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Moto to introduce PlaysForSure phones?

We were unclear before if Motorola's and Microsoft's WMA musicphone partnership was going to yield any PlaysForSure phones -- and we still are, truth be told -- but SlashPhone is reporting with some certainty that Moto handsets will be getting WMA with Windows Media DRM (aka PlaysForSure), as well as support for something called Media Transfer Protocol. Apparently with MTP, Windows Media Player will recognize Moto handsets and automagically sync your music over USB 2.0, not dissimilar from how your iPod syncs to iTunes (if that's your bag). They also claim Microsoft will begin streaming audio with WMA Pro over 3G in 2007, which would be interesting, but not nearly as interesting as getting Napster To Go or Rhapsody or YMU on our Moto musicphones, that's for sure.