// Pocket Picks //

Following this morning’s announcement that Nokia’s Comes With Music service will launch in the UK next month with a special edition 5310 XpressMusic handset, retail partner Carphone Warehouse has made its own press release announcement, which gives some more details.

Such as? Comes With Music will be available on the white version of the 5310, although the phone itself will be available in seven other colours too (although seemingly without Comes With Music on those). No price yet, but Carphone’s press office tells me it should be confirmed “mid-September”.

You’ll need to register your PC and 5310 before you can download music, and you can only log in to Comes With Music on one of those devices at a time. The music downloads are free, as promised, but according to Carphone the “end user would still be responsible for any data charges involved”.

On a prepay tariff, that’s not good news - plus the 5310 isn’t 3G - so it seems downloading tracks to your PC then synching them over is the only realistic way to make use of the service on this particular phone/deal.

Some more small print: “At the time of launch downloading of the tracks is not restricted unless usage is not considered to be for personal usage or user is using any unsupported applications or connection methods”. Oh, and Nokia will restrict the number of downloads individual users are allowed to make “if average usage for all users reached predefined levels”.

What those predefined levels are, how your download limit will be restricted, and indeed what counts as an unsupported connection method remains to be seen.

Some more info. If you buy a new PC during your initial 12 months, you can transfer your Comes With Music collection to it, but only once every in three months.

What happens at the end of that year? You get to keep everything you’ve already downloaded to your phone and PC, and if you buy a new compatible (their italics) Nokia handset or PC, you can re-download or synchronise all the tunes you downloaded during that first year - even if you don’t continue your Comes With Music subscription.

What’s more, if you cancel Comes With Music after 12 months, this ‘re-downloading when you buy a new mobile/PC’ deal lasts for a further two years. Once that two years is up, your tunes will still work, but you won’t be able to re-download them again.

Got all that?