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Japanese Lismo beats iTunes everyway

Posted By: Zodingliani Chinzah | Apr 12 2006

Its wonderful news knowing that some company out there is as good as or better than Apple's iTunes. I am talking about Lismo, a Japanese multi-faceted cellphone music platform under KDDI's wireless unit chaku-uta that tries to achieve for the Japanese market a convergence of PCs and cellphones.

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What sets Lismo apart is its online store Music Port that enables CD playback and ripping. It also allows for WIN phones with chaku-uta connection to the USB port of a PC for synchronizing songs between phone and PC.

Downloading songs is made simple. Users can buy from mobile sites which will be taxed on the monthly bill or one can be more interactive and opt for an online community while listening taking users to a world of blogs and artist informations or even exchange playlist.

Last but not the least it also offers photo albums, calendars and address books that can be synchronized with phones.

Now do you agree with me when I say that Apple is not the best?

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