Nokia Plans Rival to BlackBerry to Exploit `Cloud' of Lawsuit
The world's largest mobile-phone maker is courting customers of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry for a combination phone and e-mail device, coming out next quarter. Nokia is exploiting concern that the service may be shut down in the U.S. amid a patent dispute.
``People are looking for some alternatives,'' Mary McDowell, a Nokia senior vice president, said in an interview in New York. The patent lawsuit has ``been a cloud over RIM.''
Nokia wants to create its own class of fans, similar to the users from Wall Street to Silicon Valley who nicknamed Research In Motion's device the ``CrackBerry'' and crouch over the pagers on trains and airplanes. McDowell says the Espoo, Finland-based company's E61 device will win over some of the 650 million people with business e-mail accounts worldwide by giving them access to messages on the go....
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