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 productivity apps to all Nokia Symbian Belle smartphones

Symbian Belle as well as the current Symbian Anna phones will be transformed to a powerful mobile business devices as Nokia announce a forthcoming update that will add a free mobile office called Microsoft® Apps, delivering a suite of Microsoft productivity applications to its compatible Nokia smartphones to add to the comprehensive security and manageability features. Requiring no additional infrastructure, these apps help add immediate business advantage to the first Symbian Belle devices as well as delivering significant additional value to existing Nokia business customers who upgrade to Symbian Belle.

Available by the end of 4Q 2011 with broad consumer availability at the beginning of 2012, Microsoft Apps will bring collaboration and productivity tools including Microsoft® Lync(TM) 2010 Mobile, Microsoft OneNote(TM), Microsoft PowerPoint® Broadcast and Microsoft Document Connection (which provides Microsoft SharePoint access) to Symbian Belle. An update in the first half of 2012 will introduce Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as native applications for the first time outside the Windows platform.

Microsoft Apps will be delivered via software update over the air or via PC download and will function on the Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia 600 and Nokia Oro.

Additionally, Nokia is working with Microsoft to provide mobile device management of Symbian Belle devices through Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2012.

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