MySpace Mobile Makes Friends with Sprint

MySpace has rolled out a new version of its mobile Web site, and Sprint is offering MySpace Mobile on all its customers' Web-enabled phones.

MySpace my not be as hip as it once was, but it’s still the 800-pound, knuckle-dragging gorilla of the social networking world. Now, MySpace has officially launched a new version of itsown mobile Web site, letting users with Web-enabled mobile phones sign into the service, update profiles, receive messages, and more. And, U.S. wireless carrier Sprint is hopping on board, offering all its Web-enabled users access to the new MySpace mobile site.

“Mobile is the next generation of social networking,” said MySpace senior director of mobile development Brandon Lucas, in a statement. “Our partnership with Sprint makes it easier and faster for customers to get the most out of MySpace when they’re on the go.”

MySpace currently offers subscription-based mobile services to AT&T and Helio users, but MySpace’s revamped mobile Web site is accessible to any mobile user with Web access. However, MySpace’s partnership with Sprint is “the first direct access” to the new MySpace Mobile service, and is part of a larger plan to bring all of Fox Interactive Media’s mobile sites (including IGN, Photobucket, FoxSports, etc.) to Sprint mobile customers as part of Sprint’s standard data services offerings.

Sprint implies that accessing MySpace Mobile through Sprint provides access to an “enhanced feature set,” but it would seem those enhanced features are part of the new MySpace Mobile rollout—and therefore available to any MySpace user—rather than exclusive to Sprint.