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Nokia Music Store now available free on The Cloud wi-fi

Published by Chris Leonard on December 11, 2007 in Biz & Tech, Mobile internet and Music. 0 Comments

02_music_store_lowres.jpgNokia Music Store customers can get free access to it over wi-fi after it signed a deal with The Cloud. The deal gives free access through The Cloud’s 7,500 wi-fi hotspots.

The deal means that Music Store customers with wi-fi handsets and laptops can connect to The Cloud and browse the millions of tracks on Music Store without having to pay their operators’ browsing rates.

Aside from the obvious financial benefits, customers will also get faster, more reliable connections than on operators’ 3G networks, meaning quick and easy downloads.

The Cloud’s wi-fi hotspots are in all sorts of places such as McDonalds, Coffee Republic, airports and the Square Mile in London. It’s already done deals to offer free wi-fi access to iPhone users and O2 and Orange customers. If it keeps growing at this rate, soon no-one will ever need pay for wireless broadband internet again…





Nokia Beta Labs latest: Download! ad-funded downloading client

Published by Fraser MacInnes on November 20, 2007 in Applications. 1 Comment

ad_download.jpgNokia has opened the doors of its Beta Labs once more and before any of the tireless boffins inside could even feel a draft, a new and interesting application flew out into the world for us all to poke with sticks.

It’s called Download! (surely the first thing to be updated here should be the slightly unimaginative name, you wouldn’t call a new Nokia music store, Nokia Music Store, oh wait!) and essentially it is a client that through the somewhat amorphous currency of banner ads can pay for and deliver content to your phone.

So to say it more simply it is an ad-funded download client. The app is available now and all of the content that can be accessed via it is currently free. Worth checking out then.

(Via Nokia Beta Labs)



Nokia users first to get their hands on Kylie

Published by Chris Leonard on November 19, 2007 in Music. 0 Comments

kylie-minogue-15.jpgWell, they wish. In reality, Nokia’s bagged the exclusive download rights to Kylie’s eagerly-anticipated new album ‘X’. It will be exclusively available to download from Nokia Music Store from November 21 - five days ahead of its general release.

It’s the first time a Kylie album - there have been 10 over three decades (now that makes us feel old!) - has been made available digitally prior to general release

It’s not Music Store’s first exclusive though. Already Girls Aloud (’Tangled Up’), The Killers (’Sawdust’) and Andrea Bocelli (’Vivere’) have all released exclusive through the store.

Nokia Music Store customers will be able to get hold of the album for £8. If you’ve got a Nokia N81 or N95 8GB, you can sign up and will able to get hold of Kylie’s latest release here.



Nokia’s N82 cameraphone to beat all cameraphones finally unveiled

Published by Chris Leonard on November 15, 2007 in Handsets. 1 Comment

n82front.jpgAfter lots of hype and feverish anticipation, Nokia’s N82 has finally had its official unveiling.

It’s being heralded as one of the best ‘if not the best’ cameraphones around, boasting a five-megapixel camera, and the now standard NSeries Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics.

It features pretty much the same features as the N95 and others, being a ‘multimedia computer’, but also a ‘navigation device’ courtesy of built-in A-GPS and Nokia Maps.

The N82’s big selling point is the camera. As well as the features above, it has fast camera activation (around two seconds), autofocus (with an assist lamp), quick reloads between shots and ‘DVD-like’ video capture. Hi-res pics and video can then be saved on the 2GB microSD card that’ll come as standard.

If you want to share content, Nokia’s included wi-fi connectivity and one-click uploads to file sharing sites, and the ability to connect the N82 to hi-res TVs.

And this isn’t all - the N82 also has Nokia’s new content-driven 3D multimedia menu, plus Nokia’s Ovi mobile internet services (Nokia Music Store, N-Gage games (well, from December anyway) and Nokia Maps).

It might not look as sexy as the iPhone or even the N95 8GB, but one thing’s for sure, the N82 certainly looks like it’s going to live up to all the hype.



Microsoft to buy Musiwave

Published by Stuart Houghton on November 13, 2007 in Biz & Tech and Music. 0 Comments

Musiwave_RVB.gifMicrosoft has entered into talks with French mobile music specialist Musiwave with a view to purchasing the company.

Musiwave currently provides mobile music services for several operators including Orange, and Microsoft may be planning to use its software to set up on-demand music downloads and streaming similar to Nokia’s Music Store for use with both Windows Mobile and Microsoft’s iPod competitor, the Zune.

Musiwave has relationships with music labels and content providers, which should mean Microsoft get a boost in those areas.

“Musiwave would bring key assets to us as we continue to bring our vision of Connected Entertainment to life,” said Microsoft’s J Allard, MS Corporate Vice President in charge of music

No financial details have been released as yet, but it will be interesting to see how Musiwave’s other clients react to this.



Hands on: Vodafone MusicStation versus Nokia Music Store

Published by Stuart Houghton on November 12, 2007 in Hands on and Music. 0 Comments

Nokia Music StoreThis month has seen the launch of two mobile music services, competing for the ears of the mobile-equipped music fan.

Nokia’s Music Store and Vodafone’s MusicStation both offer DRM-laden music downloads, on a per-track or per-album basis (Music Store) or by paying a fixed monthly fee for unlimited access to their music libraries (Both services).

The two services appear quite similar at first glance - how do they compare?
Continue reading ‘Hands on: Vodafone MusicStation versus Nokia Music Store’



Someone’s got their hands on a Nokia N82

Published by Chris Leonard on November 8, 2007 in Handsets. 0 Comments

11-7-07-n82_1.jpgThe N81 has only just gone on sale with the launch of the Nokia Music Store, and now pictures and feedback on a real-life N82 are already emerging on the web.

Although the N81 was launched with Nokia’s Music Store, the N82 is being pitched as a camera phone. But not just any camera phone, oh no, that would be too boring.

According to Symbian Freak, the N82 will be the first Nokia to feature XENON flash to go with its Carl Zeiss optic and five-megapixel camera.

But that’s not all. The N82 will also have 3G/wi-fi, Bluetooth, in-built GPS and a micro-USB port. Like all new NSeries devices, it’ll also feature the NGage games platform, and the Music Store (as seen on the N81 and N95 8GB).

One notable innovation is an auto screen rotation, but unlike the iPhone (which only rotates for certain applications), the N82 will rotate any time, any place no matter what you’re doing.

You can see more photos here.



Vodafone opens ‘Ovi’ to Nokia services on its handsets

Published by Chris Leonard on November 7, 2007 in Mobile internet and Music. 0 Comments

2006_Vod_Logo.jpgIn what must be a coup for Nokia, Vodafone has agreed to launch an integrated suite of combined Vodafone-Nokia Ovi services on handsets (’Ovi’ means ‘door’ in Finnish). The key is that Vodafone has agreed to carry a number of exclusive Nokia Ovi handsets.

The deal means that Vodafone subscribers will get faster access to Vodafone’s mobile internet services, as well as all of Nokia’s Ovi services. The handsets will have one-click access to the internet services.

As part of this, Vodafone and Nokia will offer direct access to both the operator’s music service and Nokia Music Store on all of Nokia’s 2008 handsets.

To see what Nokia’s Ovi is all about, go here.





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