Apple and the music labels sure haggled for a long time over making the iTunes Store DRM-free. Both sides won some, lost some : Apple had to concede to variable pricing, and the labels had to consent to DRM free, plus giving Apple to ability to offer song downloads directly to iPhones from cellular networks (3G and EDGE) instead of just WiFi.

iTunes on iPhone DRM-free

I tested this out on my 2G EDGE iPhone today. I can confirm it works. My DRM-free iTunes Plus purchase (256 kbps, in AAC format) was around 7MB in size and took just a few minutes to download. If you must know, the song was Nowhere to Run by The Commitments.

If you wait till April, all songs will be DRM-free at the iTunes Store, but you’ll be facing variable pricing, it could be as low as 69 cents or as high as $1.29.

iTunes is back in the game for mobile music. The iTunes Store on the iPhone is now a credible competitor to the Amazon MP3 store, which is also DRM-free and available on Android phones.

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