Mobile Life in Ireland & Beyond

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

some more thoughts on Nokia Email Service Vs Blackberry

As another point to note so far the beta allows 6 email addresses to be added in the NOKIA setup, while Blackberry currently has 10. Blackberry wins just cause they offer more? Or is it a sign of a more advanced system that can handle more for less?

Pricing. This is gonna be a big issue, with the price of some nokia "machines" going to the ridiculous extremes of near laptop prices, is nokia gonna charge for this Email service? They should not. This will only slow their market share if not stop it increasing altogether (maybe they do not care about that) .
This will reduce a very good "mobile product retort" to blackberry in its tracks. Think of this particularly when users are already being ripped of by Mobile service providers (MSP's) and high handset prices. For nokia, the business model they have behind this is all important for success, and sometimes in order to claw back, Nokia should take a small hit not the consumer.

Connectivity. Some people are having problems with connections with their nokia phones, Blackberry does this seamlessly, from Wifi one second on to the MSP's service with out you even noticing. Nokia does not do this smoothly sometimes. In fact sometimes, you just want to smash the nokia to pieces.

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