Smart Communications, a wireless services provider (SMART) has signed a deal with Nokia to offer Nokia Messaging, a messaging service, on selected Nseries and Eseries devices.
Nokia Messaging mobilises email from thousands of internet and email service providers globally. It allows customers to have their personal email accounts pushed directly to their Nokia device from email service providers such as Ovi, Yahoo!Mail, Gmail, and Windows Live Hotmail.
The company said that customers need to enter their email address and password to get emails pushed directly to the homescreen of their device. They can then read, send, forward and reply to emails and download, read, forward and attach files on the go. Small medium enterprises (SMEs) with their own POP/IMAP compliant email servers can also avail push email service with Nokia Messaging.
Danilo Mojica, head of wireless consumer division of SMART, said: The Nokia Messaging service offers all consumers a chance to enjoy push email service on their Nokia phone. With just a single application on a mobile device, our customers can manage multiple email accounts anytime, anywhere.
“Nokia Messaging makes it effortless to set up a push email account, providing an unprecedented ease of use and convenience to our customers. Coupled with SMART’s unrivalled 3G/HSPA network, they will enjoy a superior mobile email experience and remain connected easily.
Benoit Nalin, general manager of Nokia Philippines, said: We want to make mobile messaging as ubiquitous as voice or SMS. Nokia Messaging gives people simple and affordable mobile access to the world’s most popular email accounts. We believe mobile messaging is a critical, must-have feature, and we deliver mobile messaging solutions to a broad range of Nokia devices, all easily activated with a few clicks.
The Nokia E75 is the first Nokia device to ship with a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keymat and offers a unified messaging interface that combines email, MMS and SMS into one application. The Nokia Messaging plan will also be offered to other Nokia Messaging capable devices in the near future, the company said.
SMART Gold subscribers will be able to avail unlimited Nokia Messaging push email service at P299 per month on the Nokia E75. Nokia Messaging will be available on a special data plan to SMART subscribers beginning September 26, 2009.
