Nokia 5235 Comes With Music phone revealed

Posted by Chris Smith on Sat 12 Dec 2009

Budget touchscreen with all-you-can-eat music

Nokia has revealed the latest addition to its Comes With Music handset range by announcing the Nokia 5235; a sign that the company will continue to put faith in the struggling all-you-can eat subscription service.

The Nokia 5235 touchscreen phone is a scaled down version of the popular 5800 Xpress Music handset. It also appears to be hugely similar to the Nokia 5230 handset released just four months ago, which doesn't offer the Comes With Music package.

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The handset will boast a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 16GB microSD card to store your music, along with a 3.5mm jack and full access to the Nokia Ovi store.

Like the 5230, it'll come in at a budget SIM-free price of around £140, which for 12-months of unlimited music from the Nokia Music Catalogue and a touchscreen handset isn't all that bad.

However, the price has never been the problem for Comes With Music, it's the awkward interface, DRM-restricted tracks and chronic lack of handset choice that has really hampered the platform.

With subscription figures in the toilet and Spotify for Symbian now available for a host of Nokia phones, it is somewhat surprising that the company continues to flog this dead horse.

The Nokia 5235 will be released in the first three months of 2010.

Link: Nokia