First Blackberry had problems with the Indian government, and now Nokia seems to be going to join the party. This time the issue is caused by the feature of the Nokia devices known as “push email service.”

“In view of the Intelligence Bureau’s report, Department of Telecommunications is requested to advice the Telecom Service Providers not to launch Nokia’s proposed pushmail/powermail service without putting in place monitoring facilities to the satisfaction of the LEAs,” was stated by the Ministry of Home Affairs of India in a message directed to the Department of Telecom.

The main thing is that more than the half of Nokia’s E-series devices have already been sold with the service on, this means that the users might be required to return their devices and get them back only after the service is officially turned off. There are even rumors that Nokia started to sell the current devices without this feature, unless the situation is solved.

The only way to avoid this situation is to push Nokia to satisfy the requirements of the Indian government. Blackberry, which had the same problem, is still struggling against the claim. They do not consider the idea of giving more access to the message exchange to the government to be a proper one. And it’s quite reasonable. This is just a mean of violating the rights of the customers.

So far Nokia didn’t give an official response to the situation. But it’s obvious that the manufacturer cannot avoid having one. Let’s just wait for more news.

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Last week, Nokia invited visitors to their site to vote for one of the three sketches of the “perfect smartphone” offered by the Finnish corporations. Today the company released results of the user vote. The opinion was expressed by about 18 thousand people. Of these, more than 7 thousand selected the following versions:

The Nokia noted that many users pointed to the similarity of patterns imprinted on the sketches with some already existing devices. Finnish designers explain this by saying that they wanted to retain the features common to call the device of Nokia brand.

As the representatives of corporations, some members of the project Design by Community also expressed regret that among the sketches there are no smartphones in the style of E-series or with a sliding QWERTY-keyboard, as in Nokia N97. Nevertheless, in March, most users have voted for a smartphone with large touch screen and virtual keyboard.

Traditionally, business-smart phones of Nokia, belonging to the E-series, have QuickOffice, which allows you to work with office documents. Owners of these devices can freely upgrade it to the sixth version of QuickOffice.

That version of QuickOffice, which is included in the standard software of E51, E52, E55, E63, E71, E72, E75 and E90 smartphone cannot edit Office 2007 software package documents. Quickoffice 6 has this option, along with support for ZIP-archives, the opportunity to work with password-protected files, diagrams, and a number of other improvements.
Quickoffice 6 upgrade for the owners of the abovementioned smartphones is absolutely free. Use the Quickmanager application in order to update the software. At the moment, Quickoffice 6 is available only in English, but in the near future it will have localized versions.