Mobile Office Apps for Symbian

With the business world going mobile and consumers demanding quick, real-time decisions, and effectively handle time-sensitive issues. Nokia in partnership with Microsoft® delivers a suite of familiar Microsoft productivity applications to Symbian Belle devices, enriching the comprehensive communication, collaboration, and manageability features of these devices.

With mobile Microsoft Office apps, you can get more done when you’re on the go, connecting to core productivity services such as corporate email and collaboration and instant messaging (IM) tools. Requiring no additional infrastructure investments, mobile Office apps offer enhanced flexibility to help provide business advantages to Symbian device users and significant value to existing Nokia business customers.

Do the following on Lync 2010 Mobile:

• Single and multi-party IM and federation with other IM services
• View contacts with photos and up-to-date presence
• Quick access to contacts and search from Global Address Lookup
• Direct entry into audio meetings without passwords
• Outside voice support for cellular calls
• Support for Office 365 Lync users

OneNote Mobile has the following features to brag about:

• Create and edit notes with text, bullets, checklists, and photos
• Syncs with Windows Live™ SkyDrive® and OneNote on your PC
• Store notes locally and then sync them once you check in
• Notebook sharing to keep everyone in sync and up to date
• Support for Office 365 OneNote users

Word Mobile

• View documents with improved fidelity
• Save or send documents while preserving tables, SmartArt, charts
• Pinch/zoom and rich support to easily view and edit documents

Powerpoint Mobile

• Utilize desktop fidelity viewing
• Edit presentation text and speaker notes
• Browse slides quickly with Outline view
• View broadcasted presentations

Excel Mobile

• View rich data and charts from anywhere
• Preview and quickly navigate to the content you want
• Insert formulas
• Modify data by accessing more than 114 formulas

COMPATIBLE DEVICES

Symbian Belle: Nokia E6, Nokia E7, Nokia X7, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-001, Nokia N8*, Nokia Oro, Nokia 500, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 701

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Microsoft Office Mobile For Symbian Smartphones

Nokia announced that Office Mobile apps from Microsoft -- Word mobile, PowerPoint mobile and Excel mobile, are made available via Software Update* for the Nokia 701, Nokia 700, Nokia E7, Nokia X7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01**.

Office Mobile completes the suite of Microsoft productivity applications for Symbian smartphones with Nokia Belle, including OneNote mobile, which allows you to capture, create, read, and edit rich text and image notes from your camera or picture gallery; Document Connection, that lets you save, search and view your office documents stored in your mobile or attachments to your email; Lync 2010 mobile, which allows you to conduct virtual conferences with audio, video and instant messaging; and PowerPoint Broadcast that enhances your virtual meetings with presentations easily viewed and shared on your mobile.

“Office Mobile apps and the productivity suite from Microsoft bring Symbian smartphones to a whole new level that both business users and IT managers will appreciate. With more people using their own devices in office environments, the need for secure connectivity is growing. Business decision makers and users also expect the best mobile experience for corporate communication through email and instant messaging, and collaboration through team tools,” said Dharmesh Goshalia, general manager and head of sales of Nokia Philippines. “Moving beyond the business arena, the rich functionalities of Office Mobile will also be appreciated by anyone who uses Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.”

Business users using Symbian smartphones with Nokia Belle can also enjoy the latest Nokia applications like Nokia Drive and Nokia Maps that feature free turn-by-turn voice guided walk and drive navigation in more than 100 countries, maps for more than 190 countries; Nokia Public Transport with routing in more than 400 cities around the world; and access more than 100,000 apps in the Nokia Store, which is experiencing more than 13 million download requests per day.

More information on Mobile Office apps or the full suite of Microsoft productivity applications can be found from the Nokia for Business site.

*Office Mobile apps will be available from Nokia Store in early May 2012.
**The full suite of Microsoft productivity applications for Nokia N8, Nokia E6 and Nokia 500 will be available at a later date.

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Nokia Smartphones To Get Micorsoft's Office Mobile 2010

Microsoft Corporation announced on Thursday the availability of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 for business consumers across the world.

The software major also announced that Office Mobile 2010 will soon be available on Windows 6.5 phones and a broad range of Nokia smartphones, starting with Nokia’s enterprise device segment, the E series.

Microsoft and Nokia had announced their alliance in August 2009 and since then the two companies have been collaborating on the design and development of new solutions.

The two companies recently announced the first result of this collaboration in the form of a unified communications application for mobiles, the Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia devices, which allows users to see when and on what networking program their colleagues are available, and makes it easy for users to send and receive instant messages.

Microsoft Communicator Mobile is currently available for Nokia E52 and E72. However, the application would soon be available for other Nokia devices as well.

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