New technology has been launched, which allows music to be downloaded to the iPod nano without the use of the PC.

The iLoad-C is a device that clamps onto an iPod nano connecting it to mobile phone networks.

Users can then download music from network music stores hence bypassing the need to use computers – handy when on the move and when no PCs are around.

The device, created by Wingspan will work with the T-Mobile music network service among others, and also has a WiFi wireless network capability.

The system will hit US retailers in the early summer and should retail for just over £100.

Meanwhile, Wingspan has also announced details of a product that can copy music from CDs onto an iPod without the use of a PC.

This coincides with the release of a gadget that will allow videos to be put on the iPod video from satellite TV boxes, again sidestepping the requirement of a computer.

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