SmartPhones

While corporate favorite BlackBerry continues to reach out to the general consumer market, with its MySpace app receiving 400,000 downloads since its launch less than two weeks ago, general consumer fave Nokia continues to reach out to the corporate enterprise, with its latest facility: support for IBM Lotus Notes.

First the BlackBerry: The Washington Post was stunned to find that more than 15 million MySpace messages had been sent over the BlackBerry mobile app, and more than 2 million moods and statuses had been updated.

Next Nokia: As of December, most Nokia S60 series handsets, including the S60 3rd Edition and the N96 Bruce Lee Special Edition, will be able to access their corporate email accounts through a new mobile app called Lotus Notes Traveler, catering to a market base IBM reports at 140 million plus licensed users.

Who will have more success cross-marketing their products in "the other guy's court"? Only time will tell.

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One IntoMobile writer took the time and care to publish a massive pictorial guide to the work of Finnish mobile wunderkinds Nokia over the past year. Starting with the company's release of the Nokia N76, Nokia N93i and Nokia N800 at the Consumer  Electronics Show in January and running through the eco-friendly Nokia 3110 Evolve (made with 50% recycled materials), each of the 37 cell phones and smartphones released by Nokia in 2007 is described in colorful words and pictures.

The article then goes to explore all of the mergers occurring 2007 involving Nokia, namely:

• Navteq
• Enpocket
• Twango
• Avvenu

Following that is a review of the Nokia World 2007 convention. At this point, it becomes abundantly apparent to anyone not already aware of it why Nokia holds approximately 40% of the world's cell phone market share.

The crackerjack prize at the bottom of this box, however, is the look ahead - one decidedly Nokia-savvy writer's predictions for the future of this company and its mobile products in 2008. From tentative praise for the Nokia S60 and the inclusion of touchscreen technology in Nokia smart phones to competition from RIM and, of course, the Apple iPhone, a picture of the upcoming year for Nokia is painted in all its crystal ball clarity.

What Nokia smartphone does the article's writer himself take with him into the coming year? The Nokia N82. Read the rest of the article at IntoMobile.

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