The battle between BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple became a whole lot more interesting with the announcement that RIM is to start exploring the world of legal music downloads. Apple already makes billions with music downloads through iTunes — and now Puretracks, an online music store, will start selling legal music downloads to users of BlackBerry devices.

The wireless music download service is expected to be ready in April. As well as having one of the coolest gadgets on the market, BlackBerry users will now have a world of music downloads open to them.

Compressed DRM-free AAC/AAC+ file will be made available, although there has been no announcement as to how much these legal music downloads will cost users. The Puretracks Mobile music service has been developed specifically for BlackBerry.

Although the music downloads will be of a lower quality than those offered by iTunes, this is big news in the mobile download industry. The smaller files will be relatively fast to download.

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