Expansys pre-orders indicate Comes with Music at around £70-£85 premium

[Rafe]

Pre-order information on Expansys suggests that Nokia's Comes with Music handsets may have a premium of around £70-£85. Comes with Music gives you unlimited music downloads for a year (and the right to keep that music at the end of the year). However it is must be noted that these prices should be considered speculative and subject to change. Read on for more details

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[Tzer2]

That sounds more or less in line with the rumoured 100 euro premium.

But as with all online services, the prices and terms may change radically over time as there are no physical production costs involved.

No one has offered a deal quite like this one before so no one knows how well it will do in the marketplace. All Nokia can do is try it and see what happens.

[viipottaja]

The thing with adding CWM to existing phones they are effectively partially (only partially as Nokia is certainly taking part of the hit, i.e. subsidizing the service to some extent) disclosing how much they are paying for it; I think that'a is potentially a mistake and they should have launched with CWM exclusive phone model - sure, that would have its own risk. It just that I'd think it will be harder sell if you have, say the 5800 available at $400 without, and $475 with the CWM service than, simply selling the CWM version ONLY at $475.

Well, perhaps they'll have both; phones with and without and some phones that are sold only with the CWM.

[jah]

Its like subscribing to the navigation service. I would be happy to pay £85 a year, I spend that already in downloads and that is probably about 1.5GB of msic as opposed to 32MB potential of the N96!

I wouldn't trust their prices.

Expansys are nearly always way out on pre-order prices. This usually stick £50 on top of the RRP then lower it steadily over the first few weeks of sale until it's nearer the correct price.

They have done this for years to sting the early adopters. They caught quite a few people out with the N95 8GB and N78.

Posting competitors prices on their forum usually forces them to lower prices to an acceptable level.

On the plus side they do have good customer support.

does this comes with your choice of music it would be shame as a jazz fan to have rock music instead.

[ashu]

of course, if you are a music freak and are able to make good of the differential in one year, its a damn good deal

Cost too much upfront. I would say £50 per year is a fair price.

However when it becomes available and bundled in contracts I see this doing very well.

[shadamehr]

Is this the same Expansys that is well reknowned for charging anything up to £79 difference between handsets the same model but in a different COLOUR...?

They have never been a good yardstick of True Price, please bear in mind.

[Rafe]

Indeed Expansys doesn't exactly have the most open pricing arrangements. Worth noting is this NokNok story which says the pricing rumours are rubbish.

It will be interesting to see what the pricing level is when the time comes. But I'd honestly be surprised if it is more than an order of magnitude either way of the £80 mark (i.e. £40-160). Moreover I doubt we'll ever know the real cost as it'll be hidden behind subsidies and promotions - although it is the cost to the consumer that will be number of significance in any case.

This BS story has made it to main stream sites like engadget now so the masses will believe it to be true.

Well done AAS for spreading dis-information based on one websites preorder prices.

Next time choose your sources more wisely.