Nokia And Universal Team Up To Make Splashy, Vague Announcement About Allegedly Exciting New Technologies

Nokia’s forthcoming Comes With Music program will, according to the breathless press release the company released today, give users “unlimited access to millions of tracks from a range of great artists – past, present and future.” And anyone who buys a Nokia handset will get a year-long, free subscription to the program. And even if those users don’t reup after their free year, they can keep the songs they’ve already downloaded on their handset. Uh, there has to be a catch, right?

Well, details on the program were pretty sketchy, save one: Comes With Music is launching with the catalogue of Universal Music Group, a record company that has proven in the past to hook up with winners when it comes to innovative ways to get music digitally distributed anywhere that isn’t iTunes. And as far as I can tell, the Ovi platform that Comes With Music runs on doesn’t have a timetable as far as a US launch. But, you know, today’s announcement makes Doug Morris look kind of like he knows what he’s doing as far as new technologies go! It even got written up in the Wall Street Journal, man! Which means that someone should bookmark this post for August 2008 to see if the thing has actually launched by then.

Nokia unveils “Comes With Music” [Nokia]