Much as expected, Nokia did after all announce three XpressMusic phones today. The three are the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5030 XpressMusic – each one is actually better than the other, so it is going to get difficult to choose between them! Out of these, the Nokia 5030 is being branded as the XpressRadio phone.
The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is the company’s first music-optimized device to also offer a full QWERTY keyboard, most ideal for quick messaging. The Homescreen features an improved contacts bar, N-Gage and applications, such as Photos, Ovi Contacts, messaging, Facebook, Maps and more. The Music shortcut gives users direct and quick access to the music stored on the device plus the Nokia Music Store. The dedicated gaming keys make the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic a truly N-Gage gadget.
Touch keys on the side of the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic provide the user instant access to music, with high quality sound. This device also gives the user direct access to social networking and online sharing Websites as well.
Nokia 5730 XpressMusic
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There is some interesting rumor doing its rounds in the mobile market and that is, Nokia is planning to make its Nokia Music Store DRM-free. During the opening ceremony of the Nokia Music Store and Comes With Music at Singapore, the director of global digital music retail at Nokia was heard saying that the company is planning to remove the hitherto existing DRM protection from its Nokia Music Store.
The Nokia Music Store at present has a brilliant library, comprising more than 4 million tracks, including both local and international artists. These tracks are protected with Microsoft’s PlayForSure DRM, which puts an upper limit on the number of phones and computers the songs can be played on. Even the 12 or 18-month Comes With Music program comes with its limitations.
Like we stated earlier, this is not confirmed yet, so we will all have to wait and watch for more information.
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Nokia is out with its aggressive launch strategy for its music service in European countries. The latest is the launch of Nokia Music Store in Italy with its new digital music site. We know that of all the music that is downloaded in Italy, a major 54% of that music accounts to local music.
So strategically Nokia Music store has a huge number of local tracks available for Italian users. Interestingly Nokia has put up a team in each country to accquire its music according to relevant region. Nokia search engine enables the differentiation between genres such as Italian music, pop, hip hop and rock.
Nokia currently holds more than 4 million songs including records from Universal Music Group, SONY BMG ENTERTAINMENT, Warner Music Group and EMI Group, independent record labels, and new national talent.
Italian music lovers can go to http://music.nokia.it to downlaod music of all types and users with Nokia N85, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8GB or Nokia N95, Nokia N96, can directly access the store by selecting Nokia Music Store icon on their mobile device.
Nokia Music Store in Italy
Nokia today officially opened its new digital music store for Spain users. The online catalogue includes more than 4 million songs so users have really a huge choice. The store covers more than 70% of music sold in the Spain. Users can now get results of Flamenco, Latin music, Alternative or Electronic music styles.
Nokia offers tracks for EUR 1.50 each and whole albums for EUR 10. For a streaming service you will pay also EUR 10. For more information and available songs visit Nokia Music Store here www.music.nokia.es.
Nokia Music Store
