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Nokia Comes With Music: Thanks For The Tracks, Now Give Us A Real Mobile Experience

There’s no denying customers get quite a gift with Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) 12 months of unlimited downloads, which launched in the UK four days ago - but unnecessary complexity and over-reliance on the desktop PC, at least from one of two debut handsets, make for a less-than-satisfactory, less-than-mobile offering.

The XpressMusic 5310 is no smartphone; in every way the same mass-market S40 talker ‘n texter that was released a year ago (a basic candybar with three music keys), but with two important additions - a Comes With Music wrapper sheathed hastily around the standard box and an enclosed voucher bearing an activation PIN that, when redeemed in the Nokia Music Store, which already existed, renders downloads from there free for a year. Full detail on mocoNews.net...

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Oct 20, 2008 2:26 PM ET

Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, comes with music, nokia

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Oct 21, 2008 11:36 AM

This is inaccurate:  “One area the 5310 trumps iPod - you can create playlists right on the handset; suddenly, tracklist selection is something that can happen out on the town rather than something that must be prepared in advance on the desktop before a sync.”  You can create “on the go” playlists on the iPod.  Feature has been there for years.

morpheusdiblanco

Oct 21, 2008 11:52 AM

@morpheusdiblanco: That’s a feature almost no-one knows about and it’s still less satisfactory than the phone implementation… you can’t name playlists or reorder tracks, for example.

Robert Andrews

Oct 21, 2008 2:39 PM

no one knows about it? what are you nuts?  everybody knows about it. Users have been able to create multiple playlists “on-the-go” with all iPods for several years now.  The only thing you can’t do is rename them. The nice part is once you re-sync your iPod to iTunes, the new playlists show up and you can rename them and save them there.

Still, this is a good article on Nokia’s music service, but it sounds like its clearly lacking in ease of use.  It is really hard to beat Apple for making it so simple to buy and play music.

david

Oct 21, 2008 3:23 PM

not bad but does nokia let you placeshift your music and name your own price like didiom?

Oleg

Oct 31, 2008 8:00 AM

The first “all you can eat” music download service that lets users copy tracks to any device with no strings attached has launched in the UK today. Unlike Nokia Comes With Music, the Datz Music Lounge is all in MP3 and therefore doesn’t tie you up with a particular device. Get access to over 1.4 million tracks which will play on your iPod and unlike other services once downloaded the tracks are yours to keep forever, all for a 12 month contract costing a one off free of £99.99. findout more at datzmusiclounge.com

ki

Nov 3, 2008 5:40 AM

N95 8GB can register for Comes With Music without a PC, just do it in the Music Store - click on Join Comes With Music enter username etc and PIN -good to go

Timoog

Jun 18, 2009 2:03 AM

You cannot find anyone except Nokia to delivering best Music

http://www.perceptionsystem.com/

Shoun White

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