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Sony BMG officially joined Nokia’s yet to be launched service Comes With Music. Nokia’s service is planned to be launched in second half of 2008. Customers who buy Nokia’s handsets with this service enabled, will be able to download unlimited amount of music tracks during 1 year and will be able to keep tracks afterwards.

Nokia will be sharing profits with participating record companies, but details are not known at the moment. Nokia is confident that this service may generate up to $4 billion annual revenue and increase use of legitimate music.

Sony BMG Entertainment has artists like Beyonce, George Michael, Shakira, Aerosmith, Sean Kingston, Paul Potts and many others.

Nokia Press Release

Nokia released another update for N95 phones: 21.0.016.

Release contains improvements to standby-time, bluetooth interoperability, Windows Media Player support, SIM enhancements, Java enhancements and importantly Flash Lite 3, which will enable users to watch Flash videos. So now you can watch all those YouTube clips on the  move!

Sounds like a must have update, so if you are N95 user, fire up your Nokia Software Updater and update your device!

If you remember I have blogged about Nokia launching music site, now Nokia is expanding it’s online services to N-Gage games. Moreover Nokia has consolidated all of it’s online services under 1 site branded as Ovi.

Site contains following services:

1. Online photo and video sharing
2. Music Store
3. N-Gage games
4. Nokia Maps
5. Calendar and Contact

You can connect to these services using your Nokia mobile phone or PC.

Nokia has moved agressively into mobile content and services in 2007.

Another service Nokia launched previously is Mosh where you can download, upload and share files with other subscribed users. You can download client to your compatible Nokia handset and start using it straight away! Site contains various files, including ringtones, themes, images, videos, widgets, wallpapers and many more.

Nokia has launched a set of low-priced phone models:

Model	Price	Description	Image
Nokia 1208	£39.00	Affordable and easy-to-use, with handy One Touch shortcut keys, unique cost management features, and a vibrant color display screen to make your connections hassle-free.
Nokia 2630	£79.00	Celebrate life’s precious moments with the slender Nokia 2630, featuring a VGA camera for pictures and video, email, Bluetooth, WAP 2.0 browser, and FM radio.
Nokia 2760	£69.00	Elegant and modern design, digital VGA camera (4x zoom) with video recorder and playback, large user memory, and easy Bluetooth connectivity.

Phones are available to buy from Nokia website.

Samsung on the other hand is planning to enter low-end handset market this year to compete more effectively with Nokia. Samsung is planning to release phones with colour screens for $40-$50 (£20-£25) and capture market in emerging markets, such as India, Russia and Latin America.

Currently Samsung is number 2 phone maker in the world and is planning to secure it’s market share by expanding to lower-end market.

There are no signs of new inexpensive handsets on Samsung’s website yet, but I am sure they will appear very soon!

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Popular smartphone Nokia N95 Black is now available from 3. You can get it with 18 month contract as low as £15 a month. Handset comes with full length Spiderman 3 movie, which you can watch on handet’s 2.8″ QVGA screen or at home using TV Out application.

You can buy it from 3 here.

With recent 15.0.015 firmware update for the N95 8GB from Nokia, handset is more stable and faster, and it adds full support for Flash Lite 3, including video, which automatically allows the use of sites such as YouTube. With this capabilities, you can utilize 3’s 3G network to the max, watch videos online, download music and browse media rich websites.

Black Nokia N95 8GB is already available for about 6 months from Vodafone.

I wonder when other providers will offer this handset so that customers on other networks can get hold of this handset.

If you own this handset and updated firmware recently, please share your experience!

See handset review here.