There’s an interesting article in the New York Times on Apple’s plans to offer more kinds of music content for iPhone, when the 3G version goes on sale in June. This includes a wider selection of ringtones, but also possibly ringback tones, allowing iPhone users to regale callers with their latest hip tune while waiting for them to answer. Meanwhile, Apple is also reportedly mulling selling full-track downloads over the air, allowing people to download them using their phone’s 3G connection. Currently, you can buy songs using the iTunes application on your iPhone, but you have to be connected to a Wi-Fi network to download them. But here’s the really interesting part: apparently major label Universal Music Group wants Apple to consider some kind of music subscription bundled into iPhone, following the model of Nokia’s Comes With Music. So, you’d buy your iPhone, and get the right to download unlimited amounts of music for no extra cost for a set period of time. However, it seems negotiations on this front aren’t far enough along for that to be announced in June too.
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Nokia has signed up a second major label for its Comes With Music scheme, which launches later this year. The news was announced at an event in London.
This means Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Pink, Justin Timberlake and more artists will be available as part of the service.
Sony BMG joins Universal Music Group in partnership with Nokia, although there was no news on how close the other majors - Warner Music Group and EMI - are to signing, let alone the thousands of independent labels.
If you need a reminder about Comes With Music, the theory is simple: buy a Comes With Music phone, and you’ll get unlimited access to “millions” of tracks, for no extra cost, for 12 months.
And at the end of that year, you can keep everything you’ve downloaded (you’ll have to pay again to keep downloading new stuff though).
Keen on music? You’ll be interested in Nokia’s upcoming Comes With Music scheme then. Due to launch later this year, it involves getting unlimited music bundled in with the price of a handset.
As many tunes as you want for no extra cost, with the caveat that they can only be from record labels who’ve signed a deal with Nokia.
So far, only one has: Universal Music Group. And according to a story in the Hollywood Reporter, Nokia is paying the label $35 for every Comes With Music handset that it sells. Although another report has since revised that figure to $33.50.
Anyway, the point is that music industry blog Coolfer has done some sums, using that info to calculate how much Nokia might pay if it signs similar deals with the other record labels, based on their market share. And the answer is…
Continue reading ‘Comes With Music could add £58.43 to the price of a Nokia handset’
This week Nokia held its annual Nokia World Conference in Amsterdam, outlining its 2008 plans. The key themes in CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo’s keynote address were; the ‘convergence of mobility and the internet’; and the need for environmental sustainability.
Ovi
Central to Nokia’s ‘vision’ of ‘convergence of mobility’, is the merging of individual services such as mobile applications and mobile internet services, into a kind of joined-up suite of integrated services.
The aim of Ovi is to link different services across mobile, online and PC platforms – for instance linking Nokia Maps to Nokia Photos, to enable people to take pictures of/at a location, share them with friends on their mobiles and online.
Ovi launched this year with Nokia Maps, Nokia Music Store and this month, N-Gage games service. Nokia Intellisyc Email was also launched as well as web communities (such as Widsets and MOSH), and app downloads via the new Nokia Download! service available on new NSeries devices.
A web portal to Ovi is being launched next year, while an on-device version is already available on the 8GB versions of the Nokia N81 and N95, with new NSeries devices getting Ovi in 2008.
Read on for more of the highlights of the 2007 Nokia World Conference….
Continue reading ‘Nokia World 2007 Round-up:’
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