The MP3 player from Ericsson lets you listen to near CD-quality audio through the stereo earpieces between calls. Ericsson recently launched a plug-in FM radio for mobile phones, which is already on the market.

Ericsson has introduced it as a commercial product, which will be on the market mid 2000.

Incoming calls are channeled through both earpieces and the cord features a microphone to speak into and a button to answer calls with. If you listen to the music when you receive an incoming call, the sound from the player will automatically be muted and you may answer the call with the button on the cord.

The MP3 Handsfree is completely controlled and powered by the mobile phone - no extra batteries or space consuming buttons or display.

The Ericsson MP3 Handsfree is compatible with most of Ericsson's 3-volt phones.

The Ericsson MP3 Handsfree comes complete with a standard multimedia card where you can store approximately 30 minutes of your favorite music, and stereo earphones with portable handsfree functionality.

An accompanying CD-ROM gives you all the software necessary to convert non-MP3 audio files to MP3 format.

You can copy tracks from your favorite CDs via a PC on to the multimedia card as well as organize audio files in your own personal music database.