Nokia to offer unlimited music downloads... for free Most mobiles have a music player nowadays, but most don’t come with a year's free and unlimited music downloads. Step up Nokia, which has just outlined just such a scheme, dubbed 'Comes With Music'. The basic premise: buy a Nokia Music Store-compatible handset and you’ll be rewarded with access to an online library of tracks …
Hmmmm, free music for a year?? Then what?? You have to subscribe to keep the music. And if you replace your cell phone every year, you OK to trot, and if not?????
Universal is just dying to kill Apple's iTunes store and why, I will never know!!! The future looks bad for Music companies in their present state. How and when they will change is anyone's guesss.
But I think they will have to change or die. JMHO. :-)
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I bet there is an asterix in the T&C somewhere.
Unlimited* downloads
You can chose from a vast library of poptastic tripe which you probably own anyway on CD when it was 1st written by a real artist way back in the dim and distant 90's.
You dont get jack fro free. Except the wonderful reg that is.
* 1 per month
Cynical aren't we?
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1172937
And I quote "Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music without having to worry about it disappearing when their subscription is over."
Nope, I have no idea how they're going to make any money out of this either!
"have free music for a year"
To be honest this is better than "don't have free music for a year".
See the thing about it being free is, if you don't want it.. don't use it and if you do want it.. it does what it says on the tin, gives you access to free music. It's really not possible to knock it, if you don't like it, don't buy a Nokia Comes With Music handset or don't use the service.
On a more personal note, I hate music on phones. More to the point I have the chavs on the bus who play their music aloud and think giving them more free music to pollute my airwaves is a bad idea. I like music on my non-phone devices but then I'm probably old fashioned.
"Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music without having to worry about it disappearing when their subscription is over."
The music is "free" but the service is a subscription model. Its the same old Napster and Amazon type thing, but they're throwing in a free year to get people onboard first it seems.
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