Microsoft and Nokia launch new Microsoft Communicator Mobile for E-Series handsets

By on May 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM
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Last August, Microsoft and Nokia teamed up to bring Microsoft Office functionality to Nokia’s smartphone lineup. The first fruits of this joint venture have come in the form of the newly announced Microsoft Communicator Mobile. Just as the name implies, Communicator Mobile will improve the peer-to-peer communication within Nokia’s Symbian-powered handsets by allowing users to view a colleague’s current status, check their availability on a certain date, and launch an IM session, send a text, or write an email from within the contact card. The mobile communications client will be available initially from the Ovi Store for Nokia’s E71 and E72 handsets, while future E-Series handsets will ship with Communicator Mobile pre-installed.

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  • Gymfreak

    Trying to be like Blackberry

    • bonesb

      Nokia tried, and failed, a few years ago with its BB Connect Suite, think it never made it past the E61 officially, had it on my E62. Didn’t work so well on my E62 with Cingular’s bunged up Java permissions.

      • Dara

        Nokia stopped supporting it in 2008 when they released the E71 and started to gain some confidence in their own email solution. It was previously Nokia Email but is now Nokia Messaging. I’ve been using it from the start and it was a bit shaky but it’s great now.

  • ifone msn

    jobs needs to get his iphones to do this too…that will be phenomenal

  • boogalooboy

    Once again, MS partners with a competitor to enhance their line of phones while WM languishes, dying a slow death. Great work MS!!

    • Boo

      There is already a full Office suite and Communciator client for WinMo. What more do you want?

  • Jay Ino

    Wow this is actually good news..surprise android or windows mobile didnt jump on this idea first kind of weird,however good news for nokia .

  • Param

    Not yet available for Nokia E71. It just shows up for E72.

  • Dara

    Nokia’s release says E72 and E52, which are Symbian v3 FP2 phones. The E71 is FP1 so is there another source of info for that or is it a mistake? If it’s not, then it could possibly be hacked onto the others, like my N95.

    I wonder if MS used Qt for this, or plans to implement it later? I can’t imagine them not planning for Symbian^4, which is going to break binary compatibility with the current Symbian OS in 2011.

    Or this could be a super low level program that uses the few basic APIs that aren’t changing. AFAIK the calling and messaging components will be the same underneath the UI.

    • http://www.maemo-freak.com christexaport

      its most likely Silverlight based. Notice Symbian includes Silverlight as a runtime now.

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    There is already a full Office suite and Communciator client for WinMo.

  • http://web.me.com/mel.tan/ThoughtForFood/Journal/Journal.html Mel

    About time. BB already has MS Office Communicator. I also wish Symbian is just faster/responsive but it’s so outdated. I’m so sick of waiting for my menus and navigating through a billion screens to get to do what I want to. iPhone is tempting me.

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