would kill *anything*.

- You don't need a data plan for CWM. A PC and/or wifi connection is enough.
- you can't buy it without a capable phone (this maybe changes/changed already
- OVI PC suite came out of beta just days/a week ago, have you been using beta since summer then Paul Harris? What kind of problems you have had with it then?

Nokia PC software is not the greatest, but I for example haven't had any problems with it (except it being Windows only and taking way too much memory for what it does)

@pwpht!: I don't think you can comment on this article if you can't tell the difference between Nokia Music store and Comes with Music. See there's only one common thing: "Music"

I switched to a Nokia 5800 this summer after using other brands, I made a big mistake. Nokia's OVI Pc software is flaky and problematic and they do not seem in a hurry to fix it. The service they provide for music and applications download is nowhere as easy to use a Apple's - I will not be buying Nokia again after this exposure to their rubbish software.

I have an N97 in the UK and I have bought and downloaded some albums from the Nokia Music Store over wifi (duh, who needs a data plan)). Does this count as one of the 32k CWM users in the UK?

I've got a nokia 5800 and the Comes With Music service is great. I download on my laptop and then transfer to the phone. Most new songs in the charts are there plus pretty much all old stuff I can think to download. The only things not on the list are most of Metallic (who are famous for their dislike of music downloads, illegal or not), the yonly have Master of Puppets and Oasis (also only 1 album). I haven't checked Beatles (don't like them) but maybe some other big selling bands are not there.

The great thing about the service is the little bands and one hit wonders from the 70s onwards that I remember only vaguely - it's great to track down a song from a partial lyric then download it. My phone was only $10 less for the music service and it's paid for itself so many times over. Well worth it.

When measuring something we say LESS, when counting something (such as users in the UK) we say FEWER!

Tsk.

Neil, you won't have Comes With Music, it's sold as part of a package with specific models of phones and not as an add on service. That will be something your operator has tacked on without you noticing in the small print. Orange?

Hopefully my family are not included in them numbers... We for the last 2 months have been paying for the service without us having knowledge of it. My sister and I have used the service but only for a month then unsubscribed.My sister phone which can't access internet (really old) some how was still being charged for it, and she doesn't even use it EVER.

which of course makes all of USA pirates in mpaa terms :P

I used to love Nokia phones. But after N95 they have not made a single decent phone. They think they are a great software company like Apple, Google or Microsoft but they are wrong. Whatever was their strength in hardware they have lost that as well. Their crap phones are suitable for the third world only which gives them large number of low value sales. My votes are with Samsung , Sony and Apple for high quality design and engineering. I think Nokia and Motorola should sell their business to Chinese companies before they become bankrupt.

Simply... I would LOVE to download musics for free legally on a phone... IF the phone don't cost me an arm and a leg...

PLUS I need a mobile internet access plan to download them... So in places where those services carries a hefty price (like Brasil where I live) it's a no deal.

Heck, I prefer to buy a mp3 capable phone and stay listening to my illegal mp3s...

Re: Phil
They're like aural photon torpedos,
I've no idea why Nokia has them.

What exactly are Music Bombs?
- and why has Nokia got them??