Nokia Music Service announcement

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Just for completeness, Nokia's new Music Store announcement is reproduced below. As part of the Ovi brand, it will work in conjunction with specific XpressMusic phones (listed at the bottom of the release), plus a brand new PC-hosted music synchronization application. Interesting highlights are that tracks are only 1 Euro each, delivered in very high quality 192kbps DRM-ed WMA files and that you can pay by PayPal. See below for more.

Read on in the full article.

Nice trick to call it Ovi. It means 'door' in Finnish. Microsoft has Windows, Nokia has Door.

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>DRM-ed WMA files

Very forward looking. Just as all the other download services are looking to give DRM up.

Its not clear if all Nokia products with music playing capabilities can use this service? I assume the 2 methods of getting the music onto the phone, over the air and linked to the Nokia Music PC application, will only work on certain models? It would limit market share if only some high-end N series phones were the only ones that could use the service.