The Nokia Music Store has launched in plenty of countries throughout the world (though not the U.S., annoyingly), though its critics are quick to point out the DRM protection that is embedded in the songs, limiting the number of devices you can transfer your purchased tracks to. Previously, there were rumors that Nokia would be [...]
Last week at Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany, we had the opportunity to sit down with Liz Schimel, VP of Nokia Music, to ask a few pointed questions, specifically including Nokia’s lack of presence in the U.S. market in terms of music services. Schimel has some comments around the DRM-free question, as well, revealing [...]
Spotify is a music service in which you can stream music you want to listen to over the internet, unlike Nokia’s Comes With Music which is available for Symbian-powered handsets such as the X6. In Spotify, the music on their servers but users can access the music how often they want and when they want. [...]
A few weeks ago, I seriously tried to use the Nokia N97 as my sole MP3 player, and Nokia’s experience fell flat on its face. Yesterday, the Nokia Music PC Client was updated to v1.3, and I hastily clicked through to read the full changelog, hoping that somehow, someway, the team had added necessities such [...]
I spent the better part of yesterday fighting with .NET Framework installations, trying to get this Nokia Music PC Client to work. Others haven’t reported the issues that I had, so I’m sure it was my computer being annoying, though I reformatted a few weeks ago and reinstalled Windows XP, so I’m not sure what [...]
This is a piece of software that I’ve been looking forward to ever since I saw it demo’d at the Go Play event in London last year. The Nokia Music PC Client is a desktop application that allows you to manage your music and sync fully with your S60 powered handset (as well as any [...]
This morning Nokia announced that their Music Store is now available in Ireland, bringing the total country count up to 4, worldwide. The Nokia Music Store is integrated into the newest Nseries handsets such as the N95 8GB and N81 8GB, and offers the ability to purchase and download music directly on the handset over [...]
