Nokia launches “Comes with Music” program; Wants to sell handsets bundled with music service
By Dusan Belic on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 10:43 AM PST In Announcements, Nokia, Services
In order the grab a piece of the music downloads market currently dominated by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iTunes, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is launching an innovative “Comes with Music” program. The idea is bundle handsets with a year of unlimited access to “millions of tracks” from (at least initially) Universal Music Group International. And while it’s hard to find any good words about Nokia’s “partner in crime,” we salute the Finish giant for taking initiative and trying to push the music industry one step forward towards adopting the new ways of doing business. Yap, the DRM will be included, but what the hack — I guess that will still be the way how RIAA’s doing business.
Back to Nokia. They’ve managed to pull such deal from Universal to allow its customers to keep the music even when they cancel the service. And speaking of the service, you’ll probably want to know the launch date – it’s “mid 2008,” no exact date is provided.
Great and all with the music, hopefully they’ll start providing some decent earphones with their handsets?
Sony Ericsson already do with the Walkman range of phones, Nokia did with the N91, but apart from that all there have been are cheap rubbish ones.
Adonis, you have som goodies here http://www.nokia.com/nonstopliving
and http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1172945
They have come out with stunning good musicphones like 5310Xpresmusic,5610, N81,N82,N95 and more.It the last test Nokia have gone past walkman with huge step.
Yeah great with all this miliions tracks you get from Comes with music.
Rock On
Awsome good Nokia, this be my next device. I heard launch of “Comes with music” starts on mars 2008