Introducing Sprint Music Plus

A new music service is now available for Sprint's customers, aimed at those who are fond of having their mobile phone, or their MP3 player available with them at all times, namely Sprint Music Plus.

The new service was put in place along with a mobile application that sports the same name, and can be accessed either from the mobile phone, or on sprint.com, providing users with the possibility to discover, purchase and play music, including full tracks, albums, ringtones and ringback tones.

The Sprint Music Plus service is powered by RealNetworks Inc., the wireless carrier announced, adding that it was launched as a full-featured music and tone manager

The service enables users to:

Create music playlists.
Assign ringback tones to play for different callers and times of day.
Search for music by artist, title or keyword.
Organize full tracks/albums by artist, genre and custom playlists using the music library manager.
Preview content – sample millions of music tracks and tones, which are updated daily.
Get new music recommendations based on their musical tastes.

When used on Sprint 4G, the service would offer an enhanced experience, since users won't have to wait too long for the music to download.

Sprint Music Plus was put in place for handsets running under Android on the wireless carrier's network (it can be downloaded from the Sprint Zone app), as well as on BlackBerry and Java Feature Phones that will come to the carrier starting with May.

Handsets that land at Sprint before May would be able to access ringtones and ringback tones from Sprint Music Plus through Sprint Mobile Web (WAP).

“Sprint Music Plus is an easy way for our customers to discover new music and tones and manage all of their music content in one convenient place,” said Sean Khurana, vice president-Consumer Product Marketing at Sprint.

“Sprint makes sure our customers always have access to their favorite music by providing a wide array of options, ranging from free apps downloaded from Android Market, BlackBerry App World or GetJar.com to Sprint Radio to purchasing tunes from Sprint Music Plus.”