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Nokia launched its free, ad-free, Lumia-exclusive, and pretty sweet streaming music service “Nokia Music” in September of last year, and now it’s upping the ante with a moderately priced paid version that comes with all the fixin’s.
Nokia Music+ is pretty much like your paid versions of services like Spotify, but at just $5 (~£3.15) it bets most of its competitors on price. If you pick up the premium version of the service, you’ll get higher audio quality, unlimited skips in radio-mode, lyrics, and last but not least, as many songs as you can download and fit on your colorful little handset for offline play.
The service is still playlist-based, so you can pick and choose your tracks, but the curation can prove to be a bonus, and at half the standard going rate of premium music services, it’s a pretty good deal. Nokia has yet to announce what countries it’s going to bring the new service to or when it’s rolling out, but here’s to hoping we’re on the list. [Nokia via ZDNet]
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GO NOKIA !!
I like Nokia cause their phones look different but they’ll need to update their specs and release open OS versions before I’m interested. I wish Symbian turned out better than it did because all we’re left with now is Android. Nokia already had the user base which any other OS wont have when it starts, so it is such a shame.
Every update Google just looks to make their OS more like the iPhone which is annoying, I don’t even think Android will stay open for long. Google have just turned into everyone else and are trying to unify Android. I’m not a fan of this and I’m not a fan of limited hardware, the best thing about Android is there is a phone for everyone. You’re not limited to all having the same phone like with the iPhone..
This whole unified IOS is so overrated, what has it brought really? It has less functionality than Android, you have to wait for Apple to make changes. The changes they’ve made to the latest IOS I tried sucks, the store is horrible to use. I went into News stand and there was no search, you have to go into the app store to get it but it was still hard to find compared to how it used to be. For some reason the search tab is there intermittently and isn’t unified like say Windows search is with the store. I hate the change they’ve made to the categories menu and I hate how everything looks cut off on that skinny screen, like it wasn’t made for it.
With Android you just go look up what you want on XDA and it’ll probably be there, maybe in a form of a rom or an app. However like I said Google are slowly trying to make it harder and harder which sucks.
In fact the only thing iPhone users say is better on IOS than Android is the app store. No one likes iTunes, it’s an intrusive nasty, clunky, slow mess of a program and it runs like shit on Windows at least. It makes everything harder to get on and off your phone and most the time you cannot get the content off your phone, you cannot even download to it or see it as a drive on your PC.
However looking at the app store, most of the top stuff is still there from when I last used an iPhone 2 years ago. 90% of the content is shit and the stuff that is popular I can play on Android or I’d rather play on my PC. I have no idea for example why you’d play those Gameloft games, just play the better versions that they ripped off when you get home.
Anyways my point is, sad Symbian failed.
I’d have thought given how much you typed that you might inadvertently type something related to the post…
This is mostly an anti-iOS/Android rant, though you appear to also be suggesting that you can’t consider Nokia because WP8 isn’t ‘open’. Thanks for your nonsensical opinion piece…it really helped me wei
…gh up the value of Nokia’s new music service.
And while we’re on topic, don’t even get me started on plumbers who commit to come to your house to repair a leaky mixer tap and then don’t even pitch up!