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Wireless Music System With Fidelity and Features

Sprint Nextel has just launched its first attempt over-the-air music download service. But the offering is far from ideal, with prices of more than double those of iTunes.

About digital lifestyle trends, mobile media and the continual merging of electronic devices. But also M for mososo, music, multilingual, multicultural and sometimes something about myself.

After last week’s US launch the Motorola ROKR E1 device has become the first mobile phone equipped with Apple iTunes technology.

Mobile phone operators need to suspend their fantasies of becoming pay-per-song providers if the wireless music industry is to take off Daniel Schulman, the head of Virgin Mobile USA said. As mobile operators look to sell mobile phones with digital music players consumers should be able to freely move songs from their personal computers to these phones, he said in an interview with Reuters late last week. "I believe that ignoring the PC as an integral part of what at least the youth market accepts as its music experience is the wrong thing to do," said Schulman, the chief executive of Virgin Mobile USA, a venture of Sprint and Virgin.