IBM Lotus Notes Traveler support announced for Nokia S60 3rd edition mobile phones

Tony Austin
Sunday, 23 November 2008 06:23

Opinion and Analysis

IBM and Nokia have just announced that Lotus Notes Traveler is extended to support a range of S60-based Nokia mobile phones — those built on S60 third edition of the Symbian OS — thus providing a major alternative to Windows Mobile device support.

The IBM and Nokia announcement, made on 20 November 2008, covers those Nokia mobile phones built on S60 third edition of the Symbian OS, of which over 80 million have been sold.

IBM has sold some 140 million seats of Lots Notes, running e-mail, calendaring, resource scheduling, and a vast range of other applications.

The underlying mobile support is provided by Lotus Domino server version 8.0.1 or later.

The detailed system requirements for Lotus Notes Traveler support are here and the list of Nokia phones with S60 3rd Edition support is here.

Lotus Notes Traveler software provides mobile support for IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino Web Access users. It provides automatic, real-time replication of Lotus Domino e-mail (including attachments), calendar, address book, journal and To Do lists.

Previous Lotus Traveler support was only for certain mobile devices running under Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1 releases. The new support for devices from the largest mobile manufacturer is indeed good news for Lotus Notes users.

Organizations with mobile workers using the S60-based Nokia devices are no longer left out in the cold. They can take advantage of Lotus Traveler for increased responsiveness to business needs, leveraging their existing investment in Lotus Domino software.

According to IBM's Institute for Business Value, this year, for the first time, more people in the world will have a mobile device than a land-line telephone.

IBM predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a significant shift in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade. In fact, mobile devices now outnumber television sets, credit cards and personal computers.

And Nokia is very happy with the new arrangement too.

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