After a several month-long
beta, Nokia's souped-up email app -- appropriately called Email -- is getting booted out of Beta Labs and going gold as part of the Messaging suite. The company is touting that the final product includes tons of changes that came from feedback through the beta cycle, and it'll be going live first in Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela -- in other words, you good folks will now be paying for the opportunity to use it. The remainder of the world gets to keep using it for free until it's commercialized in their locale -- which, if you're in the US and
Nokia Music is any indication, might be a
long time off.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fernando @ Dec 19th 2008 12:08AM
...and still no html!
Tor Slettnes @ Dec 19th 2008 12:57AM
Nokia are starting to behave more and more like a monopoly. Which, when it comes to smartphones, they essentially are in the world outside the US. So their strategy is:
1) Make the built-in Messaging/E-Mail application clumsy enough (e.g. no preloading of message content from the IMAP server, and no way to turn off the "Connect to mailbox?" prompt that appears when you go into your mailbox) that it becomes _just_ too cumbersome for the average user...
2) Charge a service fee for the usable version.
Brilliant! It also fits into their strategy of focusing less on devices, more on "services" and "total solutions" and other BS.
Farhan @ Dec 19th 2008 2:15AM
I've writen a detailed entry about Nokia and Ovi services covering OVI Maps and Mail on OVI kindly see and leave your comments
http://ourn958gb.blogspot.com/2008/12/ovi-life-connected.html
Seth @ Dec 19th 2008 3:40AM
Does anyone know how much it costs and if its a monthly charge or what? are you paying for software or a service? Will it be free on new handsets that already have the new software installed?
leeeevy @ Dec 19th 2008 4:29PM
For once I am very very happy that Nokia hates on North America and ignores the USA and Canada so I can continue using the program for probably quite a while before they start charging for it here in Canada. Hopefully we will have to wait for them to start charging for the Nokia Email program here just about as long as we have been waiting for a firmware update for the N95-3 LOL