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Best of 2008 in Services – Mobile email and Mail on Ovi

By Charlie on 02 January 2009

GLOBAL – It always felt to me that we just weren’t getting it right with mobile email. Well, that was before this year, a year when Nokia really grasped the mobile email beast by the neck and wrestled it into something really good.

To start with, there has been a long beta period around Nokia Email before it went open, studying how folks use the service and providing a better mobile mail experience. We caught up with the product folks to learn more about this.

But there were a lot more shifts at Nokia around email, with far-ranging repercussions.

For one, Nokia exited the corporate mobile email software business. The model moving forward is to partner with vendors, as they have successfully done with Microsoft with Mail for Exchange. Next, Nokia picked up a leading mobile messaging company, Oz.

And, finally, the biggest move was Mail on Ovi, which is bringing email to the masses. A service equally easy to use from the large screen or small screen web, the expectation is that Mail on Ovi will be the first and only email service for many mobile phone users who do not have a PC but are itching to joining the Hyperconnected Age.

Really looking forward to what next year brings for Mail on Ovi.

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Image from Pink Sherbert Photography

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Renegade Fanboy Says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 am

The most exciting news about Mail on Ovi is the potential user base. I really hope that it will grow Ovi to tens-of-millions size…

CarloS Silva Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 4:06 am

I just can’t wait to have Mail on ovi available for S60 and PC access! ^^

Donovan Says:
January 17th, 2009 at 12:02 am

Strange that the author state “Really looking forward to what next year brings for Mail on Ovi.” This article was published Jan 9/09 – it seems though as it was written earlier. So I belive the author meant looking forward in 2009 not 2010.

Also strange that no research on how this exit from the corporate world ignored the Novell GroupWise platform which is client of Nokia E-Series & IntelliSync for their OWN personal business. I blogged about this information 40days ago. Also this exit allowed for Lotus Traveler for S60 deal to be signed the 2nd major corporate email service from IBM, Lotus Domino & Notes. Still curious if I can do this research & open minds, why my blog never gets featured?!