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Saturday, 09 July 2005 |
Music
to your cell phone
CNET News.com -
USA
The cell phone has acquired a host of new features in recent years, from
text messaging to video. Now cell phone makers and wireless operators are
shifting their attention to music, taking a swipe at the iPod and other
stand-alone music players.
With high-speed cellular networks soon to be widely available, wireless
operators are exploring new ways to deliver not only over-the-air music
downloads, but also music videos, streaming and other new products tied to
music.
While it remains to be seen whether consumers will take to buying music on cell
phones, a variety of cell phone models with built-in MP3 players have reached
the market or are about to be released. These phones still revolve around the PC
for most of their music content, and compared with music players like the iPod
from Apple Computer, most have smaller capacities for storing music files and
fewer music features. But they also provide a new set of options for putting
collections of music on devices that many people have to carry anyway.
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