That’s it. Nokia’s had enough of RIM’s encroachment on their business-phone segment. Rather than allowing Nokia E-series customers to eat from both sides of the pond, to butcher a few metaphors, Nokia has announced that they’ll no longer support BlackBerry Connect support on their business-oriented Eseries handsets. RIM is
apparently doing well enough for themselves in the smartphone market that Nokia feels the two need to part ways and offer customers more options in email connectivity.
RIM are a competitor and have done a reasonable job in a space that is traditionally ours, so it’s no great surprise that we see this as an opportunity to give consumers a proper choice on what email solution they want.
Of course, the recently launched Nokia E71 is the latest smartphone to lack the BlackBerry Connect feature – leaving Nokia E71 owners left with only Nokia’s awkward and unrefined email client to do their email bidding. So, what is Nokia thinking in forcing their customers to choose either RIM’s superior BlackBerry email solution or the Finns’ email client? Nokia is likely preparing to push hard with their Nokia Email platform.
Nokia Email is still in beta, but Espoo is probably betting that they can polish the up-and-coming email solution to go head-to-head with RIM’s email solution. We’ll see. If things don’t go as planned, Nokia can always just run back to RIM.
[Via: Symbian-Guru]