Agence France Press reports that Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, is selling Nokia phones with direct links to its mobile content. DN subscribers can purchase the Nokia 6120 3-G phone on the paper's Web site. Then, after signing up for a 199-kronor ($31-dollar) monthly plan, they will be able to surf the daily's mobile Web site by simply pressing a special "DN" button on the faceplate.
The offer highlights the lengths that so-called "dead tree" media have to go to stay in the call flows of their local audiences. A newspaper spokesperson simply said that it is a matter of "removing obstacles" to subscribers accessing content on the mobile Web.