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Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ to provide unlimited music downloads (UK)

  • September 2nd, 2008
  • 6:48 am

Nokia’s mobile music services, Comes With Music, which will be launching in UK next month, and in continental Europe and Asia next year.
Nokia is joining hands with mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse, which has more than 800 shops and is Apple’s sole independent distributor of the iPhone in UK, to stock the phone.
Nokia’s purpose is to compete with Apple iPhone and iTunes music service.
Carphone will start selling Apple’s 3G iPhone on pay-as-you-go deals from later this month.
Buyers of the Nokia handset will be getting unlimited music downloads for a year and will then have to pay a monthly subscription fee to retain the service.
Unlike other unlimited music services, if users choose not to buy a new device after a year, they can store and keep all the tracks already downloaded, and will also still be able to send texts and make calls.
   

O2 announces the PAYG package for the iPhone 3G (UK)

  • September 2nd, 2008
  • 5:37 am

O2 announces the pay - as - you - go iPhone 3G version which will be available to the customers from 16 September.
Within a few weeks, iPhone 3G’s 8GB version will cost the customer £349.99 and the 16GB just £50 more at £399.99.
“We wanted to make it available to as many people in the market as possible and that’s why we’ve opened it up to offer it on pre-pay,” an O2 spokesperson said.
Both the version will include unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi access for the first 12 months of ownership. After the expiry of the one year deal, customers will be able to continue enjoying the unlimited surfing package for just £10 a month.
O2 will also give it’s customers bonus goodies on the PAYG offer which will be, free texts and minutes up for grabs too. “You’ll be able to choose one of our standard Pay & Go tariffs to use with your iPhone 3G. The more you top-up each month, the more free minutes or texts you’ll receive,” the O2 site states.
The only flaw in this package is the the subscribers won’t be able to to take advantage of visual voicemail and call merging functionality.

   

Sony Ericsson W980 now on Pay-As-You-Go (UK)

  • August 26th, 2008
  • 10:43 am

Sony Ericsson’s new launch W980 walkman phone, a choice for music freaks, is now a part of the pay-as-you-go service.
W980 Walkman can now be purchased without any network credit, which was earlier released on O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone contract deals.
The Sony Ericsson lovers can now directly pay for the handset without signing up with lengthy and hefty contract deals.
Though pay as you call is more expensive than the contract deals but there is no control factor with the mobile operator, herein they can make calls only when they have credit and once the credit runs out there remains no possibility for heavy bills.
This system is useful for the one’s who use mobile phones rarely and use it for entertainment purpose.

Sony Ericsson W980 features:

  • Clamshell design, Flip Phone
  • Voice Dialling
  • 3.2-megapixel Camera with Zoom, Video Recording
  • Instant Messaging, Picture Messaging,  Email
  • Bluetooth, EDGE High-Speed Data, WAP Enabled, Java Enabled, HTML Browser, 3G (Third Generation)
  • Built in Radio, MP3 Player
  • Memory: 8GB of internal memory