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Friday, 04 March 2005 |
Mobile music challenges
'iPod age'
BBC News -
UK
Nokia and Microsoft have agreed a deal to work on delivery of music
to handsets, while Sony Ericsson has unveiled its phone Walkman and Motorola is
working on an iTunes phone.
Can mobile phones replace the MP3 player in your pocket?
The music download market has been growing steadily since record firms embraced
digital distribution.
Ease of use, relative low price and increased access to broadband has helped
drive the phenomenal growth of MP3 players.
Full-length music downloads on mobile phones have not taken off so quickly -
held back by technical challenges as well as issues over music availability.
But the mobile music industry is confident that the days of dedicated MP3
players are numbered.
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