Wednesday, October 17, 2012

New email Nokia uses technology from Yahoo

Note that the main companies involved with mobile devices have their own email services. Microsoft has Hotmail / Outlook.com, Google offers the excellent Gmail. Nokia enters into this harvest in partnership with Yahoo to create a Nokia Mail. Free, allows the user to create a @nokiamail.com.

If my calculations are correct, the Nokia Mail gives the surfer exactly infinite space to store messages. At least that's how Yahoo works today: unlimited space, so they say. Quite different from competitors Hotmail and Gmail, both with something close to 10 GB of messages and attachments.

The registration email from Nokia is fast. Question name, date of birth and little data beyond that. Nothing CPF, for example. After the first login is clear that the Finnish company ceded the field nokiamail.com for Yahoo. The header of the site say that the evidence is "powered by Yahoo Mail." Furthermore, the webmail itself carries within a subdomain of yahoo.com.

It is not the first time that the technology gives Yahoo email for Nokia. Previously, the suite of Ovi services had OviMail with the same proposal. As you know, Nokia closed the Ovi services and adopted different nomenclature (usually "Nokia" followed by the type of service, as in "Nokia Store" or "Nokia Maps").

What Nokia Mail offers different? Absolutely nothing. It would be nice if served to log into Windows Phone, an account system that requires Microsoft to work. I doubt very much that the manufacturer reached an agreement with Microsoft for this type of integration. Hands are tied.

The Nokia Mail login gives access to Nokia Chat.