Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finally got a network carrier for its flagship Comes With Music 5800 handset. Orange is taking the unlimited music package on five price plans, starting at £25. Nokia hasn’t given stats on the success of the service, but the assumption has been that take-up is low despite big marketing spend and MusicAlly recently reported it has a mere 23,000 users in the UK. A carrier partnership for Comes With Music on the 5800 may provide the much-needed boost that the unlimited music service needs and would finally lay rest to what exactly held the service back.

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It will be interesting to see in the UK if CWM’s popularity is simply down to the handset and carrier support after all. In April, Nokia chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo revealed that the 5800 Xpress Music combined with Comes With Music had been a “big success story,” for the device maker in the countries the device has been launched in, helping it ship 2.6 million units in Q1. More detail at mocoNews.net...