New Industry Study Indicates Music Features Drive Mobile Phone Market

A recently released report reveals that worldwide shipments of music phones exceeded a billion units in 2007, outnumbering shipments of personal media players like the iPod by almost 300 million. The study also predicts that by 2011 over half of all the 941 million phones shipped will be considered music phones. The authors of the report define a music phone as a phone with two features: (1) Music codec functionality: MP3, AAC, etc....

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Is Apple Considering An iTunes Subscription Model With Premium Devices?

The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is considering an all-you-can-eat subscription music model, where users would receive free access to the entire iTunes library “in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.” What exactly does paying a premium for the devices mean? Well according to the Financial Time’s sources, this would mean that Apple would give music labels a kickback from the sale...

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