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In order the grab a piece of the music downloads market currently dominated by Apple’s iTunes, Nokia 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.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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