T-Mobile has launched a jukebox service for it mobile phone users.

Mobile Jukebox gives T-Mobile customers the chance to choose and download from 500,000 music tracks straight to a mobile and PC via their phone.

Backed by record labels such as Universal, BMG, EMI and Warner Music International, as well as independent labels such as V2 and Beggars Banquet, the service will work on all the operators 'Web and Walk' activated phones, and the Nokia 5300 and Sony Ericksson 880i. These phones are available on both contract and pay-as-you-go from £50.

Tracks on the service are priced at £1, which is 25p more expensive than the average download.

However, T-Mobile Mobile has justified this by claiming that its customers will get two or 'dual downloads' for this price.

This will include a compressed version for a fast download to the mobile phone in an AAC format – the format most commonly for iPod files, and another WMA version sent to customer's email address. With this version users will be able to store, burn the CD to a disk or download the track onto an MP3 player.

T-Mobile also stores all its customers downloads to its "My Music" section on the T-mobile site meaning people who lose their mobiles can log in and pick up their downloads.

The service is available now with T-Mobile offering every new customer with a Mobile Jukebox handset any five tracks free throughout July.