Nokia’s UK “All You Can Eat” Music Handset Announced
By Chris McLellan on Sep 05, 2008 with Comments 1
Nokia today announced that the UK trial of it’s all-you-can-eat-for-a-year and-share-with-all-your-mates music service “Comes With Music” will be supported on the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handset.
This is a fairly low-end device that will retail significantly below the iPhone in the UK and will be launched in partnership exclusively via Carphone Warehouse’s 805 UK shop locations from December (in a move not unlike iPhone’s exclusive UK roll-out with O2 shops).
No news yet on a US or International roll out. No news on the premium that will be tacked onto the subscription for the music service.
What is news is that music from the service can be shared via a mobile and online social network. What’s also news is that this roll-out appears to be network-neutral (unlike the iPhone/O2 prison). What’s old hat is that the songs will carry DRM.
I liked the sound of this proposition until that last bit. So the US gets Amazon DRM-Free online, and we get all-you-can-munch music that’s encrypted to the you-know-what’s.
Who’s better off???
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Hi Chris,
I think the DRM issue may be down to labels demands and not necessarily Nokia’s choice so to speak…I could be wrong but that is my assumption.