Nokia has announced that they will start offering their Comes with Music service next month in the UK and will have an official launching on October 2. After the debut in the UK, the rest of Europe and Asia will follow thereafter.
If you still remember this service we reported a while back, the Comes with Music gives Nokia users free music downloads along with their phone. Now, it’s more concrete and specific. UK Carphone Warehouse will sell Comes with Music Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phones that include a year of unlimited music downloads.
Too good to be true? Well, sort of.
The service isn’t actually free and the cost is already included in the price of the phone which makes it more expensive than an ordinary Nokia 5310. As for the music downloads, yeah, it’s unlimited alright, but the DRM limits playback to the phone only so say goodbye to music sharing. However, once your subscription expires, you’ll still be able to play the tracks you’ve downloaded to your phone.
Locally, the new Nokia 5320 and 5220 XpressMusic phones come bundled with vouchers that allow you to download 100 free music tracks from a Nokia website. I don’t know if its also comes with DRM, but it’s a nice inclusion nonetheless. It could be a prelude to the whole service before it’s launched in the Philippines, or it could be its local counterpart.
Whichever the case maybe, it’s a nice way of marketing a particular product to a target audience. I’m not happy with the DRM, but hey, if that’s as good as it gets, I’ll take it.
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