Portable music's future could be in your phone

According to the wireless phone industry, the days of the stand-alone digital music device are numbered. In coming years, they say, more music lovers will listen to music on their cellphones. USA Today reports.

"There's always going to be room for stand-alone music players, but the sheer numbers favor handsets," says Eli Harari, CEO of SanDisk, which makes memory cards for cameras, phones and music players.

According to researcher Strategy Analytics, 1 billion cellphones will be sold worldwide this year. Twenty-five percent of them — or 250 million — will be handsets that can also play music. The firm sees shipments of music phones growing to 800 million by 2009."

emily | 9:54 PM | Music Phones |
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