Nokia seems to have taken the challenge from new entrants very very seriously. While everyone was expecting nokia to play catch-up, they have just gone ahead and rewritten the rules of the game. And trust me the internet is not going to be the same after the Nokia World 2008. With the launch of the Nokia N97 and Nokia Messaging, Nokia has truely changed the way we communicate.

There is a large percentage of the world population that does not have access to a PC. However around 2/3 rd of the entire global population is expected to have an access to a mobile phone in the near future. The Nokia messaging solution intends to bring the greatest product of the internet, the email, to this vast consumer base. Nokia Messaging will give millions of consumers access to email and IM accounts from Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Google Talk, and AOL Mail as well as email solutions from thousands of ISPs around the world on the majority of Nokia devices.

You can read expert reviews of nokia messaging here and here