Nokia splashed on the dough to announce the launch of their new music subscription service that is tagged to the Nokia mobile phone, called Comes with Music. Basic premise is buy a new supported Nokia mobile phone, you will get an access to millions of music you can download for free (data charges apply if songs are downloaded on the mobile) and even when your subscription expired after 12 months, you get to keep the tracks. Caveat is the DRM applies on the downloaded track, tying you down to one mobile and ONE computer. Yes, ONE computer.

That is worse than iTunes’ Fairplay DRM (no more when Apple went DRM-Free) which was limited to 5 PCs and any number of registered iPods.

And if you are a Mac user thinking of getting a new Nokia phone to tap the unlimited downloads of music, forget it. Nokia’s Music Store, which is where you get your music, will not work on a Mac.

You are better off getting an iPhone and registering yourself the US iTunes Music Store.

The first of many Singapore sites and web-services that are not Mac-friendly.

The Nokia Music Store, which was launched recently provides legal downloads of music for Singaporeans on their Windows PC and their Nokia Phones.

With people crying out for legal and DRM-free music downloads, there are still companies willing to go cahoot with greedy recording labels to tie their consumers down with draconian DRM measures.

For Mac users, Nokia Music Store will be a big FAIL.

Just in case you are still a Nokia Phone users and have not swapped for the iPhone, Nokia just released new iSync plugins for some of their newer phones – E50, E60, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E70, N76, N93i and N95.

They’re available free @ Nokia iSync Support page.