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.

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...

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