6 euros per month (plus VAT). As always with these fares go trick. Yes are 6 euros, but only one could download a song a day. Facts the calculations, a song downloaded daily by 6 euros per month, we would buy the song to 0.2 euros. Seen like this, one enters the service, but if you decide to buy more than one song daily rate to be applied shall be 1.5 euros. So a disc at an affordable price with Vodafone will have to buy it in installments (understand that these are the bonds that involves negotiating with record companies, which are the edges of every promotion).
At last, commenting that the songs once purchased and downloaded are ours, let this service or not, we can make up to 5 copies “legal” for each song from the player, and change up to five times without losing mobile lyrics (dischosa mania to exercise restraint, although the first is a limitation with quotes).
Another news is that Vodafone has prepared a new navigation on Vodafone Live! at high speed (that’s what we are told). The real change, which for now only available for viewing on the Sony Ericsson W910i, relates to how we are going to navigate. If before shipping was vertically by the contents of the site, now it will be horizontally, with content more prominent, only the covers of different folders. As you can see in the photos, pictures and letters are larger, and in one click, we are where we want to Live!. Is Problem? That navigation in this way, horizontally, just under the covers of the categories, once you metes within each category, or go to navigate outside Live!, Content and navigation returns to form vertical, with pages long and that both know that does not facilitate the move over the Internet (today, with mobile screens we have, this can not be otherwise). The fare navigation has not changed: 6 euros (plus VAT) flat rate or 0.5 euros (plus VAT) per connection.
Does any more novelty? Facebook is inserted between the new partners Vodafone Live! and have taken a step forward in mobile banking, it is seeking from the cellphone as much as possible similar to the one we have from the computer.
