http://satelink.net/2005/07/xm-to-offer-music-downloads-through-napster/ News and information about satellite-based consumer-electronics products and services for you. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:21:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://satelink.net/2005/07/xm-to-offer-music-downloads-through-napster/comment-page-1/#comment-21 SateLink.net » Sirius, XM trade blows via release of portable players Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:19:02 +0000 http://satelink.net/2005/07/xm-to-offer-music-downloads-through-napster/#comment-21 [...] Not to be outdone, XM has announced its own portable player. And, as par for the course, it actually outshines Sirius’s S50 in several ways. The most obvious is design. XM’s “Samsung neXus” is smaller than the S50 (3.4 inches tall, 1.9 inches wide and 0.7 inches deep). It’s also sleeker, and a bit more stylish, more closely mimicking the more popular, minimalist portable mp3 players available. But the differances don’t end there. Although both players store up to 50 hours of music, the Samsung neXus has the extra feature of letting users flag songs they here on XM to purchase on Napster. This cool and useful feature shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to followers of SateLink. As we reported in July, XM and Napster are teaming up to offer a service called XM+Napster that brilliantly cross promotes both companies and offers download services through XM. [...] [...] Not to be outdone, XM has announced its own portable player. And, as par for the course, it actually outshines Sirius’s S50 in several ways. The most obvious is design. XM’s “Samsung neXus” is smaller than the S50 (3.4 inches tall, 1.9 inches wide and 0.7 inches deep). It’s also sleeker, and a bit more stylish, more closely mimicking the more popular, minimalist portable mp3 players available. But the differances don’t end there. Although both players store up to 50 hours of music, the Samsung neXus has the extra feature of letting users flag songs they here on XM to purchase on Napster. This cool and useful feature shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to followers of SateLink. As we reported in July, XM and Napster are teaming up to offer a service called XM+Napster that brilliantly cross promotes both companies and offers download services through XM. [...]

]]>