What It Is: The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which lets you buy songs and download them right to your iPhone or iPod Touch — no computer necessary — as long as youre in a wireless hotspot.
Who Its For: Compulsive shoppers and instant-gratification music-hounds.
Why It’s Worthy: Provided youre in a hotspot, youll find the service to be extremely quick, easy and smooth (we downloaded about forty songs in just under six minutes). Its the full iTunes music store, too, though most of the music is only accessible via the search mechanism. Also, your songs download automatically to your desktop iTunes the next time you sync up your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Our Only Complaint: If you dont know what youre looking for, or just want to browse, you might be disappointed with the dozen or so “top ten” music selections in each music genre category. Somehow, though, that didnt stop us from buying most of our songs of these very same “top ten” lists, which are not unlike the New Releases bins at your average brick-and-mortar music store.
Cost: Free to download to your iPhone or iPod Touch, but songs cost the same as on standard iTunes ($.99 for most songs, $1.29 for iTunes Plus songs).
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