Sprint has announced details of a music store its mobile service subscribers can access from their handsets to pay for mp3 files which download directly to their phones. Their database is comprised of 250,000 songs from all four major labels. Charging $2.50 a song, Sprint users will get two separate files, one low-quality version tailored for low-data capacity cell phone storage and a higher bitrate file which will sound better on traditional audio equipment. From the press release:

"Sprint Power Vision phones come packaged with a removable memory card that is inserted in the phone to buy, download and play full songs from the Sprint Music Store. Using an optional 1GB removable memory card, customers have the ability to store up to 1000 songs purchased from the Sprint Music Store."

Read the press release.

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