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DiVitas is Best Deal on Mobile UC Thanks to AT&T’s One-Cent Price on Nokia E71x

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 by Richard Watson

Starting this month, $199 – the previous low for a much coveted iPhone – has become downright expensive for a smartphone. AT&T is now offering the Nokia E71x for one cent through Amazon, redefining the phrase, “world’s most affordable smartphone” and making it a hard-to-resist purchase for consumers and business users alike.

This news in turn makes DiVitas – the only Mobile Unified Communications vendor certified by AT&T to support the Nokia E71x – the world’s most affordable Mobile UC solution. DiVitas was recently named as an AT&T Fast Pitch award winner, and has also earned an elite placement in AT&T’s catalogue of certified partners.

News of the mind-blowing, one-penny price tag comes just weeks after the E71x wowed reviewers with its affordable $99.99 price tag. Even at around 100 bucks, the E71x was a lot of phone for the price.

Reviewers at CNET (where users gave the E71x four out of five stars) highlighted the phone’s slim design, full QWERTY keyboard, voice-guided GPS, digital camera and Web browser, saying, “AT&T made an attractive device even more attractive by giving the Nokia E71x a $99.99 (with two-year contract) price tag. It's a great value, especially compared to AT&T's other QWERTY smartphones, such as the Samsung Epix and RIM BlackBerry Bold, considering what you get and the quality of the phone's design.”

Knocking the price-of-E71x-ownership down further, users aren’t required to pay for a monthly data plan, which is unusual for a smartphone purchase. Eliminating the $40ish per/user monthly data plan is a key benefit for organizations such as universities where many employees only require a mobile phone during the business day. Administrative staffers, for example, have access to the campus WLAN while they are at work, allowing them to use the E71x in WiFi-mode to place calls, send email or IM, or update their Presence Status Message. They don’t need to be available after business hours, and with the E71x they now have an affordable single-mode option.

According to Amazon:

Nokia E71x Phone, Black (AT&T)