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Nokia and AIS to launch new mobile email solution Nokia Messaging (Thailand)

On 08.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia and AIS today announced their collaboration to offer the Nokia Messaging push-email service for AIS subscribers. The deal makes AIS the first operator in Thailand to offer Nokia Messaging, which supports all leading consumer email solutions, such as Ovi Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail as well as local email service providers.

“Services like Nokia Messaging contribute to easier mobile living for our customers, and we’re happy to be the first to deliver this service in Thailand. We believe our customers will find this service appealing, both in terms of user-friendliness and price,” says Mr. Somchai Lertsutthiwong, Executive Vice President – Marketing, AIS.

“Nokia wants to make mobile email available for as many people as possible, and the agreement with AIS is an important milestone. With Nokia Messaging, we meet people’s need for access to email whenever they want and wherever they want it,” says Mr. Shumit Kapoor, General Manager, Nokia (Thailand) Ltd.

Nokia Messaging is an easy to set-up and easy to use push email service which allows the user to mobilize up to ten personal email accounts on one device. After activating his accounts through a simple set-up process, the user can read, send, smart forward, reply to emails, download, read and attach files directly on their mobile phone. Push email technology ensures fast delivery of email to the mobile phone as soon as the email arrives on the email server. (more…)

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América Móvil and Nokia to bring mobile email services in Latin America

On 07.08.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: América Móvil and Nokia announced today that they will bring a top of the line messaging experience in multiple devices to customers in Latin America. The agreement adds to the leading collaboration between both companies in music and maps, to meet the growing demand for multimedia options on mobile devices in the region.

Through this agreement, the Nokia Messaging solution will be available to América Móvil customers in seven countries before the end of the year. América Móvil is the first operator to announce a Latin America-wide offering of Nokia Messaging to its customers. (more…)

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M1 & Nokia launch Nokia Messaging to subscribers at lower price (Singapore)

On 07.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia and M1 today announced a collaboration to offer a new, easy-to-use email service to M1 customers. With the Nokia Messaging service, M1 customers will be able to enjoy push email service on the go at a very affordable price.

By subscribing to any of the bundled data plans specially customized for this service, M1 customers will be the first in Singapore to be able to use Nokia Messaging on more than 20 Nokia handset models at a low cost. (more…)

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Nokia unveils three new handsets, E72, 5530 Xpress Music & Nokia 3710

On 06.15.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia has unleashed a new range of handsets including Nokia E72 smartphone. Nokia E72 comes with a full QWERTY keypad offering services like mobile e-mail and instant messaging. Users can set up instant messaging accounts provided by Nokia Messaging direct from the homescreen.The handset will begin shipping by Q3′09-end.
Nokia also unveiled the 5530 XpressMusic device, offering a touch interface and ’scrolling’ contacts bar giving direct access to 20 contacts and their latest conversations and media updates. The phone comes with a homescreen featuring one-touch shortcuts to content and social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace; and is expected to begin shipping in Q3.
The handset manufacturer has also uncovered the 3710 fold phone which comes with Ovi content services and is expected to be available in the Q4.

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Nokia introduces E75 in Austria

On 04.29.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia has introduced its smartphone Nokia E75 in the Austrian mobile phone market. The handset adorns Qwertz keyboard and includes Nokia Messaging, which enables users to access all e-mail addresses they have. The Nokia E75 also offers all Ovi service including Nokia Maps, Files on Ovi and N-Gage. The sales price for the E75 is set at EUR 469.

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A1 brings Nokia Messaging to subscribers in Austria

On 04.24.09, In Mobile, By Editor

wwww.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia and A1 have announced that A1 will begin offering the new Nokia Messaging consumer email service to its subscribers in Austria from May 2009. A1, part of mobilkom austria, is the first operator in Austria to introduce the service, which enables people to enjoy easy access to mobile email on their Nokia devices.

As a special offer, the service and associated data plan will be free of charge for a one month test period, after which the subscription price will be 5 euros/month.

“A1 aims to make mobile applications easily available for our 4.5 million customers. We have constantly proven our know-how and innovativeness with mobile email solutions. Now, we are delighted to be in the frontline in bringing Nokia Messaging to Austria. As the leading solution provider for mobile email in Austria we are again delighting our customers with an attractive offer,” said Dr. Reinhard Zuba, Head of Marketing, mobilkom austria.

