Originally Posted by fms

I am surprised that not a single person so far has gone beyond the standard subsidized-handset-for-consumers approach here. With its capabilities and the price tag, N900 is a business device, very much like HTC Touch Pro 2. So, by marketing and selling it to large businesses, with volume discounts, you may have to avoid the pesky iphone-dominated consumer market, while increasing your market share where it counts: premium do-it-all devices for business customers, from inventory terminals, to shipment trackers with built-in navigation, to blackberry replacements.

Originally Posted by texaslabrat

Unfortunately, taking on the entrenched crack-berry mindset is an even steeper hill to climb than taking on the consumer-based iphone market. While I agree with you in principal, it's convincing cfo's and it managers (most of whom think business phone = blackberry, period) to get on board that's the problem.

Originally Posted by ysss

"The N900 looks promising; unfortunately, Nokia is selling it at a fatal price of $649. That's the price of three iPhone 3GSes, plus tax. If T-Mobile picks it up, they might subsidize it, but even a $250 subsidy brings it down to $400 - more in netbook range than in smartphone range."

Originally Posted by tso

from what i understand, one thing that makes blackberry blackberry is remote wipe and control of available actions. from what i can tell, the control of the n900 will in the hands of the owner/user, as much as nokia could make it.

Originally Posted by fms

Well, in this case it is easier, as N900 clearly has different set of features than crackberry: it has got a much bigger and nicer screen and a bigger keyboard to go with it. Once you implement push email from corporate Exchange servers to N900, you have got a valid offer to make to the suits. Besides, there is way more to N900 business use cases than simply a crackberry replacement.