Nokia drags more Comes With Music handsets out for Singapore launch

Slowly but surely, Nokia's Comes With Music is checking off locales on its tour around the world. Next up is Singapore, and rather than sticking to the same selection of CwM-equipped handsets as we've seen thus far, it'll be tossing in the lower-end 5320 XpressMusic and 5220 XpressMusic alongside the 5800, N96, N95 and N79. When the service and handsets launch in "the coming weeks," it'll mark the first nation in Asia to take part in Nokia's fun little all-you-can-digest music initiative. For those keeping score, this will make Singapore the first country on the planet to have access to a CwM 5800, though there's no word on how costly any of the previously mentioned mobiles will be. Patience, friends -- it's all we can count on these days.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2009 7:36AM]

If Nokia will mange to redesign in a decent way its infamous "Nsuite" syncing program(s) I might be tempted to buy an N97 when it will be available.
After all my N95 and later N95-8GB where excellent phones, the main reasons I swiched to win mobile (buyng an HTC touch HD, and a Samsung Omnia) were the bloated and horrible "Nsuite" software and the lack of touch screen tech.
The N97 promise a top notch touch screen, now if nokia will make a decent sync'ing software I'll be more than happy to get back to the best speach recognition software, best camera/videocam, and best stereo speakers ever found in any smartphone .
C'm on Nokia, you can do it!
And if you can't thankfully Archos is preparing an ass kickin' 5" smartphone with Android, and the Asus /Garmin Nuvifone G60 looks promising too.
And to stay with win mobile (6.5) HTC Whitestone or Tungsten, or the new Toshiba 4 incher seem interesting pieces of mobile tech too.
You better watch your back Nokia, look what happened to Motorola, this N97 better be good or your primacy is gonna be seriously challenged.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2009 10:11AM]

I guess it's different strokes for different folks. I love the Nokia PC Suites. Of all the syncing software out there, I find it stable, reliable, and light on resources. Sync via bluetooth especially works well.

When I compare PC Suite it to other major smartphone makers I find it suprior. For example, Blackberry Desktop needs a minor miracle to have bluetooth work, is about as manual as it gets, and requires more reboots than a Storm.

I'm excited about the N97, and like you, think it is a really critical device for Nokia. My major concern is that it may be underpowered. That would be a real problem for Nokia...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2009 8:08AM]

I know, I'm a total airhead for asking this, but what is CwM?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2009 10:48AM]

CwM = comes with music