Nokia Announces New ' Comes With Music' Program

04/12/07

Today at the Nokia World event in Amsterdam, Nokia announced its new "Comes With Music" program. While details are a bit thin at this point, the main point is that Nokia phones will be offered with a 1 year subscription to the Comes With Music service, which they can access and freely download an unlimited number of tracks from the millions of tracks that Nokia will initially offer.

The best part of the service, however, is that once the year long subscription has expired, users will still get to keep, and play, any tracks that were downloaded during the previous year. Nokia has said that initially the Comes With Music system will offer only tracks published by Universal Music Group, but has stated that it is already in talks with other music publishing houses. For those not familiar with Universal Music Group, it is the publisher for artists such as U2, Johnny Cash, Amy Winehouse, and Maroon 5 - among countless others.

What we still don't know yet, however, is which handsets Comes With Music will be offered on, whether there will be an additional cost to get the service with a handset purchase, and what type of DRM, if any, will be used on the downloaded tracks.

Via Mobile Burn