A recent press release from AT&T announces that the service provider has entered into an agreement with Napster to distribute music through mobiles, including smartphones and PDAs. Users can use their handhelds to browse through an online music store, and download songs to their gadgets for a fee.

From their initial popularity as the first widespread file-sharing app, through suffering lawsuits from copyright owners, to getting bought by Roxio during a bankruptcy auction, turns out Napster's still alive! Let's see if AT&T and Napster can acquire the rights to a wide number of songs, and if their customers will be willing to pay $1.99 per song ($7.49 for five). Maybe matchbox twenty's Exile on Mainstream, the musical content that will kick off the service, may attract some eyeballs?

Who's willing to bet a few bucks that you can't transfer the songs out of your phone after you download them, or that they're only available in a proprietary format that won't work in other media players?