Comes with Music sings on Nokia 5800, N96, N85, N79, 5320 and 5220 XpressMusic in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Asia – Singapore is the latest location to have its ears filled with unlimited music downloads courtesy of Comes With Music, debuting in Asia on the Nokia 5800, N96, N85, N79, 5320 and 5220 XpressMusic over the weekend.

Leaping from continent to continent, last week Comes With Music was announced for Australia with the Nokia 5800. But the Singaporean release sees five Comes With Music enabled handsets go on sale, including a couple of brand new colours. Read on to find out more.
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Comes With Music hit Australia on 20th March

SYDNEY, Australia – Nokia has just confirmed that the touchscreen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset will be will stepping foot on Australian soil on 20th March, hand-in-hand with Comes With Music.

Read on for full details on the song-stuffed offering that will be available Down Under. Plus, catch up on our videos on how to install Comes With Music, watch a walkthrough of Comes With Music and how to manage it via your desktop, and pour over our photo gallery of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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Comes With Music foundations laid for rest of Europe

GLOBAL – Comes With Music burst into the world screaming to the tune of millions of songs with unlimited downloads to keep, and is now maturing from a mildly misunderstood infant to a mature all-you-can-devour music download service in the UK. With this in mind Nokia has been working to cement rock solid foundations for rolling out Comes With Music across Europe, announcing new pan-European licensing deals with Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and CELAS/EMI Music Publishing.

Read on for more info on the Comes With Music roll-out and to get the full lowdown on what the service is all about.

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Best of 2008 in Services – Comes with Music

LONDON, England – Comes with Music is a brilliant idea. Is that because it suits my music consumption perfectly? Perhaps, but from what I can tell, the service isn’t even necessarily designed for people like me. Regardless, it’s significance here relates more to Nokia’s approach to new businesses. Rather than jumping on the bandwagon and following everyone else, it has taken a bold new step and that I think, one that has to be admired.

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Blowing away the fog surrounding Comes With Music

GLOBAL – A couple of weeks ago James put it out there that he didn’t (nor did I) get the marketing for Comes With Music in the UK, and felt it confused more than communicated what the service is all about and how it works.

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Do you know Comes With Music

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They couldn’t make it more confusing if they tried

LONDON, England – I’m at risk now of outing an unpopular opinion here, but I don’t get the marketing for Comes with Music. I like it, in that it’s original, quite clever and most definitely very cool. But, from a communication perspective I have a simple problem (or two, as it happens) in that it doesn’t really tell me what the service is, or what it’s supposed to do. After all, this is a service where, after you’ve bought a device, you get all-you-can-eat music without having to spend another penny.

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Comes With Music note-by-note video walkthrough

GLOBAL – Towards the tail-end of last week I posted a short piece about Comes With Music’s first steps in the UK, and since then I’ve chatted more about Nokia’s new music service with fellow Conversations writers James and Charlie, triggering some interesting debates (and arguments) that we’ll be exploring openly right here over the coming weeks.

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Comes with Music – first steps, fresh ground and future strides

UK – The birth of any new service is an intriguing and exciting prospect, and Comes With Music’s strong debut in the UK is perhaps more intriguing than most. For a couple of reasons.

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Two-minute cheat sheet of Nokia’s history

GLOBAL – The nature of being immersed in the realm of mobile technology naturally dictates that we hungrily devour current developments, simultaneously keeping one eye on the telescope firmly fixed on the horizon. Truth is looking backwards isn’t a typical behavioral trait when it comes to our breed, but of course it’s healthy, can be refreshing and is often entertaining, as proved by Symbian Freaks’ A Look Back At Nokia History piece that ran over the weekend.