At 3GSM yesterday, Nokia and Microsoft announced plans with Loudeye to collaborate so that consumers can enjoy digital music purchased from Windows Media Player's digital media mall (eg. Nokia's Mobile Music Service, MSN, Napster) on Nokia handsets:

This collaboration includes support for Windows Media(R) Audio, Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) 10 and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) on music oriented Nokia handsets, and including support for Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Digital Rights Management and the MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) family of codecs in Windows Media Player via a plug-in.

The mobile music service from Nokia and Loudeye is based on the OMA DRM and MPEG AAC standards and enables a wireless operator's customers to search, listen, download and pay for music using an operator branded music application on their mobile device. Windows Media Player is used for the PC component of the music solution, and wireless operators will be able to brand their music service when it is integrated into the Windows Media Player.

Complete release is here. In other news, Motorola is adding Windows Media Audio and Video support to the new E1060 due out in Q4 2005. No note on OS at this time. In other news, Nokia also licensed the ActiveSync protocol for syncing with Exchange servers (a key feature that Windows Mobile Smartphones have today).