This makes sense to me, but I'm a bit annoyed about the IM solution. Does this mean Ovi Chat won't be Jabber anymore? That sucks. On the other hand, it was useless to me because all my friends were on MSN or Facebook chat , so not a huge loss in that sense. (But I was hoping it would become popular.)

It also raises a big question: since Nokia didn't do this two years ago, what were they hoping to accomplish by making their own email service instead of outsourcing the backend in the first place? Has some big part of their strategy failed or did they realize replicating things in house was stupid?