14 DAY TRIAL // Telia Sonera, the main international sponsor of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Helsinki, has announced that it will be launching a mobile karaoke service which will offer a wide selection of songs from the ESC.
The service will be available for most new smartphones and will bring the popular karaoke experience onto mobile, as well as many popular tunes that customers can enjoy.
It will be easy for users to download a song onto their device, as they'll only have to order the track through the service, named 'Sonera SurfPort', receive it through a MMS message and store the files on their mobile phone.
Each karaoke song will include the musical background in midi format, subtitles as well as the accompanying image. The price for a downloaded song is of 1.90 Euro. The user will also be billed the data transmission charge aside from the song's fee.
"The mobile phone is increasingly becoming the device for listening to music and other music services. We have already offered karaoke - so much loved by Finns - as a broadband service, so the mobile version is a natural next step. From now on, singing karaoke is no more limited to time and place, as we can all free our internal singer supported by the ever-present mobile phone," says director Pasi Mehtonen, Mobile Services Finland.
According to Sonera, the launch of mobile karaoke is tuned to the Eurovision Song Contest atmosphere. The ESC section of their service will include 12 popular Finnish Eurovision songs from the previous years. Aside from ESC songs, there are many more popular karaoke tunes that a user can choose from.