Ben Smith at SMSTextNews continues his long-term look at the Ovi components, and now turns his attention to the Nokia Music Store. His overall grade of a ‘C-‘ reflects his view that the service is “good enough as a default” but he wonders what positive impact the ‘Comes with Music’ package will have in the future.

The mobile client, however, I think leaves a great deal more to be desired. Accessed from a menu icon it gives the impression of being a dedicated application, but in fact just loads the standard browser.

The other annoyance is the number of clicks it takes to purchase a song… It really does feel tortuously slow and if a page fails to load or is broken having to repeat steps of the process exacerbates that glacial sense of progress.

I think Nokia may have a shot at the beginnings of a successful effort here. Their soon-to-be-launched ‘comes with music‘ initiative has been widely derided in the press and cost a few executives their jobs, but I think it’s the sweetener that could get people hooked…

Smith is wrapping up with a look at Nokia Maps next week, but for now, his Music views can be found here.