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Nokia Music Store Arrives in India
Techtree News Staff, Aug 27, 2009 1313 hrs ISTComes with Music Service expected later this year
Nokia officially launched its Music Store in India at a function held in Mumbai yesterday. With more than 3 million tracks across various genres available for download, it is easily one of the largest stores of its kind designed for Indian users. The store is loaded with heavy localized content and to achieve this, the company has collaborated with local music labels including Tseries, Yashraj Music, Saregama, BIG Music and Venus. Along with the Music Store launch, Nokia is expected to launch its Comes With Music service in India as well, later this year. On the sidelines of the Music Store launch, Nokia also announced the launch of three new devices in India. These include the Nokia 5630, 5530 XpressMusic and the 5230. We already have covered the launch of these phones in our preview here.
Coming back to the Music Store, the current version of the Nokia Music Store gives users a variety of options to download music. The service comes with an "on-device" client for downloading music over the air or the easier to use PC Client. Users can play the purchased tracks wherever they want to and can sync it to their phones or to their PCs - unlike the case with most other DRM laden music. The full-fledged launch of the Music Store comes months after Nokia has started offering purchase vouchers with select phone models on the E, N and the XpressMusic series of phones.
At the launch of the service, Nokia's Head of Global Music, Elizabeth Schimel, informed that the Nokia Music Store is available in over 20 countries, with India being the 21st. Out of these countries, nine have access to the Comes With Music service. The service, as mentioned earlier, will also reach India by year-end. The specialty of the Nokia Music Store is its rich localized content. Nokia seems to have taken care in hiring people who have deep knowledge of local music genres and has managed to provide users with interesting content, as evident from the Home Screen of the Nokia Music Client. You can download the Music Store from the link provided at the beginning of the article.
Coming back to the Music Store, the current version of the Nokia Music Store gives users a variety of options to download music. The service comes with an "on-device" client for downloading music over the air or the easier to use PC Client. Users can play the purchased tracks wherever they want to and can sync it to their phones or to their PCs - unlike the case with most other DRM laden music. The full-fledged launch of the Music Store comes months after Nokia has started offering purchase vouchers with select phone models on the E, N and the XpressMusic series of phones.
At the launch of the service, Nokia's Head of Global Music, Elizabeth Schimel, informed that the Nokia Music Store is available in over 20 countries, with India being the 21st. Out of these countries, nine have access to the Comes With Music service. The service, as mentioned earlier, will also reach India by year-end. The specialty of the Nokia Music Store is its rich localized content. Nokia seems to have taken care in hiring people who have deep knowledge of local music genres and has managed to provide users with interesting content, as evident from the Home Screen of the Nokia Music Client. You can download the Music Store from the link provided at the beginning of the article.
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