Spotify Launches Symbian Client

Spotify has launched a version of its mobile music application for Symbian-powered handsets from the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

The availability of Spotify on Symbian mobile phones is down to TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) technology.

This move means that 250 million mobile phone users with Symbian OS version 9.2 and above can download the Spotify music application. This makes it is easy for users to access their favourite music on their mobile phones, the company said.

“Spotify has quickly become one of the leading music applications on the internet, and keeps impressing us with their innovative and extremely ambitious mindset regarding the user experience,” said Charlotta Falvin, CEO of TAT, in a statement. “We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Spotify to help realise their visions for a mobile version that can now reach hundreds of millions of music lovers that use Symbian based phones.”

TAT officials said the technology used for Spotify’s downloadable music application has long been used to create advanced user interfaces across various mobile platforms. Using that same technology to build downloadable applications is a logical step as post-loaded services on mobile devices rapidly expands from iPhones to the much larger total smartphone market, the company said.

“Spotify has chosen to work with TAT for our S60 application, and for other upcoming platforms, as we think it is the only tool on these platforms that allows for rapid high level language UI development, separated from the core low level application,” said Gustav Soderstrom, vice president of products at Spotify, in a statement.

“It lets our UED resources construct the UI directly, instead of specifying it to developers, and allows portability of the UI between platforms that run the Cascades rendering engine,” Soderstrom said. “As anyone who has worked in mobile knows, doing a great application is only half the work – cost efficiency, portability and maintenance of such an advanced application across many hardware platforms and form factors is very tricky and easily gets out of control, making it impossible to maintain consistency and launch new features.”