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Symbian Limited today announces the launch of its industry endorsed mobile email validation program. The Symbian Email Validation Program promotes best practice for push email solutions on Symbian OS, supporting vendors who target the mass market through Symbian OS mobile phones.
The validation program defines industry agreed quality guidelines for push email solutions in the form of a Symbian Recommended Practice against which vendors can validate their solutions. The guidelines cover the whole user experience from installation and device compatibility to minimum service functionality and ease-of-use and have been developed in close collaboration with a broad spectrum of the leading vendors in the market including RIM – BlackBerry Connect, DataViz on ActiveSync, iAnywhere, Intellisync, Nokia Enterprise Solutions, QuickOffice, Seven and Visto.
Solutions that successfully complete the validation process are accredited with the “Symbian Approved” mark, signifying to phone manufacturers, system integrators and network operators that the solutions offer an industry agreed level of functionality. This benchmark is designed to shorten the time required to roll-out push email services and accelerate the anticipated widespread adoption of push email on Symbian OS phones to enterprises and mobile workers.
According to Datamonitor there are roughly 650 million corporate email inboxes worldwide. Based on the assumption that at least 35-40% of these inboxes could potentially be mobilized, Datamonitor believes the addressable market for enterprise mobile email is around 260 million subscriptions while operators’ revenues from enterprise mobile email and PIM alone will surpass $600 million by 2009.
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
