{"id":16592,"date":"2011-01-18T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2011-01-18T07:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:09:57","slug":"nokia-calls-it-quit-on-ovi-music-unlimited-on-most-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/nokia-calls-it-quit-on-ovi-music-unlimited-on-most-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Calls it Quit on Ovi Music Unlimited on Most Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia has made the announcement that they will be pulling the plug on free music bundled with mobile phones\u00a0 in 27 countries. Only a handful of countries will still have this service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/nokia-calls-it-quit-on-ovi-music-unlimited-on-most-countries\/11x0117b35v77\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?fit=600%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"11x0117b35v77\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?fit=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?fit=600%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16593 aligncenter\" title=\"11x0117b35v77\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?resize=539%2C377\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/11x0117b35v77.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->BTW, this service is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com.sg\/services-and-apps\/entertainment\/nokia-music\" target=\"_blank\">Comes with Music but has been changed to Ovi Music Unlimited<\/a>. I guess it is not popular due to DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this service still continues in some countries. An excerpt from Reuters,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nokia will continue to sell phones with 12-month  subscription to free music downloads in China, India and Indonesia and  with 6-month subscriptions in Brazil, Turkey and South Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those that still have the subscription, you can still enjoy the music until subscription ends. Nevertheless, Nokia still continues to offer DRM-free tracks through its music store in 38 countries.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE70G1YE20110117\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read from Reuters<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/01\/17\/nokia-shuts-down-ovi-music-unlimited-service-in-most-markets-ci\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia has made the announcement that they will be pulling the plug on free music bundled with mobile phones  in 27 countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1509,4,5,14],"tags":[420,2718,124,167,4336],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-information","category-mobile","category-techie","tag-drm","tag-drm-free","tag-nokia","tag-ovi","tag-ovi-music-unlimited"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-4jC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16594,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions\/16594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}