Blogbite-NW09 GLOBAL – Each week we condense the best of the last seven days on Conversations into a single tasty Blogbite-flavoured morsel of easy-to-digest listening. Prick up your ears and read on to find out what our latest Blogbite has to offer, plus find out more about the Blogbite buffet we’ll be serving up at Nokia World 09.

Ovi Mail hits 1 million users

GLOBAL – In a little over six months over one million users have signed up for an Ovi Mail account. With the top five countries including India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Africa its clear the idea of on-device email set up and use is proving to be hugely popular in developing countries. This is a great milestone for the team behind Ovi Mail and evidence that the service launch is timely and fulfilling a definite need. Only 25 per cent of the global population are on email right now – Ovi Mail is designed for the other 75 per cent. Ovi Mail users need never touch a PC yet can be completely connected to the online world through their mobile device.
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Ovi Mail – Email for everyone

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Nokia 2730 classic launches – cheapest 3G phone

GLOBAL – The Nokia 2730 classic is the new entry level 3G phone sporting some killer looks and great features. With a 2-inch QVGA display, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and Stereo FM radio, the device will be well equipped to handle anything thrown at it, and with 3G connectivity on board, it’ll make for a handy door to the Internet, too.
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Nokia 2720 fold delivers top design for 55 Euros

ESPOO, Finland – Just as the trickle-down effect of innovative mobile technology is flowing into mid-range and entry level handsets, today’s unveiling of the new Nokia 2720 fold, which will launch in the third quarter of 2009 for around 55 Euros, highlights how top-class design can be tailored for emerging markets at a price that makes style available to all.

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250,000 Ovi Mail users in four months

GLOBAL – “We just put it up there, and more than a quarter of a million people signed up”. So said Purnima Kochikar, director of consumer messaging at Nokia, in a speech to developers this morning at the Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. And that’s just in four months, with little or no marketing behind the service.

Ovi Mail is designed as a consumer email service where the users don’t need to access a PC to set up an account – the whole thing can be done right there on the device. And it shows too, as the service was designed mostly for those of us who don’t have ready access to a computer, and aims to help the other part of the world to get online and connected. The result? 10 of the top 12 countries using the service are emerging markets.

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Email with ease, in India

INDIA – Nokia India has created a handy website, emailwithease.com, to help users there get to grips with mobile email. Focusing on the soon to launch E75, the site walks users through a host of scenarios to highlight the benefits of mobile email. It also provides a range of how to videos, to show how easy it is to complete a range of mobile email related tasks.
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Mail on Ovi beta – an inbox for everyone

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Hottest Nokia topics for 2009

GLOBAL – So, what’s going to be hot this year? Well, we’re no astrologers, but to be fair, it doesn’t take a genius to work out what will be tripping off the tongues of folks around Nokia, and the wider Nokia community, this year. We’ve been scratching our heads, and come up with our little list. Feel free to add yours at the end. Full rundown, after the jump.