Nokia’s Comes With Music will launch in the UK next month, before spreading to the Continent and to Asia next year.
Comes With Music, you may remember, is Nokia’s scheme to include music from the top record companies (less EMI, for now) with its cellphones, slowly getting the company into the Apple-dominated music business.
Nokia has not given any specific price points for Comes With Music Cellphones, but said that pay-as-you-go consumers had indicated to it in surveys that they’d be willing to pay somewhere between £100-£300 ($178-$535; wow, the dollar has improved since the last time I checked) for such a cellphone. Yeah, not me. A POS MP3 player, loaded with sweet, sweet V0s, can be had for like ~$0 these days. Yes, zero dollars. Get a knock-off one, it’s not like the iPod sounds that good or anything.
The first cellphone that will work Come(s) With Music is the Nokia 5310.
“wow, the dollar has improved since the last time I checked”
Yea being from the UK you could get bargins from the USA, getting more expensive now though
If there is pay to play aspect to this then the DRM will need to be air tight meanwhile the rest of the industry is heading in the other direction. I like the idea of pre-loaded content, but it only works if you can play the content right out of the box. Using OTA to unlock tracks will not be a good user experience. I do like that Nokia is continuing to seek out direct relationships with the consumer. For this kind of product, they’d be better off with a good co-partner from the music industry to lend them some credibility and help to develop the product.
Even though still a market leader, I think somehow Nokia is loosing its edge. Though all their phones have tons of features, they are expensive, they don’t have good tie ups with service providers so you don’t even come to know of the models of their phones.
Nokia should act fast and re-brand themselves around a device – that has a seamless integration of voice, mobile-web – make music, apps easy to download and configure, make their devices more visible.
oha ,Maybe The Apple will take the place of the cellphone maket leader !
woow Cooll Thanks Budy
nokia music apps and inovation will strengthen it’s advantage in the cellphone market. all people love music, if it can increase much more music apps, it will be better
The first “all you can eat” music download service that lets users copy tracks to any device with no strings attached has launched in the UK today. Unlike Nokia Comes With Music, the Datz Music Lounge is all in MP3 and therefore doesn’t tie you up with a particular device. Get access to over 1.4 million tracks which will play on your iPod and unlike other services once downloaded the tracks are yours to keep forever, all for a 12 month contract costing a one off free of £99.99. findout more at datzmusiclounge.com