Thursday, 4 September 2008

Nokia 'Comes With Music' first in the UK

Nokia has decided to debut its new music service ‘Comes with Music’ to consumers in Britain.

Introducing it as a “revolutionary way for people to discover and enjoy music,” Comes With Music gives users a year of unlimited, free subscription access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog with the ability to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over.

Nokia is partnering up with Carphone Warehouse will be the exclusive UK pre-pay channel offering the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 'Comes With Music' edition.

Consumers who buy the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 'Comes With Music' edition will have freedom to find and listen to music from a diverse catalog, including international and UK artists.

The mobile devices are expected to ship next month according to reports.

Simon Ainslie, Nokia UK Managing Director, said: "Comes With Music is the most compelling digital music offer ever introduced to the UK. You get a fantastic Nokia device with unlimited access for a year to a huge catalog of music. We're thrilled to be working with Carphone Warehouse to bring Comes With Music to the UK."

‘Comes With Music’ is a small part of Nokia's overall Internet services strategy, Ovi, announced last December.

Ovi- which means door in Finnish- is Nokia’s umbrella concept of Internet services that includes buying music, sharing photos and accessing third party services such as Yahoo’s Flickr photo site.

‘Comes With Music’ will compete head-on with Apple’s iTunes.