While iTunes phone's saga is still unknown, it will be good to know buying music track from mobile phone in Japan is well developed. Vodafone K.K. announces today that on 1 September 2005 it launched a new Music Search service on its mobile internet service Vodafone live!, so customers can find Chaku-Uta music tracks faster and with greater ease.

For the price of communication charges alone, the Music Search service lets customers search music track content by artist name. After inputting the artis's name in either kanji, hiragana, alphabetical letters or numbers, Vodafone live! official artist song content is searched according to a given keyword and links to artist information pages are displayed.

Artist information pages give a list of content sites that offer the artist's tracks so customers can quickly download the tracks they want, and obtain related information on live performances and upcoming events. Content is searched according to the music tracks that can be downloaded by a customer's Vodafone K.K. handset.