“With an extremely easy-to-use application that allows consumers to access multiple email accounts on the same device, and an affordable data plan, mobile email with Nokia Messaging has the potential to become as popular as text messaging”, said Greig Williams, Managing Director, Nokia Alps South East Europe. “At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February we announced our strategy to make mobile multimedia available for everyone. Now, we take an important step in this direction through the roll-out of Nokia Messaging in Austria, in cooperation with mobilkom austria.”

Nokia Messaging allows consumers to access email accounts from thousands of ISPs around the world on their Nokia devices. Besides A1.net, email accounts from the world’s most popular webmail providers, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, and many others can be easily mobilized. Each customer can access up to 10 personal email accounts on their Nokia S60-devices. Nokia Messaging removes the complicated steps and the need to remember technical data, making the service extremely easy to set up. Push email technology ensures that emails are sent to the mobile device as soon as they arrive at the mail server. 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.

Mobilkom austria subscribers can use Nokia Messaging from May 2009 onwards on the brand new Nokia E75, as well as the Nokia N96.

About mobilkom
With 4.5 million customers and a market share of 42.5%, mobilkom austria is Austria’s leading mobile operator. The company, headquartered in Vienna, has generated revenues of EUR 1,668.0 million in the 2008 business year. mobilkom austria’s innovation leadership is marked by the worldwide first GPRS Launch in August 2000, one of Europe`s first commercial UMTS networks launched in Austria in April 2003 and worldwide first HSDPA in the UMTS network in January 2006 and HSUPA in February 2007. With the mobilkom austria group, the success of mobilkom austria extends beyond Austria’s borders. The mobilkom austria group includes mobilkom austria, velcom in Belarus, Mobiltel in Bulgaria, Vipnet in Croatia, Si.mobil in Slovenia, mobilkom Liechtenstein, Vip mobile in Serbia and Vip operator in Macedonia.

About Nokia
Nokia is the world’s number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

For more information, please visit www.nokia.com

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Orange and Nokia ink strategic partnership With Mobile Email (France)

On 04.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange and Nokia today announced they will extend their partnership with a new, simple-to-use email service for consumers. This extension to their multi-country agreement will deliver and launch a co-branded solution, Nokia Messaging by Orange, on a range of Orange Signature devices, aiming to bring mobile email to everyone with a phone, as well as working professionals.

First announced in February 2008, this three-year agreement was formed by Nokia and Orange to meet growing demand for multimedia on the mobile. It combines and integrates the best available services from both companies in the areas of music, games and maps across a range of Nokia devices. The successful alliance will expand the portfolio to eight countries and will include up to 30 Nokia devices in the Orange Signature range in 2009. Launching first in the UK from this summer, followed by France and Spain, Orange customers will be able to take advantage of built-in push email on the forthcoming Nokia E75 and a range of Nokia devices.

Olaf Swantee, Senior EVP of Orange’s global mobile business, said, “It was only a few weeks ago that we announced our strategy to make mobile multimedia a mass market phenomenon. This extension to our partnership with Nokia shows how serious we are about bringing mobile multimedia to every customer. With our leadership in innovation, proven expertise in convergence across our fixed, mobile and broadband networks and knowledge of our customers, we think this offer will help increase consumer appetite for mobile email.”
Raoul Roverato, EVP of Orange’s New Growth Businesses, confirmed, “Orange and Nokia have worked jointly as a team during those past months to provide the best of breed services to Orange mobile customers based on each company’s assets and service platforms. This new milestone will strengthen our partnership with Nokia and underline our commitment to provide additional value to Orange customers. This will pave the way to new opportunities of partnerships between the two companies in the coming months.”

Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President, Nokia says, “Orange is the first operator group to announce a European-wide offering of Nokia Messaging to their customers and we are very pleased about this extension to our service collaboration. The agreement on Nokia Messaging will boost the adoption of mobile email service and makes it easy for consumers to activate the service on-device and at Point-of-Sale. We believe that mobile messaging is for everyone, not just for a certain segment of the consumer market.”

