JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: A new way to listen to your favorite music will soon be available, via your cell phone. CNN's Peter Humi has more on this emerging technology.</s>PETER HUMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you usually associate music and the telephone with being on hold, think again. Wireless access protocol, or WAP for short, already allows subscribers to check e-mail and receive news, weather, and travel updates, all from their cellular telephone dialed into the Net. Now Gilles Babinet of Musiwap is hoping to make the humble phone a music machine.</s>GILLES BABINET, CEO, MUSIWAP: In the future, we will change the way we listen to music. You will stop to buy CDs and to listen to the radio.</s>HUMI: Call on your cell phone and decide which track from which artist to listen to. No commercials, no hi-fi, and in theory, no restrictions on where you can listen. The cost: Well, Musiwap isn't saying, but the company points out the average U.S. family now spends $20 a month on music. Musiwap already provides a basic music service. But it can't compete for quality with CDs or even AM radio. But Musiwap says it's just a matter of time and new technology, which will allow far greater audio quality via cell phone and eventually video reception, too. Field testing of the new phone is due to start this fall. (on camera): And in case you're wondering, no, you won't have to walk about with your phone pressed against your ear. Walkman-style headphones are part of the package. Peter Humi, CNN, Paris.
Cell Phones Will Soon Become Music Machines