Nokia to Comes With Music

Digital music is the way to go nowadays. More and more people downloading music to their computers or portable media players. Just look at the success Apple has right now with their iPod and iTunes. And apparently, Nokia want a slice of the pie.

Nokia will launch their own digital music download service with Comes With Music. The Nokia Comes With Music bundle will include a Nokia phone and all the music users can download for a full year. After the 12 months period, the user can keep all the music they have downloaded permanently and legally. Three of the world's biggest music publishers, Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music Group is participating in the program along with some other smaller publishers. The first Nokia Comes With Music phones will be released on October 17 via Carphone Warehouse in UK.

Sony Ericsson + Unlimited Music Download?

This week, we have been hearing alot from Sony Ericsson. First, they announced the SE G705, and then they have SE Xperia X1 dated. And now, a report published in the Financial Times indicates Sony Ericsson will take a cue from Nokia and offer an unlimited music downloading service for all Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

Sony BMG, EMI and Warner are all onboard with the project, although it's still unknown if Universal will hop on the music service bandwagon.

Sony Ericsson is one of several phone manufacturers that have a line of phones specifically dedicated to playing music and utilizing other entertainment purposes. The company already has its PlayNow Arena music store for phone owners, with the service receiving an upgrade within the past month. PlayNow Arena users must pay for each downloaded song.

Sony Ericsson has fallen to the fifth-largest phone manufacturer in the world, and has had recent troubles, issuing two profit warnings so far in 2008. Analysts have been perplexed as to why Sony Ericsson would promote the Walkman phones but do so little to try and create a service for consumers to acquire content in a more efficient, cheaper manner.

The largest phone manufacturer in the world, Nokia, recently announced its Comes With Music service will be ready to launch next month, with some phone owners given the ability to download unlimited music to their phones. Even though both companies have pay-per-track music stores, poor music sales have led the record industries to pressure manufacturers to try and help increase digital music sales.

The new unlimited song download service from Sony Ericsson is expected to launch in Europe prior to the 2008 holiday shopping season.

Nokia N85

Actually, Nokia introduced two new N series, the N85 and N79. But I only mention the N85 this time. The phone is full of features as expected from a high end market it's targeted. It is a 4 band GSM and 3 band 3.6 mbps HSDPA. The screen use OLED 16M colors, 240x320 pixels, 2.6" with accelerometer built in. It also has touch sensitive naviwheel just like N81. It can support up to 8GB microSD with 74 MB of internal memory and 128MB of RAM. Bluetooth and wifi with UPNP technology are there too. The N85 is a Symbian phone with OS 9.3 S60 feature pack 2. It has a 5MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics to complement it. But it only has LED flash, not Xenon. It capable of recording a 30 fps VGA video. A- GPS, tv out, FM stereo radio with RDS, FM transmitter and 3.5 mm audio output jack complete the dual slide design handset. Expected to be in store shelves this October.

Nokia N96 And Samsung I8510 Now Available

After all this time, Nokia finally decide to throw N96 on the market. I think it has something to do with Samsung being released the I8510 INNOV8 earlier this month. The two has almost identical feature with the notable different is the capability of the camera. Samsung's equipped with a 8 megapixels camera, while Nokia's only has 5 Megapixels. The other notable feature is the DVB-H that the N96 has which I8510 lacks. All in all, I believe that the two will find success as they have their own fans. As for me, I like I8510 better. But I can't afford it.
Here's a picture of Nokia N96. As for I8510's picture, you can see it in my older post.

Out of Topic

As the title suggest, this one is a little off topic. I'm not going to talk about games, nor technology, nor movies, nor mobiles. Let me talk about me. It's a blog after all.
I introduced myself in my very first post in this blog. And to tell the truth, this is my very first attempt creating a blog. I do all this from my Nokia 6270 cellphone. I don't have a computer and I'm too lazy to go to internet cafe. I just use what is available to me. I'm not rich, therefore, there will be times where I don't update this blog for awhile because I don't have the money to make my cellphone go online.
Now you all understand the situation here. Since the looks of the web I see from my cellphone is different from a regular computer, layout of this blog is not a priority to me. But if anyone want to help me improve this blog, be my guest. I'm open to suggestion, comments, or anything. In fact, I'm encourage you all to do so.
I'm just a newbie with a limited access and tools. So anything would be appreciated. :-)