hello 5800

I bought a UK nokia 5800 on day of release. This blog is my ongoing user review.

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Fri Jan 30
Nokia music store in good experience shocker. I had bought one album on the nokia music store ‘Over the air’ just to see if it worked.  That was on my E71, so I copied the files over from the memory card, fired up Music Player - and expected a world of pain. But no - the album was added, on trying to play it there was a locked icon next to each track, clicking on the track it asked me if i would like to get the license over the air. Yes Please.  I entered my username and password, and now it just works - HURRAH! DRM sucks but if we do have it at least let me play my own music - so well done.  
Next up I wanted to redeem the coupon I received for 10 free tracks. The coupon mentioned doing it via a pc. I clicked on the Music Store app, and on the home page (down the bottom) is a link to PIN redemption, log in, enter license. And now my account has £8 credit. Now the Feel Good Factor kicks in. No need for going near any computers - the cloud rules.

Though I would still stick to DRM free purchases (Amazon/iTunes etc) as they can move to my apple/cd/ipod wherever. 

Nokia music store in good experience shocker. I had bought one album on the nokia music store ‘Over the air’ just to see if it worked.  That was on my E71, so I copied the files over from the memory card, fired up Music Player - and expected a world of pain. But no - the album was added, on trying to play it there was a locked icon next to each track, clicking on the track it asked me if i would like to get the license over the air. Yes Please.  I entered my username and password, and now it just works - HURRAH! DRM sucks but if we do have it at least let me play my own music - so well done.  

Next up I wanted to redeem the coupon I received for 10 free tracks. The coupon mentioned doing it via a pc. I clicked on the Music Store app, and on the home page (down the bottom) is a link to PIN redemption, log in, enter license. And now my account has £8 credit. Now the Feel Good Factor kicks in. No need for going near any computers - the cloud rules.

Though I would still stick to DRM free purchases (Amazon/iTunes etc) as they can move to my apple/cd/ipod wherever. 

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