Asda Sells Mobile For £5

Asda sells mobile for £5

Asda is selling 50,000 bargain pay-and-go mobile handsets for a fiver - less than the price of their plastic dummy toy phones for toddlers.

From today, the store will offer the Nokia and Sagem products, with the price including a SIM card. Trading director Peter Pritchard said: "Shoppers are increasingly turning to pay as you go as a way of controlling their spending on mobiles.

Four types of phone are on offer - the Nokia 1112 and Sagem My212x, Sagem My220x, and Sagem My150x.Tariffs are on Virgin, T-Mobile and Orange.Asda, which reckons the phones will be snapped up in 24 hours, claims there are no hidden extras.Carphone Warehouse sells a Sony Ericsson J110i for a bargain £4.45. But customers are tied to buying at least £10 worth of credit.

Rival Tesco's lowest pay as you go deals include an LG Jaguar KG130 Pink for £9.97 and a Motorola F3 for £11.22.

Mr Pritchard said: "Buying technology can be confusing when shoppers are bombarded with half price contracts and free gifts.

"Many cheap pay as you go offers from other mobile phone retailers tie customers into paying for up to £50 worth of credit."

source:http://www.mirror.co.uk

Nokia signs Sony BMG for free music offering

Nokia will offer free 12-month access to music from artists of Sony BMG, the world's second-biggest label, to buyers of its particular music phones.Last December, Nokia unveiled a similar deal for its "Comes With Music" phones with the top record label Universal.

"Comes With Music is expected to launch in the second half of 2008 on a range of Nokia devices in selected markets," Nokia said in a statement.



Sony BMG, home to artists including Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen and Celine Dion, is jointly owned by Sony Corp and German media group Bertelsmann AG.

The new music offering from Nokia first cellphone maker to push heavily into content would differ from any other package on the market as users can keep all the music they have downloaded during the 12 months.Such unlimited download models could offer a shot in the arm to the music industry, which is struggling to find ways to make up for falling CD sales.

Nokia said it expects all top labels to sign up for "Comes With Music" offering."We are quite confident that we will have all the labels at the table for Comes With Music. We are progressing in those negotiations," said Liz Schimel, head of Nokia's music business.

source:http://www.reuters.com