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We have been talking a lot about the iPhone’s cellular capabilities lately, but let’s not forget the music features of the iPhone! After all, it’s also an iPod.

Talking about music, Apple would apparently release the completely DRM-Free EMI catalog this week. According to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores. The seeming delay for introducing the new tier of content has been primarily attributed to a desire to offer the entire catalog at once in the unprotected format rather than a gradual rollout. The companies’ technicians are simply in the later stages of encoding and hosting the files before they go live, the contact says.

Being able to buy music from iTunes for the iPhone and not being caught with DRM’s hassles is a nice thing. But even more interesting, we should see the complete Paul McCartney’s catalog on iTunes at the same time. The ex-Beatles music library has been released on other online stores last week, including the Zune marketplace. Let’s hope we can bring DRM Free music to the iPhone soon. Yes, I know they can wait a few weeks and it won’t matter for iPhone fans!

via Electronista