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T-Mobile customers get the gift of free Google Music tracks

By | November 18, 2011, 8:44am PST

Summary: T’is the season for sharing music for T-Mobile customers with Android devices and Google Music, from now till the end of 2011.

Now that Google Music is live, T-Mobile Android customers will be getting exclusive and free access to full-length select songs via Google Music, every week until the end of the year.

As long as they have a smartphone running at least Android 2.2 (Froyo), T-Mobile customers will be able to find the T-Mobile Free Tracks (pictured right) within the Google Music app, and download the featured artists’ music for free in the remaining weeks in 2011. This week, they can download some new tunes from Drake and Maroon 5.

According to the T-Mobile Blog announcing the carrier’s partnership with Google Music, its customers will soon be able to charge impulsive song purchases to their monthly phone bills too. That will just make it a little too convenient for finger-tapping users to add to their music collection, but that’s precisely the idea.

While I doubt the promise of several free songs would convince anyone to switch carriers (how much could a few songs cost?), it is a nice perk for current T-Mobile customers to give Google Music a whirl. Non-T-Mobile customers take heart: you can still access these free songs as long as your T-Mobile friend shares his loot on Google+ (assuming you’re a part of his “circle”), you’ll be able to download the entire track via the social network. T’is the season for sharing, after all.

[Source: T-Mobile's Blog]

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Gloria Sin is a freelance journalist based in New York City.

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Gloria Sin is a New York-based freelance journalist who writes about the tech toys that you can't live without for ZDNet. She has little patience for poorly designed user experiences, and is not afraid of opening the guts of her own machines for repair or hacking her gadgets for new uses.

She has written for FastCompany.com, Popular Science, Olympic News Service; she currently covers the startup scene in the Tri-State area for NYConvergence.com.

Prior to ZDNet, Gloria was the online editor for Dance International, and dabbled in web design and social media consulting. When she is offline, you will find her at an ice rink living out her figure skating dreams. Follow her on Twitter.

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Very false and misleading title Its only for Android 2.2 that leaves out millions of T-moble customers like me. And i don't trust Google so they can keep there free music There is no dought something typed to the free music we will only find out later then have to triple opt-out signed in blood.
@Stan57 Its a not false or misleading article. Read it. Its not only for Android 2.2. It says "As long as they have a smartphone running AT LEAST Android 2.2 (Froyo), T-Mobile customers will be able to find the T-Mobile Free Tracks (pictured right) within the Google Music app". If your smartphone isnt running Android 2.2 or higher, its time to get a new phone. Considering Android v4.0 is already out.
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