Until the End of the Year, Nokia Still Have 10 Mobile Again

In order for market share was eroded, PT Nokia Indonesia will spend about five to 10 new products in the rest of the year 2010.

Legi Soegianto, Product Manager of Nokia said, competition in the mobile industry is extremely tight to make the company must release a minimum of two products per month. It said intense competition has been underway since last year.

"Besides, we also have to adjust to market needs both new users and who want to replace the cell phone," said Legi to Kontan, Friday (9/3/2010).

So far, Nokia has released approximately 15 new products. That way, the total new model that Nokia released this year reached 20 models to 25 models. Some Nokia phones throughout 2010 including the X5, X2, C1, C6, C3, D5, and D3. All new phones are targeting all segments, ranging from the lower middle segment up to the top. This is reflected in the price of Nokia phones that range from Rp 300,000 to Rp 5.6 million per unit.

In the near future the company will release this month and N8 E5 next month. E5 is a business phone that offers a quick-office applications. There are also features push-mail, chat, and camera 5 megapixel (mp). To support their work, this phone is also equipped with internal memory of 250 megabits (MB), the external memory 2 gigabit (GB), and 32 MB microSD. This phone will be sold in the range of USD 2 million per unit.

The N8 is a mobile high-tech high-end mobile phones with camera 12 MP. "This will be a 12 MP camera phone with the first in the portfolio of Nokia," said Legi promote. This camera also implement HDMI technology that allows video capture clearer. Consumers can also edit videos on the phone or even connect with a PC. Applications Dolby speakers also made clear phone voice. N8 will be sold in the range of Rp 5 million per unit.

With the pounding the market with a total of about 20 models up to 25 new models, Nokia is optimistic this year could maintain its position as market leader. "Our market share is still above 30 percent this year and we hope to survive the market leader," said Legi

Saudi Arabia Blocking BlackBerry Service

As planned earlier, the Government of Saudi Arabia finally started to stop the BlackBerry services or Blackberry applications starting on Friday (06/08/2010). A number of users in the country reported that the BlackBerry service started not working since Friday morning.

"I sure the BlackBerry services to have stopped," said one user in Jeddah, as reported by AFP. The average users began to realize that his BlackBerry device is no longer functioning as usual since 9:00 pm local time.

Earlier, on Tuesday, the Saudi Arabian telecommunication regulator has asked the three mobile operators that serve to halt BlackBerry smartphone service from this Friday. The reason, the BlackBerry service does not meet the regulatory requirements set by the government can not monitor the content of messages that are distributed among BlackBerry users.

All transmitted data is encrypted on the BlackBerry service with a highly secure and managed from a server in Canada. With this causes, make difficulties Saudi Arabian authorities to monitor the possibility of abuse that could be considered threatening state security.

Saudi Arabia steps undertaken only difference five days after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said the same reason. A new BlackBerry smartphone in the UAE will be banned starting next October 11, 2010 and still awaiting response BlackBerry providers, Research In Motion (RIM), Canada. Blocking BlackBerry will also be conducted by the Government of India. Then where else the state will block the Blackberry?