Wait, what? File this one at the very top of the "strange bedfellows" category: Nokia and Microsoft have stopped scrapping for smartphone supremacy long enough to bring a full suite
Windows Live services to a number of Nokia's S60 devices -- devices, may we add, that do direct battle with Windows Mobile hardware. Specifically, Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts, and Spaces are all available immediately as downloads for N73, N76, N80 Internet Edition, N93i, and N95 in select European and Middle Eastern countries (no US love for the time being); Microsoft's saying that the services are free for now, but users may be looking at a subscription fee down the road. To be fair, this isn't the first time
Microsoft has extended a Windows Live olive branch to Espoo, but it's the first time the partnership has been this broad. It's gonna get even broader, too; look for Windows Live to find its way into Nokia's Series 40 platform some time next year.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Al @ Aug 23rd 2007 1:20AM
If they start charging, people can always use a 3rd party IM app instead. But I do like their MSN messenger app.
Shivoa @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:41PM
Shame they're releasing it on a limited selection of S60v3 devices. The original N93 is barely a year old and yet get shunned with this release. Hopefully it'll be reasonably easy to get it working on 'older' devices.
Fernando @ Aug 23rd 2007 2:25PM
You can use it on the N93, get it here: http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11784&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
Jorge @ Sep 4th 2007 10:27AM
I installed it some days ago on my N95 y it acts like a virus. When using Messenger, somentimes connections are established without authorization y with apparently no application running (if you try to close the connection with the connection manager, it starts agains automatically: you need to restart the phone). Sometimes you can't access the phone's MemCard via USB because "Some application is using the memory card" (none is shown running if you check it).
After uninstalling it I checked again Nokia's Download application to see if there was some kind of update, and - funnily enough - WinLive folder insn't there anymore. It seems they're fixing bugs before a new release...