SmartPhones

While the mainstream press is focused on the new Microsoft-Yahoo deal, we'd like to talk about the Microsoft-Nokia deal: in particular, what will it do for smartphones?

For one, it will bring a Microsoft Office enterprise version to Symbian smartphones. Plus new Nokia devices will ship with Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile built in. Also, the new team-up plans to use Exchange ActiveSync to optimize corporate customers' data access.

But in the live teleconference call yesterday in which the partnership was announced, a Microsoft exec professed that this was by no means all there was to the arrangement.

In a much larger context, Microsoft hopes to dislodge RIM and its Blackberry from its domination of the mobile enterprise market. Plus, Microsoft is eager to benefit from Nokia's 200 million subscriber base while Nokia is eager to benefit from Microsoft's U.S. presence.

Strange, though, is that Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS and Nokia's Symbian mobile OS will still compete with one another in the platform wars.

written by SmartPhoneWizard \\ tags: ActiveSync, Blackberry, enterprise, Exchange, Microsoft, Nokia, Office, RIM, Symbian, Windows Mobile

In response to the widespread popularity of Windows Mobile software and the equally widespread dissatisfaction with how well (or not so well) it's so far been integrated into other companies' smartphones, HTC, the developers of Windows Mobile software, is putting out their own smartphone.

Called the HTC S730, the new smartphone will be an HSPDA phone with 3G capabilities housed in a grey metallic casing with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. One of the most exciting features of the HTC S730 is that it will be Wi-Fi enabled and able to perform as a modem when a nearby PC or laptop is without one.

But of course, the HTC S730 wouldn't be worth making if it wasn't primed to be the best implementation of Microsoft Windows Mobile software yet, and it shouldn't disappoint with the latest, Windows Mobile 6, installed. The HTC S730 will include:

• Microsoft Office Mobile
• Outlook email
• a calendar
• contact book
• and a whole lot more!

Check it out for yourself at the HTC site

written by SmartPhoneWizard \\ tags: HTC, HTC S730, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Mobile, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Office, Office Mobile, Outlook, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6