Mobile Life in Ireland & Beyond

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Nokia adding lotus notes to email service.

Artice in the NY times here

This is strange, how many people use lotus notes for their email? is this to target the blackberry and its corporate clientele? because i dont know anyone that uses lotus notes.
see this quoute

"With this partnership we are able to mobilize close to 90 percent of corporate emails without any extra investments from corporations," Ilari Nurmi, VP at Nokia, told Reuters."

Which is fair enough, i guess, corporate will pay. could this also be behind the charging of blackberry for enterprise models? Corporate will spend more for these business centric services compared to the average.
Also according to this article, a very important piece of Data

"Some analysts have tapped smart phones as the market segment with the best hope for growth in 2009. In the third quarter Nokia sold 1.1 million of its new sleek, full-keyboard E71 phones, outselling RIM's business user-targeted Blackberry Bold by five-to-one, according to Nokia."

WOW! 5 to 1 - but this underestimates Americas market for phonage, remember in the USA, people have 18 month to 24 month contracts, and no one upgrades really due to poor offers. And the Blackberry Storm was just released. Which resembles the Iphone but with a more business pedigree.

Some have said that E63 is a blackberry beater!!! If its cheaper components and stripped, how can it?

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