Nokia's Comes With Music premium in the $150 range?
By Darren Murph 
posted September 10th 2008 10:09PM
posted September 10th 2008 10:09PM
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As long as the selection is expansive, I'd absolutely pay for it.
I don't know about US, but due to the way contracts work here, people tend to change phones less often than, let's say, Hong Kong. In HK, when they say they give you a price for a phone if you stick with them for 2 years, you pay the full price, then they give some back each month. Over here, it's 20 bucks each month you have left in your contract withdrawl fee, causing quite some pain to back out of a contract...
@Vanillacide: my understanding from the previous Engadget posts is that you can keep it after one year - whatever you have downloaded in the first year. Also - it was said - that you can transfer music to a total of 5 clients (phone, PC - no Mac so far).
That's still $12.5 per month, but you keep what you have bought.
not surprising
These things dont look nice at all! They cost almost as much as the Touch Pro!
These things look cool but at those prices? I wouldn't pay more than $250 for one of these. I got my iPhone for just $319. How does a nokia justify those prices?
@PeterF: Touch Pro is £514.99, the phone above (5310) is £145.99 (£214.99 with unlimited music for one year).
@Flashpoint: those prices are unlocked, network-free, not tied to 2-year contract options. I assume that your $319 is a locked one.
Your mom comes with music too. But she prefers to come without.
I see what you did there.
The article is all in Sterling (£) then why do you have to put the headline as US/CDN/AUS Dollars? PUT IT IN POUNDS!
That phone isn't the N95 8GB there are several phones with the CwM including the N95 8GB which is a far superior phone to the iPhone.
Nokias more than justify their price technologically but iPhone only justify's itself with the 'look at me factor' which is going away now anyway seeing as more and more people are getting them :)
Most of the readership, including those of us who use £, have a good idea how much one US dollar is and how it converts into our local currency. So it's a diplomatic measure.
I'm personally pretty sceptical of the service, especially as you have to buy a new CwM phone after a year to keep access to your music (you can still listen to it on a PC, though).