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New service for consumer email and instant messaging on Nokia
devices, along with Ovi email address for email and cross access to
other Ovi services from a mobile phone or a PC
Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today announced the launch of Nokia
Messaging, which mobilizes consumer email and consumer instant
messaging (IM) solutions on Nokia devices. Nokia Messaging will give
millions of consumers access to email and IM accounts from Yahoo!
Mail® and Yahoo! Messenger®, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Google
Talk, and AOL Mail as well as email solutions from thousands of ISPs
around the world on the majority of Nokia devices. Nokia also
introduced the online portal for Mail on Ovi, which will enable PC
users to create and access Ovi email accounts as well as gain cross
access to other Ovi services with just a single sign-on account.
"We believe everybody should have mobile messaging - it's not a
privilege service that's meant only for a certain segment of the
market. With Nokia Messaging, our customers can simply and affordably
gain mobile access to the world's most popular email and IM accounts.
We are making mobile messaging an affordable experience for everyone,
not just for those with specialized phones designed for messaging,
but for everyone with a Nokia device. In response to overwhelming
consumer feedback that messaging is a critical, must-have feature,
Nokia has responded with solutions to bring messaging to the broadest
range of devices and to ensure the service works with the most
popular messaging services in the market. Windows Live Hotmail,
Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, email accounts provided by thousands of ISPs
around the world, and even brand new Nokia-provided email accounts,
can now be accessed from mobile phones with a few simple clicks,
directly from the home-screen," said Tom Furlong, Senior Vice
President, Consumer Messaging, Services & Software, Nokia.
Mail on Ovi
Nokia announced the introduction of web access to Mail on Ovi, which
gives users 1GB of storage space and spam filters to block unwanted
emails. Creating a Mail on Ovi account will give users access to
their email, as well as cross access to other Ovi services, both on
the mobile phone and on the PC. The beta version of Mail on Ovi will
roll out globally in December 2008 in 12 languages, including
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali,
Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia on all currently
shipping Nokia Series 40 devices, with many more languages to be
added later. The web access version will launch in February 2009.
Nokia Messaging
Nokia Messaging will launch commercially in the first quarter of 2009
in Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain,
the United Kingdom and Venezuela, and in select countries later in
the year. Agreements with key operators will establish Nokia
Messaging as an operator supported service so that users who purchase
a data plan that includes Nokia Messaging will be able to take full
access of the built-in push email and IM access without additional
service charges.
The Nokia Messaging push email service is available today for free as
a limited-period beta trial. Owners of popular Nokia S60 devices such
as Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 can immediately go to email.nokia.com and
install the service on their devices. Nokia Messaging is an email
application that's been designed from the ground up to support mobile
email. The application makes it simple to set-up the email account -
all users have to enter are their email address and password, and
emails are seamlessly pushed to their mobile device. Nokia Messaging
also makes it simple to read, send, forward and reply to emails,
download and read attachments, and attach files to emails directly on
the Nokia device.
Nokia Messaging is immediately available on a wide range of Nokia S60
devices to mobilize consumer email. Instant messaging and support for
Nokia Series 40 devices will be enabled in the second half of 2009.
With Nokia Messaging and Mail on Ovi together, Nokia will enable
consumers with and without email accounts to experience mobile email
as a standard part of the Nokia device experience. To date, Nokia has
shipped about 200 million devices that immediately enable the launch
of its messaging solutions, including Nokia Messaging, Mail on Ovi
and corporate mobile email (Microsoft Exchange Activesync).
For more information and materials on Nokia World 2008 event and
announcements, please visit:
http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld
www.nokia.com/press/nokiaworld08
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.
Media Enquiries:
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
Email: press.services@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
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