First impressions of Nokia Comes With Music service

Tomorrow sees the launch of Nokia's Comes With Music service in the UK, via a deal with Carphone Warehouse to sell the first CWM handset, the 5310 XpressMusic. Nokia has lent journalists and bloggers a handset and an early login today, so we've been having a poke around.It requires the installation of the Nokia Music application on your PC – a 65.9MB download – which is essentially Nokia's version of iTunes, allowing users to manage and play their music library in the same application from which they download new stuff. There's an option to have it scan your hard drive for DRM-free music you already own.Right from the start, Nokia has clearly placed a big emphasis on the user interface. There's a nifty rollover tutorial the first time you launch the application, every element has a pop-up explanation when you hover over it, and there's lots of drag'n'drop functionality. So how does Comes With Music itself shape up?The signup process (right) is extremely quick – all they ask for is a username, password, email address, phone number and the Comes With Music PIN code that's found inside the box of the 5310 XpressMusic. Once in, the store is basically the [...]