Spotify brings its mobile app to Symbian

Monday November 23, 2009

While the iPhone and Android are relatively niche platforms, this deal opens the Spotify app up for the mobile mainstream. Nokia’s smartphones run on the Symbian platform which covers over 50% of the global smartphone market.

Other handset manufacturers selling devices which run on the Symbian platform include Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

As with Android and the iPhoner, the Symbian app will only work for Spotify subscribers paying £9.99 a month.

Having announced recently that its US launch has been delayed until 2010, mobile is the streaming music service’s core focus at the moment.

Director of portable solutions at Spotify Gustav Söderström says, “The launch of Spotify’s Symbian app opens up our mobile music service to potentially millions more music fans across Europe. Many mid to high-end Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phone owners might be surprised to realise they can run Spotify on their phones. This takes our mobile music offering to a totally new level.”

As Spotify will now run on the 5800 XpressMusic handset, it could prove to be a serious challenger to Nokia’s own Comes With Music offering.