New Nokia phone offers chat
Mobile phone power Nokia has released a cell phone-based chat system in Europe aimed at taking part of the lucrative Instant Messaging market popularized by AOL. The Nokia FriendsTalk service is being marketed at young and first-time cell phone buyers who are most likely to use chat features. It is based on the Short Messaging System, the most popular text-message system in the world, currently logging nearly 8 billion messages a month, mostly outside the U.S. It is not known when Nokia intends to offer the service in the U.S., but AOL and Microsoft have announced plans to bring instant messaging services to cell phones and BlackBerry pagers. Others are working on linking Internet instant messaging networks directly to cell phone networks.
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