7digital Music Store for BlackBerry

CNET Editors' review

by: Jessica Dolcourt on December 04, 2009

How do you buy songs for your BlackBerry? We recommend taking a look at 7digital Music Store, a free, well-designed app for both buying new music directly from the BlackBerry and for listening to the MP3s and playlists you already own on your phone. The app connects you to the 7digital online music store, so expect to register for a free account from the app. Luckily, you won't need to enter it each time you sign in.

With 7digital open, depress the right convenience key--or scroll to the right--to launch a menu that lets you browse, shuffle, and search your own music. You can also launch playlists and view your most-played songs. When the app opens for the first time, it offers to import your music. You're able to import more music later on from a Menu option in any My Music screen.

The left convenience key, or a hard scroll to the left, opens the 7digital store, where you can similarly browse categories, search, check the charts, and access your 7digital locker. There's the requisite audio preview, and suggestions for similar music you might like, but we'd like bios front and center alongside those tempting tracks. Purchases of albums and singles are made over the air via data or Wi-Fi; adjust your preference in the program options.