Nokia to offer paid upgrade to Lumia-only music service
A few months after jumping in to the free music streaming sector, Nokia is getting ready to give its Lumia-only service a jump-start with a premium upgrade.
Nokia Music+, an upgrade to the free Mix Radio service that Nokia launched last September, will offer Lumia owners unlimited skips and unlimited downloads, the Finnish handset maker announced in a company blog post today. The service also will offer higher-quality streams, allowing downloads at eight times the existing quality.
The new service will also offer lyrics for users' mobile devices and a Web app for home use. "Nokia Music is great for discovering new music, and we've found that there's a core of users that want even more of it," Nokia vice president of entertainment Jyrki Rosenberg said in the post. "This is how Nokia Music+ came about."
