With HTC’s recent product launches, we couldn’t imagine their portfolio getting any more amazing. So it’s a good thing we didn’t have to imagine the new HTCmail service from, well, HTC. It looks like the smartphone manufacturing powerhouse is getting into the email-game to help promote the mobile productivity of their smartphone lineup. We missed the announcement, it was understandably overshadowed by HTC’s launching of the HTC TyTN II (Kaiser).
The HTCmail service is a fully hosted, secure, managed email solution that’s based on Microsoft Hosted Exchange. With real-time access to up to five separate email accounts, you no longer have to worry about making all your email accounts play nicely with your mobile device. HTCmail simply aggregates all that email and delivers it to your mobile phone through Outlook 2007. And, on top of email, HTCmail will sync your calendar and contacts on the go.
The new service will work on all HTC smartphones and is expected to go live across Europe in September 2007. HTCmail will offer 20GB email storage and a 20MB send email size limit – impressive by any standard.
The recent trend for mobile phone manufacturers seems to be to offer more and more web-based services. We gotta say, it’s a good thing. Offering new services to help consumers leverage the power of their expensive smartphones seems like a good way to get the end-user more involved and enthused about their gadgets. Bring on the web-services!