Nokia Comes with Music review

Posted by Rhiain Morgan on Wed 22 Oct 2008

Our downloading days are here to stay

Audiophiles thought Christmas had downloaded early with news that Nokia Comes with Music is now available. The offer of 12 months unlimited downloads sounded too good for our sonic-loving ears to believe, but after a day's snaffling we've got to admit that we're impressed.

First up, the handset issue; much like young Theo Walcott joining the England team the sprightly Comes with Music newbie is dragged onto the archaic Nokia 5310 Xpress Music phone. Exclusively available from Carphone Warehouse the 5310 is far from the latest or the greatest phone, but the service will be available on other jazzier handsets soon - we're looking at you Mr Tube .

Installing the Nokia Store is a doddle. It takes slightly longer than the "make a cup of tea and it'll be finished" test, but we were ready to go by the time it would take to grill some teacakes for The Waltons.

Once set up, log in your deets and you're free to explore all the 80's dance tunes your heart desires. It's an easy interface, similar to Nokia phones, the menus are intuitive and easy to follow and you won't end up downloading Winehouse when you clearly meant to get Wham. With millions of tracks at your fingertips there's more than enough choice.

Download time is on par with the other big players out there, it matched iTunes and 7Digital to the megabit. According to our ever-so-scientific calculations there's 8,760 hours in a year, it takes a mere 3 minutes to download a song; that makes it possible to get your mitts on 175,200 tracks in 12 months. Seems fair?

Once you've had your fill of downloads it's pretty easy to get tunes from your PC to your phone. Whack in your phone and, using the drag and drop (it's an oldie but a goodie), pick up a tune from the PC and stick it on the phone. Synchronising takes next to no time and there's none of that "if I unplug it now I'll lose everything" iPod fear.

As a service, Nokia Comes with Music is as easy as asking a Russian oligarch for money but having to use it on the Nokia 5310 or the pricier N95 8GB is a snag. Even though we can hoard unlimited yearly tracks, they're stuck on the PC and the mobi, rather than your nifty MP3 player. Didn't Nokia's parents teach them that it was good to share?

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