Nokia Adding Lotus Notes Support to Symbian S60

Nokia and IBM have announced that official support for Lotus Notes is coming to a number of Nokia's S60-based phones.

This will allow users to connect to corporate email accounts via the Lotus Domino Server software known as Lotus Notes Traveler. This provides real time access to email, calendar, address book, journal, and to-do list data.

While other corporate email servers often get more attention, there are 140 million licensed users of IBM's Lotus Notes. And those in this group with with smartphones running Symbian S60 3rd Edition will be able to access their business-related information when on the go.

"This collaboration means nearly 90 percent of business email can be mobilized with Nokia devices, without needing to purchase additional servers, middleware, or licenses," says Soren Petersen, senior vice president, Nokia. Clearly, Petersen is contrasting his company's products with RIM's BlackBerry devices, which depend on BlackBerry Servers for corporate email.

Nokia already offers support for Exchange ActiveSync, a similar service for Microsoft-based email servers.

The Lotus Notes synchronization software for Nokia devices will be released in December.

There are third-party solutions that offer this feature already on the market, like the recently-announced mNotes.

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