Spotify comes to Symbian

Richard Goodwin

Spotify has announced today that it will be releasing its pioneering music application on the Symbian format, effectively opening it up to millions of new mobile users.

The Spotify mobile application was previously only available on the iPhone and Android format. However, it will now be open to Symbian users, which is said to account for 50 per cent of the global OS market, according to a Spotify press statement.

According to Spotify, its new mobile music platform will run on a wide-range of mid-to-high end Nokia smartphones, such as the Nokia 6220 Classic, the Nokia E71 and the 5800 XpressMusic models.

Gustav Söderström, director of portable solutions at Spotify, says: “The launch of Spotify’s Symbian app opens up our mobile music service to potentially millions more music fans across Europe.”

He added: “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.”

Additional features of the Spotify app for Symbian include the ability to listen to tracks in Offline mode through playlists, a constantly evolving database of music, as well as the ability to run Spotify in the background whilst you perform other tasks, such as browsing the web, texting, or sending an email.

Spotify Mobile is now available to Spotify Premium subscribers in the UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway and Finland.