Nokia’s industrious team behind Mail for Exchange has released yet another version of Mail for Exchange.
The new version Mail for Exchange 2.5.3 introduces support for the two new Nokia Eseries devices; Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 as well as fixes two bugs.
From the release notes: (more…)
It’s amazing. When I started this blog about two years ago very little attention was given to Nokia’s Eseries devices. There was little anticipation and speculation before the device launches. Even the Eseries device announcement received relatively little coverage in the blogosphere as well as other media. What a difference two years make.
Leading up to the announcement of Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 was a number of speculations, including leaked imagines. Now, a few days after Monday’s launch event the never dissapointing crew at All-About-Symbian has scored the first full featured review of the Nokia E71. This is an excellent, in-depth review well worth the read.
I can also recommend the first unboxing ritual of the Nokia E66. There is a video and a number of photos over at Symbian World. Instead of going for a boring nuetral background Symbian World chose to celebrate the Summer and take the unboxing photos out on the lawn - Very cool.
There is a treasure trove of photos, promotional videos and interviews with some of the product managers behind Nokia’s latest Eseries products. Just click on some of the photos or videos below.
Nokia’s event site is another place where there are additional information.
Nokia today officially announced the next generation Eseries devices - Nokia E66 and Nokia E71.
It came as now big surprise since rumors & leaks about these long awaited devices have floated around for months now. The Nokia E71 even got previewed over at Boy Genius Report. Here’s a brief overview of the device specs for the two devices:
Complete Nokia E71 data sheet is available for download here. Nokia E71 photos and videos available here.
Complete Nokia E66 data sheet is available for download here. Nokia E66 photos and videos available here.
There is a new version of Mail for Exchange available - Mail for Exchange 2.5.
Mail for Exchange is the name of Nokia's email client built on Microsoft's ActiveSync technonology. Mail for Exchange provides push synchronization of email and other data between Microsoft Exchange and Nokia devices.
The new version of Mail for Exchange is not an incremental update but instead, a big step forward for this free email application.
For the first time Mail for Exchange now includes support for features available on Microsoft Exchange 2007.
So if you are in luck, and your company uses Exchange 2007 you have a few additional useful features.
Ability to set up Out of the Office auto-reply notifications from your Nokia device. In my opinion, this is probably the best feature of this release. A few of us have probably forgot to turn on the "out of office" function when we have rushed out on Friday afternoon when going on vacation. Or perhaps realized on the way to the airport, before a long trip, that we forgot to turn on the out-of-office auto replay. Well, no more booting up the laptop to set up out-of-office you can do it directly from your device.
However, finding this new function is a bit tricky. I expected the out-of-office function to show up in the calendar but it is not.
Instead, it is part of your Mail for Exchange profile. You need to go to the MfE application in the MfE folder, and then go to "edit profile" and buried deep in the settings for "profile" is out of office.
But once you find the feature it is dead easy to set up.
OK, let me start off with saying that this is by no means something new. I actually wrote this blog post in March but never got around to post.
However, in all fairness to those of you who are die hard Yahoo! fans and don't already know this - Yahoo! Go 3.0 now supports Nokia E61i, among other Eseries devices.
As I have posted previously - I'm not a big fan of Yahoo!'s monolithic approach to mobile applications. There Yahoo! Go application provides access to every possible Yahoo! branded service.
