Nokia: Philippines to be #1 in Mobile Email

There’s a promotion currently ongoing in the Philippines where sign ups for Mail on Ovi will get you free Internet time. Sadly, the promotion is only for new Ovi sign ups: from May 15 to June 14, 2009, those who open a new Ovi Mail account in select Netopia internet cafés will get 30 minutes free internet usage at said cafe!

Mail on Ovi can be used by entry level Nokia phones to create and access your email from your mobile phone. According to a recent press conference, Nokia general manager William Hamilton-Whyte said that the Philippines, apart from being the texting capital of the world has the same potential to be the mobile email capital. It is just a matter of educating the masses in the use of mobile email as they can use this as an upgrade to SMS.