- Nokia Music Store
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Nokia Music Store is part of the Ovi[1] services portal from Nokia. It was launched on August 29, 2007[2]. The idea behind the store is to provide to all Nokia MP3 capable mobile users a music store on the phone as on the PC.
The Nokia Music Store officially opened in the UK on October 1, 2007 with offering of music from SonyBMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music Group, as well as others.
The music file format used by the store is MP3 without any DRM protection.
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Payment
The music (single tracks or albums) is paid with credit card or with vouchers. Accepted credit cards are: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB.
Nokia Music Software
Nokia Music Store has its own software to serve as front gate of the store on the PC and on the phones. It is called Nokia Ovi Player, previously was Nokia Music Player.
Comes With Music
In October 2008, Nokia announced the Nokia 5800, a direct competitor to the iPhone and with it the service Comes With Music[3], which consists of a year of free music downloads included in the price of the phone. This service is optional to the carriers.
Within the box of the phone there is a card with an ID that will be linked to the PC (MAC address) and mobile phone (IMEI), so that PC and mobile phone have unlimited music downloads for over a year.
Until 2010 the service had DRM files that cannot be burned onto CDs but only played from the phone. In case the user wanted to burn the song, they had to buy it from the store.
In September 2010 the service changed name to "Unlimited Music Downloads"
Streaming
Nokia Music Store has a streaming service that costs €10 per month but the service is not available in all countries.
Availability
As of August 5, 2009, the store was available in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Today (May 2011) its available in 38 countries.
The service Comes With Music is not available in all the stores.
References
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Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
