I feel that Nokia missed a huge opportunity with Ovi Contacts.

I am from Nigeria (but live in the UK). In Nigeria there are no contracts with free calls and the cost of calls is ridiculously expensive. Every single person buying a phone now gets a blackberry because they can communicate on blackberry chat for free instead of spending tons on calls. If they want to meet up with friends, etc they just use Blackberry Messanger. I have heard that there are other developing countries that the situation is similar.

The thing is these are all millions and millions of people that are buying new devices because of chat. But guess what phone almost all these people had before? Nokias!!! If Nokia had found a way to include a free chat programme on their phones then these people won't have had to replace their Nokias and new users would have been considering getting Nokias. Now it is a no brainer. Absolutely no one in Nigeria will buy a Nokia phone now instead of a blackberry. And we are talking about a market of around 30 million people (with some people with up to three blackberries). If you add in a similar situation in the South American countries and other African countries then you see how much of a lost opportunity it is.

However, to be honest I am not surprised that Nokia missed such an opportunity. No matter what fans may say Nokia has not been known for much innovation recently.

As for the iphone the media player is a million times