Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service has been available for a long time now, but it’s only recently that we’ve seen Nokia put step on the gas pedal and seriously try to propel it, with the launch of the service in many Arab countries, China, and India. Now they’re launching a new competition / campaign weirdly [...]
Nokia Betalabs have been busy lately with releases such as the Nokia Image Exchange Beta For S60v5 and recently released Nokia Image Space. Newest in their portfolio of applications are Gig Finder. With this application the user can buy tickets to concerts of their favorite artist as well as getting directions to where the event [...]
This morning, Nokia announced yet another touchscreen smartphone, which should be rather exciting, no? Unfortunately, it’s not. It’s the Nokia 5235 Comes With Music, which, as you guessed, comes with a voucher for unlimited music downloads for either 12 or 18 months from the Nokia Music Store (which hasn’t launched in the U.S. yet, by [...]
Today, Amazon unveiled its Amazon Mobile Payments program, which makes it possible for consumers to use their Amazon.com account to make purchases on mobile websites and applications. The service includes a set of APIs, to allow developers easy access to integrate the Amazon Mobile Payments System into their applications and services. What does this have [...]
In a move that pretty much surprises no one, Nokia has apparently pushed back the launch date for the U.S. version of its Nokia Music Store. According to Forbes.com, given a number of factors, Nokia, who previously planned to launch its Nokia Music Store in the U.S. sometime in 2009 has apparently pushed that back [...]
Someone must have shed light over at Orange as they now are finally offering music without DRM. Coming in late into this game they have now been given the green flag by both Universal Music and EMI Music to do so. Along with other independent labels they are now offering songs from 79p, trying to [...]
2 years ago, at the Nokia: Go Play event in London, Nokia announced the Nokia Music Store, along with the Nokia Music PC Client and a few other things. At that event, during a demo of the Nokia Music PC Client (which, btw, wouldn’t be released to the public for another 10 months), the person [...]
From my time with them, I really feel like the European carrier, Orange, is a different breed of operator, not overly concerned with keeping its customers locked down in every way. They just seem to ‘get’ that people like choices. Hence, it’s no surprise to me that Orange and Nokia just announced that the carrier [...]
One of the major complaints about the Nokia Music Store and the accompanying Comes With Music initiative is that it comes with DRM. DRM is added to digital files to restrict the number of places you can playback that file. For Comes With Music, users are allowed unlimited downloads for 12 or 18 months, provided [...]
