Music Store in Singapore
Nokia Music Store was announced and now, we can access millions of tracks from major international artists, independent labels and Asian artists, at www.music.nokia.com.sg. The Nokia Music Store brings true freedom to music lovers, letting people buy and enjoy music directly from their Nokia device or personal computer.
“Consumers now have instant access to millions of songs from a very wide gamut of genres ranging from pop to dance to Asian like Mandarin, Malay and Indian music. At the same time, users can enjoy the great usability that the Nokia brand is renowned for,” said Grant McBeath, General Manager, Nokia Singapore. “By using the integrated mobile and PC download service, music lovers here can build a music collection that is truly mobile through the Nokia Music Store.”
Besides making available digital music from international labels at the Nokia Music Store, prominent independent labels in Asia including Ocean Butterflies Music and Rock Records Singapore have partnered with Nokia to distribute their content. Additionally, RS Digital, an independent label from Thailand is offering Thai music via the Singapore website. The combined Asian music content by the international and Asian labels gives consumers a very comprehensive array of Chinese, Malay and Thai soundtracks in addition to local music.
Nokia MD-8 Portable Speaker
To show off the qualiy of sound, Nokia offers MD-8 mini speakers for the Nokia 5320 or the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic handsets.
This speaker has tiny model which is can easily put into pocket. In terms of sound, the speakers boast to deliver clear and loud sound. It is equipped with an outstanding battery life that offers 40 hours of playtime on a full single charge.
By using the FM antenna, MD-8 takes the charge of entertaining users to the fullest with the FM tunes of their choice. It produces tangle-free cable management to enjoy the crisp stereo sound. The lipstick shaped speakers have a hinge at its end to unveil the two speakers when opened.
Music-Centered Phones, Nokia 5320 & 5220 XpressMusic
At the present day, Nokia announces XpressMusic 5320 and 5220. Both of those are based on candy bar form. Beside the similarity, the nokia 5320 and the nokia 5220 have a different. The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a S60 UI Symbian smartphone, while the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic is an untraditionally designed candy bar based on the S40 user interface. The Nokia 5220 XpressMusic will be available in Q3 2008 for around 160 euro before subsidies and taxes.
The Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is a bar shaped smartphone provided with HSDPA-enabled. The Nokia 5320 offers dedicated external music controls, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), a stereo FM radio and a 3.5mm standard audio jack. Nokia say that there is also a dedicated audio chip for better audio quality (which otherwise is a traditional weakness in Nokia phones, we hope they’ve borrowed the chip from Samsung).
Sony BMG Joins Nokia’s Comes With Music
Next few months, Nokia is going to launch a promotion program that gets you free music for a year from certain music labels. You can get it by purchase a Nokia device. This program is called Nokia’s “Comes with Music” program.
For its new initiative, Nokia joins with Sony BMG music. This program created to allow users of select Nokia mobile phones access the entire Sony BMG music catalog.
Under this program, consumers who buy a “Nokia Comes With Music” phone will have access to unlimited downloads of tracks from the Sony BMG music catalog including those by artists like Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, and Bruce Springsteen available through the Nokia Music Store for the first whole year of owning the phone.
Nokia Music Store Launch in Australia
On next Tuesday, The Nokia Music Store will be launched in Australia. With this launching Nokia The Nokia Music Store will face iTunes which is dominating market.
Over 2.5 million tracks are available to be downloaded directly from certain Nokia mobile phones or via the PC and synchronised to mobile devices.
For the price, it’s just need $1.70 for individual track and $17 for albums. And in an Australia-first offering, with a subscription fee of $10 a month, Nokia will allow customers to stream an unlimited number of full-length tracks directly from a player built into its music store website.
The Specs of the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia phone
Below are the specifications from the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia phone.
First from the appearance, this Nokia 5800 has similarity shape with iphone, but comes without multi-touch support like iPhone, put up with a standard touchscreen functionality.
the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia specs:
• Quad-Band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
• 3.2? 640×360 px (16:9 ratio) 16M color touchscreen display
• 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus
• Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0
• 140 MB of internal memory
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• TV-Out
• Dimensions: 111×52×14.5mm
• Weight: 104g
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