Social.FM will be coming to your cellphone; similar to Last.FM, in that it offers a streaming genre-specific radio service, Social.FM also gives access to a user’s own digital music collection and a social network with buddy-list music playback. Available for Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets, the service requires a 3G or WiFi connection.

HandMark has contracts with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Orange and Telus in the US, Canada, UK, Austria, Germany and Netherlands; it will be preinstalled on handsets as well as released as an over-the-air download. The first releases should be seen within the next quarter.

Labels: Cellphones

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