Like me if you have been using Nokia’s email solution, Nokia Messaging Service, you must be loving (and hating it at times) the ability of it to view your email on the phone itself almost instantaneously as it comes to your email box.
Well come December, this service is going to cost you. Nokia Messaging from December will become a paid service on a select few networks. Also going to be released soon is an S40 client, since there are more S40 phones sold than S60. I remember that NMS product manager had said long time back that it would remain an S60 exclusive service. But, I’m glad to know it will be moving to S40, a platform which needs to be accepted as a platform for the masses.
I do have a few questions though, about NMS going paid, like what happens to the E75 owners who got a free lifetime subscription to Nokia Messaging Service, will they have to pay for it now? or does it still remain free?
Will the pre-paid (pay as you go) customer be also included in the scheme of things, or will he be thought to be just a voice and SMS based user? I’ve heard that the service is expected to undercut BlackBerry’s email offering of INR 299 per month, offered by most of the service operators in India.
Leave your comments down below and let us know what your views are on this.
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nokia must not charge if they want to compete with black berry becoz most of the people today buy blackberry becasue of its intant messaging service….
well @DIGITINDIA on twitter has written about it, and someone from the inside has also told me this…
its wounderful application with userfriendly and most advanced feature. GO FOR IT !!! Even if its getting paid.
I have used it until two days ago (nokia messaging)and generally it works fine but i think its a robbery to oblige people to pay it (my network wants me to pay it) so i turn myself to another solution which its more simple but it works, EMOZE:
http://www.emoze.com/
I just hope it remains free, its a shame networks and nokia change their policy and start exploiting their clients, people must unite and say no to this shameful attitude (they are rich enough already)
Manuel Tavares from PORTUGAL
I don’t think that in near future NMS can kill blackberry mail as Blackberry email solution is much more robust and secure apart from data compression technology.
NMS can become popular if nokia can armtwist operators to give it at Rs.99 flat against Rs.299 plan of blackberry. Nokia looking at its size can surly do it and it will be interesting to see how blackberry responds to such a move as NMS is still not the best solution for corporate emails.
Nokia with its vast range of phones though can connect to millions of customers for personal email I’d’s or small organisations email I’d using domain of likes of google, rediff etc.
It will be interesting to see how NMS helps in growing the category and hence better and affordable solutions from blackberry too
just for your info, corporate email ids work just as well on the NMS…. i have tried it with my office email id…
umm i just found out about NMS and want to know whether it has BBM kinda service and can one add bb user’s pins and stay connected through NMS? im confused… :s im currently a bb user and just want to know about the new e72!
No it does not work that way….
BB and Nokia work differently… I wish that were possible, but I doubt that until BB come out with a client for Nokia devices….