Spotify launches mobile phone

Its service for mobile music streaming service Spotify has been expanded. Phones using Google's mobile operating system Android and iPhone users, is the firm can use four million tracks. Application to save the user more than 3,000 songs will be allowed to play while offline. However, unlike computer for free streaming service, a subscription fee for mobile users to download and save music to be paid. Approved at the end of August IPhone application service, it was submitted in July was for Apple. Applications will be free to download though, it requires the user a Spotify premium subscription, which will have to spend £ 10. Apple's iTunes Music Streaming Service for Swedish rival as one of their songs because of the millions extensive, free library saw shop. Rory Cellan-Jones All the people that count the day of the mixture depends on the future of online content has come to free and subscription content. Rory Cellan-Jones Read more Rory blog Apple currently in digital music market, which many people think can not be approved under app is the rule. Reliability However, many in the music industry as an option Spotify is concerned, and is an industry that was difficult for friendly online world is a reliable business model. It is thought that one of the reasons Spotify was so keen to break into the mobile market was the requirement that users pay a subscription charge. Only one person in about 50 currently has a membership gives it firm, easy to use free streaming services. Spotify, which started in 2008 in the UK now has more than two million users, more than one million six across Europe. The United States has not yet started, but that is intended to do by the end of the year.