Samsung Starts ITunes Rival to Draw Smartphone Shoppers
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Samsung Electronics Co. started a service that lets users listen to music stored online as the world’s top smartphone maker competes with Apple Inc. to win consumers seeking entertainment content on their handsets.
The Music Hub service, which will be first available on the Galaxy S III smartphone that went on sale in 28 countries today, has a cloud-based catalog of 19 million songs for purchase, Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung said in a statement today. For a fixed monthly fee, users can also upload songs to servers for streaming on the maker’s devices, Samsung said.