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Microsoft Exchange Now Supported On All S60 3rd Edition Handsets
Published by Ewan Spence at 10:10 BST, September 10th 2008
Every S60 3rd edition handset will now be able to run the Mail for Exchange application, Nokia have announced. That's a total of 43 handsets,across the Nseries, Eseries and regular S60 range. With MS-Exchange a popular corporate mail and syncing solution, removing the software barriers to any S60 device being able to run this application is a sensible move, and should help in a number of markets, including the USA. Read the full story for a video discussing the news.
From the Press Release...
"This announcement with Nokia further demonstrates the importance consumers and businesses place on accessing Exchange Server data from mobile devices in addition to traditional desktop clients." Terry Myerson, Corporate Vice President, Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp.
"The Nokia-Microsoft collaboration to bring corporate mobile email to businesses and mobile professionals is truly unbeatable. No other device manufacturer provides the wide range of devices that we have which immediately mobilize the hundreds of millions of email accounts from Microsoft Exchange." Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Markets, Nokia.
Must say I don't really see the point in corporate phones and personal phones - E-series and N-series.
Just make different models - qwerty keyboard for heavy emailers / sms users. People's jobs and lives are so diverse the corporate / personal divide is not correct
Photo-centric phones - many people use these for work but some business don't allow camera phones are work.
Music on your phone? Whilst most people can't listen to music at work they do listen to work on the tube/bus/train on the way to work.
Bit of reality check Nokia - life isn't like the pictures in your brochures... haha
Unregistered
so we are waitning only for html-email support in S60, and the job is done :-)
Unregistered
oh yeah -- no html email. wtf?
viipottaja
To Unregistered: well, the fact that they are announcing this for all phones is another illustration that Nokia does understand your point too. But that does not mean they should not ALSO have phones that are marketed to enterprises ("by 10,000 of these instead of those nasty Blackberries and you'll have a unified platform and we'll give you all the support you want") directly. Individual consumers will do whatever they want.
Unregistered
Good news, but please please please fix up the email setup wizard. It is so confusing!!!!!!!!! It took 2 IT guys more 8 try to set it up on a new E71....
Also I am not able to get the app using one of these suggested methods in the press release:
"Nokia owners whose companies use Exchange can set up Mail for Exchange for free on their devices in various ways without paying additional services or subscription fees – from the email set-up plug-in on the home screen, by launching the application from the Download! folder, or via the Settings Wizard."
gdigenis
I am happy that nokia is doing this, but i think they need to step up their customer service so that they can actually help us when we have a problem using mfe. When i ran into issues using mfe i learned the hard way that phone support wont help and email support is just as poor at nokia. I could not even get a suggestion from nokia when posting questions in their forums.