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Nokia has officially launched their ‘Comes with Music‘ service in Singapore on the 27th February.

The service brings you unlimited downloads of music for 12 months from their ‘Comes with Music’ store, which boasts an extensive library of 4 million (and counting) tracks from huge music labels and even some asian labels such as Ocean Butterflies and Rock Records.

The catch for such a good deal is that you must own one of their ‘Comes with Music’ handsets. There are 6 of them as of now and they are the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, N96, N85 and N79. Users can download from the ‘Comes with Music’ store right off most of the mentioned handsets or on their PCs through an application.

There is no subscription fee or download limit to speak of if you are wondering about that. Users can also keep their music after their 12 months of free, unlimited downloads.

I got to attend their media event held at Zouk prior to ‘Earn Your Stripes’ party thanks to the awesome folks at Text 100 who remembered that I am was an avid user of the Nokia N95 8GB. It’s kinda ironic attending a Nokia event based on that fact, seeing that I have move to the Apple iPhone after a decade of using Nokia products like the indestructable Nokia 3210.

Pictures of the event.

Funny Hosts – Vernon and Justin

The All-American Rejects who sat 3 feet from me!

The issue of DRM is pretty important for users like me and unfortunately, Nokia ‘Comes with Music’ isn’t DRM free. The good news is that Nokia is working to change that. If this is materialized, users will definitely benefit seeing that there isn’t even a hint of the Apple iTunes music store being made available to Singapore.

I still love Nokia and seeing Nokia bring a legal music download service to Singapore ahead of Apple, brings much joy to a Nokia fanboy.

The good folks at Text 100 invited me for the media launch of Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service and the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone which is happening down at Zouk this Friday on the 27th of February where I will probably get to fondle the cool looking phone and try out the song download service. What’s interesting for the rest of you guys reading this is that there will be an open event for everyone!

A Nokia Music Lounge will be at Zouk’s carpark where the hit band, All-American rejects will perform. The party starts at 9pm and will last late into the night in Zouk itself with Deadmau5 entertaining from 1am onwards.

Now, the most important thing that you guys will probably want to know; how to buy the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at 58 cents?

Go to the party dressed in stripes and stand a chance to be one of the lucky 58 peeps who will get to walk away with the mobile phone on the spot at the swanky price of 58 cents! There are MANY other perks of going down to Zouk dressed in stripes, so please head down to the official party page at Earn Your Stripes to find out more!

I’ll blog more about Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic after the event. Stay tuned!