Kotisivut could be set to come under assault by Finnish mobile giants Nokia, with the Nokia E72 enterprise smartphone set to hit the shelves concentrating on the female consumer populace. Nokia is aiming to appeal to functioning girls to the smartphone, increasing its industry share in the organization industry to contend with BlackBerry/RIM.
BlackBerry seems to be growing its personal market share in the non-business marketplace, with 50 % of all BlackBerry consumers captivated to the Pearl and Curve handsets which have taken the industry by storm.
The two BlackBerry and Nokia appear eager to crack the hybrid buyer-organization market, with a want to appeal to consumers with aesthetically pleasing designs as nicely as providing productive cell functioning applications.
Canalys analyst Tim Shepherd explained: “They have realised that splitting consumer compared to business doesn’t make sense.
“It is obvious that specialist users have a specific set of requirements but they also have customer requirements too. Nokia and RIM have both addressed that, creating units these kinds of as the E72 and the Curve that concentrate on equally sectors.”
Effective businesswomen, Karen Brady, former Managing Director at Birmingham City Soccer Club and Savannah Miller, founder of fashion label Twenty8Twelve, are to act as marketers and ambassadors for the Nokia E72 as Nokia engages in a social media marketing campaign.
The relevance of marketing BlackBerry mobile phones to girls personnel has performed a considerable part in the way RIM has created smartphones a lot more obtainable in terms of handsets, designs and apps as opposed to attractive ‘girly’ colours that have been used as a marketing and advertising tool in the past.