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Why pay for mobile MySpace when you can get it for free?

myspace.jpgMySpace hasn't yet signed any operator deals here in the UK, and until it does, we can only speculate about how it'll work, and whether we'll have to pay for it. Over in the US, they have rolled out with Helio and Cingular.

Darla Mack has a review of Cingular's MySpace application, which quickly turns into a list of ways you can access MySpace from your phone without paying the $2.99 monthly subscription charge for the official app. Interesting stuff though: I'd not heard of T9space before, for example.

As a punter (albeit one who still can't figure out how to properly pimp up his MySpace page), the notion of paying extra to access the site from my phone seems just... wrong. Aren't they going to be selling ads to make moolah out of my friend-collecting?

And especially with operators like 3 and T-Mobile giving unfettered access to the Web through their handsets, keen MySpace users (and indeed those from any social networking community) are bound to find workarounds like those listed in the Darla Mack post.

(via Darla Mack)

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