Orange customers will be able to aggregate and manage multiple email accounts while on the move via the Orange homescreen. This service is easy to set up and enables people to directly access up to 10 personal email accounts, letting them read, send, forward and reply to emails, view subfolders, download and read attachments and attach files to emails directly on the Nokia device.

Orange and Nokia have agreed to launch Nokia Messaging in several major markets during 2009 with bundling, pricing and attractive tariffs announced locally across the Orange footprint.

About Orange

http://www.orange.com/en_EN/group/

About Nokia

Nokia is the world’s number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games.
We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

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Telefonica Spain & Nokia together launch Nokia Messaging

On 04.10.09, In Mobile, By Editor

Nokia Spain and Telefonica Spain have signed an agreement to introduce the Nokia Messaging push email service in Spain. Telefonica Spain will be among the first operators to bring this solution to market, continuing its investment in the development of mobile internet in Spain.

Nokia Messaging simplifies the mobilization of email. This new solution allows the easy access and use of multiple email accounts, by simplifying the process and removing complex steps. Push technology ensures the quick delivery of emails directly to the mobile phone. Nokia Messaging is compatible with thousands of Internet service providers (ISPs), like with terra.es and telefonica.net. The service allows users to set-up, access and use personal inboxes in a quick and easy way. The service will be provided via a flat and affordable rate for Telefonica customers.

“With this service, Nokia and Telefonica aim to respond to the growing consumer demand to be able to access their email accounts directly on the Nokia device whenever they want, wherever they want. In Spain, there are more than 15 million active personal email accounts, so there is tremendous potential for the number of users that can leverage this service. The objective is to bring mobile email to the masses and make it accessible to the largest number of users possible,” said Marieta del Rivero, General Manager, Nokia Iberia.

Nokia Messaging allows users to choose from a wide range of Nokia S60 devices. Telefonica customers can continue to use their preferred Nokia device and launch Nokia Messaging through an easy set-up process. In addition to ISP email accounts, Nokia Messaging also mobilizes the world’s most popular webmail accounts, including Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and Gmail. With Nokia Messaging, consumers can access up to 10 personal email accounts on one device.

About Nokia

Nokia is the world’s number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

http://www.nokia.com

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Nokia E75 arrives to the UAE

On 04.08.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing Nokia’s best efficiency and productivity solution to the market. The Nokia E75 is the first device to ship with Nokia’s new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia’s email and messaging services.

Made from the quality materials one expects from Nokia Eseries, the Nokia E75 has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and efficient three-step email setup. This simplicity is achieved with the integration of Nokia Messaging, which ships with a device for the first time in the Nokia E75. Nokia Messaging is a service that opens up the world’s leading consumer email accounts – including Yahoo! Mail®, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail – and is joined by Nokia’s corporate email clients, Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which provide direct access to over 90 percent of the world’s corporate inboxes as well.

The richer email experience in the Nokia E75 brings all of the owner’s accounts into one simple to access and easy to use UI, which supports the most common features for desktop email including expanding views, one click reply and sub-folder and HTML support. Added to the enhanced email functionality, upgraded personal information management features such as the ability to create and respond to meeting requests, and contacts lookup and auto-complete also make their debut in the Nokia E75.

The Nokia E75 also integrates tightly to other Ovi services and ships with Ovi Files, for storing files online, Nokia Maps, which works with the onboard A-GPS and Nokia’s games service N-Gage which is supported for the first time in a Nokia Eseries device.

The new Nokia E75 is estimated at 2,300 AED.

About Nokia
Nokia is the world’s number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

For more information, please visit www.nokia.com

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Nokia Messaging service for SingTel subscribers (Singapore)

On 04.04.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SingTel will offer Nokia Messaging on the Nokia E63 along with the special data plans to its subscribers. The subscribers who buy a Nokia E63 device with a MobileM@il Plus data plan for two years at SGD 5.35 per month will have the Nokia Messaging built-in push e-mail service included with no additional charge.

Furthermore, MobileM@il Plus is bundled with 10 MB data and PhoneSafe, a mobile phone security service that lets customers lock phone, backup and delete important data such as e-mails from phones remotely. The subscribers of SingTel can avail the Nokia Messaging on E63 from April 4. SingTel MobileM@il Plus plans for the Nokia Messaging will also be offered soon over other Nokia devices including the Nokia E75.