IXI Mobile, developer of the Ogo family of mobile messaging solutions, has announced that it is making MSN Messenger and Hotmail available on its Ogo messaging device. The agreement with MSN enables IXI Mobile to offer MSN services to mobile service providers worldwide. The complete Ogo offering, which includes mobile messaging devices and hosted services, helps service providers bring revenue-enhancing mobile messaging products to market quickly and easily. The Ogo series of mobile devices are designed to deliver on-the-go mobile messaging with a full screen, QWERTY keyboard, easy-to-use interface and clamshell design.

„MSN is very pleased to collaborate with IXI Mobile on the Ogo offering designed for the mass market audience which will allow MSN to expand the availability of its global services by bringing its integrated IM and e-mail customer experience to more users," said Matt Champagne, director of MSN Mobile at Microsoft.

The end-to-end offering was recently launched at Swisscom Mobile, the leading mobile operator in Switzerland with over four million subscribers. Swisscom began selling Ogo in November 2005. Ogo was initially launched with AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless) in the United States in September 2004.
The device costs from $17.99 per month.