Nokia Comes With Music launched in Singapore

John Chan | Feb 27, 2009

Nokia's all-you-can-eat music download service called Comes With Music (CWM) is finally available here in Asia. During the launch of the 5800 XpressMusic in Singapore, details of the service were laid out including how you can get on it and the costs involved.

Unlike Apple's iTunes Store where you pay for each track or album separately, CWM is available at a flat yearly rate. The user can download as many songs or albums as he wants and keep all of them even after the end of the subscription period. These digital tracks are protected by DRM (digital rights management) though, so there are restrictions on which computers or devices you can use to listen to them. To find out more about the mechanics of this service, read our detailed review of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

Currently, a user can only purchase this service together with selected handsets. The 5800 is naturally one of them, at S$798 (US$573.07) for the phone and a one-year subscription. Aside from Nokia's first full-touchscreen S60 device, the company is also bundling a year's worth of CWM with the following devices:

N96 in black (S$1,238)
N85 in cherry black (S$938)
N79 in black (S$858)
5320 XpressMusic in gray (S$618)
5220 XpressMusic in titanium (S$558)

While you cannot buy the 5800 without a CWM service for now, the rest of the products listed have already been and will continue to be available without the service. Nokia would not comment when asked if it would offer the 5800 without CWM in the future.

Nokia has only launched CWM in Australia and Singapore for Asia Pacific. This is because the Nokia Music Store is only available in these two countries in the region for now.

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