Napster To Go invades AT&T Wireless cellphone

Music subscription service Napster announced today they had inked a deal with AT&T Wireless to make the Napster To Go portable music service available to owners of the cellular provider's new Audiovox SMT 5600 Smartphone. The service, which will cost $14.95/month, will allow users to download an unlimited number of full length songs directly to the SMT5600. The catch? Since the service uses Windows Media Player 10 Digital Rights Management, songs cannot be shared and if the owner of the phone stops subscribing to the service, the songs become unlistenable.

The SMT5600 is also capable of storing and playing songs purchased and downloaded a la carte from Napster.

The phone itself, which runs on Microsoft Windows Moble 2003 software for Smartphones, has 28.5MB of internal flash memory. This is enough to hold about six songs. There is also an expansion option to add miniSD memory chips, currently offering up to 256MB of space, which can hold up to four additional hours of music.