Nokia announced a new enterprise device this week, adding an enhanced candy-bar style device to the bottom end of its E series. The new E51 is, as the nomenclature suggests, an enhancement to the bottom-of-the-range E50, adding HSDPA and WiFi connectivity as well as improved usability features. Here are Jeremy Green, principal analyst at Ovum comments on the new device:
"The E51 is a nice device, good-looking, and easy to understand and use. That said it's not mould-shattering or category-creating."
"On the more positive side, Nokia has made some small but worthwhile additions to the user interface."
"Nokia also took the opportunity to share some of its other insights about the enterprise mobility market. Nokia continues to work towards both a standards-based approach and a proprietary solution."
"Almost as an aside, Nokia also admitted that the raison d'etre of its soon-to-be-reorganised enterprise mobility division was a conviction that it was possible to approach enterprises independently of the mobile network operator - and that this conviction has turned out to be wrong."
