Spotify has released a video of its iPhone app in action, while revealing that it's been submitted to Apple for approval.
The video, which can be watched here, shows an impressively slick user interface, as well as the app's ability to cache playlists for playing even when the user loses mobile reception (i.e: on the tube).
In an email to journalists, Spotify confirmed that the application has been submitted to Apple for approval, with the hope that it will be available on the App Store "in a few weeks".
The app will only work for premium subscribers to Spotify, providing another incentive for users to cough up the £9.99 monthly subscription fee. Spotify and its partners in the music industry are keen to get more users upgrading, rather than simply use the free ad-supported desktop version of the service.
One cloud hanging over the iPhone version, however, is the question of whether Apple will approve it for distribution in the App Store. Talk of Spotify being a potential iTunes-killer may have spooked Apple.
A hands-on piece on US blog Epicenter suggests that Spotify's iPhone app doesn't link through to the iTunes Store to buy tracks like many of its rivals. Whether this is a stumbling block in the approval process will be fascinating to watch.
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