Tru Spot! Announces Tru Spot! Mobile for BlackBerry Smartphones
January 20, 2010 by Tru Spot · 2 Comments
The first African Blackberry Application / Mobile for Unlimited African Music streaming…
LAGOS – January 20, 2010 – Tru Spot! today has released its first version of Tru Spot! Mobile for BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM). BlackBerry smartphone users can now listen to their favorite African artists and Tru Spot! radio stations wherever they go. The web application, which is compatible with BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.3 and higher is available as a free download by visiting mytruspot.com/bb from your BlackBerry smartphone.
The Tru Spot! Mobile application provides BlackBerry smartphone users all over the world with all African music has to offer, as they discover and listen to the music expert programmed stations with genre based stations or individual tracks from artists.
Tru Spot! Mobile has been built to handle all wireless networks and with smartphone accessories like the car stereo jacks, music gateway, multimedia headset and visor mount speakerphone, you can enjoy listening to African music at home, in the car or on the go while doing other tasks such as instant messaging, sending tweets, using facebook or even web browsing using an Opera Mini browser (Recommended to download).
Included in the history-making history groundbreaking Tru Spot! Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones are rating system for tracks played, detailed artist biographies and song reviews for each song, providing a more entertaining experience for discovering African music. The Tru Spot! Mobile application is commerical free and price free.
“Tru Spot! Mobile makes your BlackBerry smartphone a giant MP3 player full of African music that you’re yet to know about, without even saving a file” said Ike Orizu, CEO of Tru Spot!. “And because of how smooth it could stream under a steady network, you basically have a commercial free radio station for your car, home, and that emergency party.”
What Tru Spot! for Blackberry has now?:
* Free African music library featuring thousands of songs
* High-quality stereo playback from all streaming wireless connections
* Recommendation based genre stations
* Individual track playback
* With an *Opera Mini browser* you can still surf the web while listening
* View artist biographies and photos
* View album art and leave reviews
* View detailed playlists
* Pause and skip songs
* Rate songs
The Tru Spot! Radio Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones is available immediately as a free download by visiting mytruspot.com/bb from your BlackBerry web browser or visit www.mytruspot.com/blackberry for more details.
About Tru Spot!.
Tru Spot! is Africa’s first Social Radio company bringing in a fresh way to how African music are discovered. Visit www.mytruspot.com for more information.
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Tru Spot! for Blackberrys Launch 01.20.10
January 14, 2010 by iKE Orizu · 9 Comments
So much as we said has been going on here at Tru Spot! lately, and we want to keep thanking you all for the continued priceless support. We had a nice, yet busy holiday and we entered 2010 with a better and wider vision.
We go through all your requests and by far, the most requested feature has been mobile access to Tru Spot! to enjoy the best of your African songs and playlists on the go.Blackberry, however, is the platform we get the most requests for and we have been listening. And we are glad to announce to you that come 01.20.2010 which is 20th January, 2010 Blackberry users will be able to download the new Tru Spot! application on their phones and listen to any song, whenever, wherever through their Blackberrys, Tru Spot! for Blackberry will be submitted to the Blackberry app world as well.
Features
Listen to unlimited free African music and streaming radio stations on the go with your BlackBerry® smartphone. Discover new music on the fly with thousands of Tru Spot! users sharing the music they love. Requires EDGE, WiFi, or 3G data access.
- Listen to streaming radio and unlimited free music on the go
- View artist profiles, ratings, comments, genre spots and bios of artists
- You can skip, rate and comment on tracks as much as you want
- Search the entire Tru Spot! catalog
- And a surprise addon to be announced on the launch date
As the revolution continues, please begin telling your friends and everyone else who has a blackberry, Tru Spot! is coming to their Blackberry!.
New Phase! New Office! Let’s begin
January 14, 2010 by iKE Orizu · Leave a Comment
Founder & CEO
Well everyone, today, this January 14th, we are glad to announce to you that we have take a new fresh step forward. We packed our things out the old office and have moved to a new place where we hope will help us improve as we have a lot of work to do this 2010. Our little room for now might be small now, but we will move into a bigger office as time goes on. But this little room will be known as the very first tiny official Tru Spot’s headquarters. Oh by the way, welcome to our new official company blog.
On the contrary, the new features and partnerships coming your way this year from Tru Spot! are just so amazing and we can’t wait to get it out to you. The official executive team will be announce on this blog by next week, so you get to know our crazy, fun yet dedicated team members that will help you enjoy Tru Spot! potential to the fullest. But until then… It’s Your Tru Spot!, It’s My Tru Spot! – Rock On!
iKE





