Nokia and Yahoo! Extend Internet Experience to the Mobile Mass Market
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 2:20 PM PST In Financial/Corporate News
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) (NYSE: NOK) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) today extended their partnership to offer Yahoo! branded services including Yahoo! Mail and Messenger on Nokia’s wide range of mobile phones operating on the Series 40 platform. Yahoo! services will initially be available on the newly announced Nokia 6300, the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5200. Moving forward these services and the ability to synchronise Yahoo! contacts, tasks and calendar on the PC and phone will be added to an even wider range of Nokia’s Series 40 devices.
* Yahoo! Mail –
- Have your familiar Yahoo mail on your Nokia device
- Easily manage messages through the phone’s messaging inbox
- Store new messages locally on the device to allow for offline access* Yahoo! Messenger -
- Send and receive messages and use emoticons on a mobile device just like on PC
- Set presence information to show your friends and family when you are available to chat, and view presence information to know when they are online too* Yahoo! Personal Information Management
- Never lose the contact information on your phone again
- Synchronize your Yahoo! contacts – and your tasks and calendar – on the PC with those on your mobile deviceSource: Nokia PR
Ok Google (NSDQ: GOOG), time to get off your bum and release Google Calender Mobile. Also release an update to the Gmail app that will let me send attachments! Death to MMS fees!

