Friday, 12 September 2008

Nokia Expands Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Offering

Nokia this week announced that it has extended Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to all Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices bringing the total number of Nokia devices featuring the mobile email application to 43- making its device range the largest ever to enable the solution chosen by more businesses than any other messaging solution.

Parallel to this announcement, Nokia also revealed that it has decided to make Mail for Exchange available out-of-the-box in future releases of its Eseries and Nseries devices.

"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," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Markets, Nokia.

"The costs of mobility are contained as companies are able to utilize existing Microsoft Exchange infrastructure, and there is also the strong possibility that a large number of employees already have one or more of the 43 Nokia devices that enable Exchange ActiveSync."

Microsoft Exchange Server is the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging which boasts features such as Autodiscover, which simplifies the set-up process by requiring the email account holder to only enter their email address, password, domain and usernames; 'Out of Office' messaging, enabling busy professionals to set their out-of-office messages directly from their Nokia device, synchronization when roaming, a must-have feature for travelling businesspeople and also Flag status for follow-ups.

While the Exchange ActiveSync protocol is compatible with many types of devices, Nokia said its device users will have access to features that are currently not available in other Exchange ActiveSync licensees' devices such as setting email priorities, alerts for meeting request conflicts, a standalone global address list application to search for a colleague's contact details quickly and downloading and editing all types of attachments.