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Rejoice! Download Katy Perry From Amazon to Your BlackBerry Without Waiting!

December 14, 2010 at 8:16 am PT

You know how everyone you know who owns a BlackBerry is always complaining that they can’t buy and download MP3s from Amazon directly to their phone? Problem solved!

At least theoretically: I just tried to download the new app to my year-old Tour, and got an error message. And BlackBerry’s support link for the app gave me a 404 error.

Meanwhile, some context: Various retailers, carriers and phones have offered over-the-air downloads for years, and Apple brought them to the iPhone in 2009.

Despite the music industry’s big hopes, they’ve never really taken off in the U.S.

Tagged with: 404 error, advertising, Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, digital, download, entertainment, error message, Internet, iPhone, iTunes, Katy Perry, link, MediaMemo, MP3, music, Peter Kafka, phone, Research In Motion, support, tour

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Foo-Bar/100001341113124 Foo Bar

Congratulations, Peter! If you like Katherine Perry’s work, I recommend Kesha as well. That’s spelt K, E, a dollar sign, H, and A. Cheeky name, I know, but there’s a depth to her music that I think you’ll find quite stirring.
Anonymous

The blackberry tour is not very old but it doesn’t work on it. Get with the programming RIM>>>>>>>
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/ PKafka

Is that really the answer? That the new app doesn’t work on my year-old phone, was which was mid to upper-tier at the time when I bought it? If so, wish RIM would have informed my handset would be outmoded before my 2 year contract expired…
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/ PKafka

This stuff makes me feel like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. “Get off my lawn!”