Digital Trends writes: “Not content to leave the mobile music business in the hands of network operators, electronics giant Samsung has partnered with business-to-business media broker MusicNet to offer its own mobile music download and subscription service in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The service will operate using Samsung’s own Samsung Media Studio (SMS) application, and will ship on Samsung’s K3, K5, and T9 music handsets, while a software update will deliver the new version of SMS to previously-released PlaysForSure-compatible Samsung phones like the Z5.”

“The introduction of the Samsung Media Studio is innovation in the digital age at its best,” said Mr. Seungsoo Park, VP of Sales and Marketing for Samsung’s Digital AV Division, in a release. “We have linked our internationally popular devices with a music subscription service and store adding a new dimension to how consumers interact with their devices. With the Samsung Media Studio the world is at your fingertips with millions of songs accessible anytime, anywhere.”

“Monthly subscriptions will cost €14.99 in Germany and France, and ????10.25 in the UK; individual track prices will start at €1.15, or 0.79p in the UK.”