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Spotify's S60 App Gives It A Greater Shot At Carrier Deals

mocoNews  Nov 23 09

Spotify already previewed its in-development Symbian S60 app in September. Now it’s ready, giving the music service a much wider mobile footprint (Symbian runs half the world’s smartphones).

Premium users can download the app themselves from m.spotify.com, but the real potential for Spotify is in carrier relationships. Pretty much all of them carry Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones, and consumers - at least, in Europe - are still pretty likely to pick one of those over rivals.

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