If you have an Android mobile phone you should be pleased to hear that Rhapsody has released its Android App and is live on Android Market. The Rhapsody Android App has existing competition in the form of Pandora, Napster and others. However, Rhapsody has an advantage as it also lets its users search for tracks from internet radio stations. The Rhapsody Android App is free.

To find out exactly what Android App for Rhapsody is capable of see the demo below. An interesting development is that Rhapsody mobile users will be able to listen to music without a connection via “offline playback”.

Rhapsody had 675,000 paying subscribers in the last quarter of 2009 using its catalog of over 8 million songs. In 2009, Rhapsody released its iPhone App for Android which so far has been downloaded 1.5 million times. The Blackberry App for Rhapsody will arrive this summer.

Rhapsody has recently been revamped and pricing downgraded with the "Rhapsody Premium" service now costing" 10 dollars a month. Rhapsody is now firmly fixing its sights on future growth coming from 3G mobile phones and currently you can stream the Rhapsody catalog to the iPhone and Android devices with Blackberry smartphone user availability in the summer.