Music hot topic at 3GSM

Feb 15 2005 - 01:57 PM ET | In The News

3GSM World Congress -- Music has been a major theme at this year's 3GSM conference:

• Sony Ericsson announced a line of Walkman phones will make their appearance soon.
• Nokia teamed up with Microsoft to assure that digital rights management (DRM) equipped media files will play on Nokia handsets.
• Motorola announced the E1060, its first handset with Apple iTunes built-in.

Many analysts have predicted that 2005 will be the year that mobile music breaks into the mainstream.