Launch Date Of Nokia’s Comes With Music Along With Handsets Finally Announced
Nokia’s Comes With Music, which the company had been creating hype for since 
last year, has finally been set to be launched along with the first compatible handsets. From 16th October onwards, this service, which allows the users to download unlimited music will come into action on a small handful of models, both old and new, in the UK. The service will arrive in US and other countries by the early 2009.
Last year, Nokia had informed about Comes With Music with the aim to increase the handsets sales and also to try its hands at the mobile media realm, a field where company was had been unsuccessful in the past.
The users will get the offer of one year by Comes With Music, in which the users will get unlimited access to music store booming with over 5 million tracks from all four major labels and additionally from indies through publishers like The Beggars Group and The Orchard. Of course one will have to buy a compatible Nokia handset too to avail all this.
A major part of past year was spent by the company in finishing up the negotiations with Sony BMG and EMI. As of now, all the four majors are all set and ready for the debut of Comes With Music in the mid of this month.
Through the handset or a Window desktop client, the tracks can be downloaded. The songs will continue to work even after the one-year subscription plans runs out, in spite the fact that they have been protected with DRM.
The debut launch of Comes With Music in the UK will see an exclusive Comes With Music edition of its Nokia 5310 XpressMusic candy bar handset. The set will carry a price tag of 180 Pounds that also includes a coupon in its box for activating the Comes With Music service. There are also some other Comes With Music handsets that includes 5800 XpressMusic iPhone competitor and an 8GBversion of the N95. All these sets will be launched at the end of this year or early 2009.
The high competition in the mobile industry has led to launching of various new services by the mobile companies. Even Sony Ericsson, OmniFone, and Orange, are launching similar services in order to attract more and more customers.
