Unlocked Nokia 5800 ‘Comes With Music’ for £299 in UK

A week ago Nokia announced the ‘Comes With Music’ service coming on Nokia 5800 via Orange in UK. And now the news out is it will also be available ‘unlocked’ starting May-22 for just £299. The SIM-free version of the handset will initially be available at Nokia T5, Nokia Regent Street, as well as at Nokia’s online store.

You can also have an impressive 50% off if you are among the first 100 customers who will reach the Nokia’s Regent Street store in London between 12 noon and 1pm on 22nd May. You just need to bring an old mobile handset of any brand as well as one MP3 player (including ipod) to exchange them with the handset.

The Unlocked/ SIM free version comes with a 12 month Comes with Music ’subscription’ so that you can download an unlimited amount of music, from the Nokia Music Store, for one year. You can download music either on your desktop PC or on the device itself. At the end of the one-year subscription period you will keep all the music you have previously downloaded (although transfers to other devices are limited by DRM).

As we reported earlier that the Comes with Music version Nokia 5800 XpressMusic would be available exclusively via Orange, so you have the only option to get an unlocked one if you want the Nokia 5800 Comes With Music handset but don’t fancy the Orange contract that goes with it.

Apart from Orange, the handset is also due to be launched on Phones4U networks from 29th May on contract, with contract terms starting at £24.50 a month. Nokia 5800 is free of cost if you are signing up the contract.

So those of you who live in the UK should head on to the Regent Store or the Nokia Shop website on May 22 in case you wish to grab the Unlocked or SIM-Free version of 5800. Or wait for the Orange and Phones4U networks to start the sales on May-29 for the with-contract offers.