Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a new phone for corporate users and said it still expects to fast growth in the mobile e-mail market.Nokia said the E51, a classic "candy bar"-shaped phone model, will be globally available later this year and retail for $485, excluding subsidies and taxes.
Nokia's enterprise unit, which turned a profit in the last quarter after years of losses, was helped by the success of the company's E65 phone model.
Designed to integrate securely with office PBX systems, the E51 also includes a 2-megapixel camera, FM radio and Nokia browser. The E51 is compatible voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) broadband applications such as Gizmo, available through the Nokia Download application included on the phone.
The unit has been hoping to benefit from the runaway success of Research In Motion's BlackBerry models, but it noted that only 2 percent of corporate e-mail accounts are mobile--a situation similar to that of a couple years ago.
"We believe it will change quickly," Antti Vasara, head of device business at Nokia's enterprise unit, told a news conference.
Vasara said that by 2009 there should be
"Less and less, people are bound to their desks while doing their work," he said.
