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Spotify comes to Symbian!

Nokia and Spotify have teamed up to offer the popular music streaming service to phones supporting the Symbian operating system, which currently covers around 50% of the global smartphone market. For the uninitiated, Spotify allows users to stream music to a PC or Laptop and enjoy hours of free music. The service, which gains revenue from advertising, recently made the jump to mobile phones with the iPhone and Android powered handsets blazing a trail.

Gustav Söderström, Spotify’s director of portable solutions, said: “The launch of Spotify’s Symbian app opens up our mobile music service to potentially millions more music fans across Europe. This takes our mobile music offering to a totally new level.” The big winners here, apart from us consumers, are Nokia. Having received scathing criticism from several corners of the web over its aging smartphone platform, the Finnish manufacturer are able to return fire by scoring one of the apps of the current generation of smartphones. Fear not though, it’s not just Nokia users who’ll be able to get in on the Spotify action; Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones running the Symbian OS will also be able to download the app.

Available to download now directly from Spotify, the service that changed how we listen to music on our PC forever is set to do it again. This time on your phone. Click here to check out our range of Symbian smartphones including the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, N86 8MP and Sony Ericsson Satio.