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First legal P2P music download service for S60?

Applications - March 22nd, 2006 - Written by Jukka Eklund

That’s what they claim, over at PeerBox Mobile. With the app you get access to open P2P networks, and they also license music from labels. No info yet on which P2P networks you get access to, or how many labels have signed up. My quick test gave promising, yet confusing results. I was able to find and download Madonna’s hit single, but it turned out to be some other song by Madonna. Also I was able to find music by Finnish group PMMP, but downloading stuck at 0%. Well, as always with cool new services, it’s still in beta.

This app also promises to identify any song that’s playing, through the phone’s microphone. How cool is that as a concept? Just push record when you hear a nice song playing on a bar, Peerbox will identify it and offer it for a download (free or legal).

This one is definitely one to watch, but I hope they make a version for 3rd Edition devices soon. I am a happy user of Nokia 3250, and they proudly display it already in their site as supported :)
Another P2P client for mobile:
Symella

About the author Jukka Eklund

I have been working in the Finnish IT industry for over 10 years, and spend most of that time working with a some form of Internet service. [..]

Comments(4)

  1. Darla wrote

    I was actually able to download a song by Mariah Carey with no problem but I searched and found 2 songs by Cyndi Lauper which are still stuck on 0%. When I got into the details section it states that the download status is slow so no telling if it will download or not. Lol, don’t laugh at my music selections!!

  2. Darla Mack wrote

    PeerBox Mobile P2P Mobile Music Sharing

    Both Tommi and Jukka over at S60 have come across this new music file sharing software. Don’t get too excited though. Although they claim to be legal you have to wonder just how thats possible. This fits into the

  3. Jukka wrote

    Darla, you could do worse and 80s rock anyway :) About the viruses, it is good to be cautious but for Symbian only way the virus can do anything is if the user accepts to install something. So there is no way a virus could sneak into your phone by just downloading music.

  4. Darla wrote

    Jukka,
    I left the songs that were at 0% where they were and tried again the next day. They downloaded with no problem. I wrote a little review about the app and I am really enjoying it!
    Fortunately I have never encountered having a virus on my phone even though a friends device sent me an mms. The concern that I had was my assumption of downloading things from a pc files sharing environment and obtaining a virus hidden in the download being similar with mobiles. (if that makes any sense) :)

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