Nokia adds Active Sync to smartphones

NOKIA HAS EXTENDED Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support to all of its S60 mobile phones.

The move is set to help the Finnish mobile maker renew its battle for corporate email against the likes of Blackberry, which recently upped its share of the smartphone market.

Nokia also revealed that Mail for Exchange will be available as standard in all new Eseries and Nseries devices.

Provided the company is running an Exchange email server, this will allow workers to freely access their business email, calendar, contacts, tasks and company directory over a secure connection.

Of course there are a host of phones out there that support ActiveSync, most obviously Windows Mobile devices, but according to Nokia its phones will have access to features that are currently not available to the competition. These include things like setting email priorities, alerts for meeting request conflicts, a standalone global address list and downloading and editing all types of attachments.

Also, those organisations using Exchange Server 2007 will provide Nokia owners with features such as Autodiscover, out of office messaging, synchronisation when roaming and the ability to flag messages for follow-up. µ