14 DAY TRIAL // Pannon, T-Mobile and Nokia announced today that mobile phone users in Hungary would soon be able to enjoy Nokia Messaging, the email service from the Finnish handset maker. The service comes to all Pannon customers and to T-Mobile's postpaid users, the companies announced. What Nokia Messaging is set to deliver to users includes push e-mail capabilities, support for leading e-mail solutions, including Ovi Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail, as well as support for local email services, such as Citromail, Indamail and Freemail.
“In today's world, access is of key importance - not only the access to information but also the access to each other. Mobile phones pose an obvious solution to keep in touch with each other, and the combination of a handset and an e-mail solution is perfectly in line with Pannon's goals to offer services to our customers that make their lives easier” commented Gergely Laczko Toth, acting CMO of Pannon.
The Nokia Messaging service, as many of you might already know, is an easy to set-up email solution that enables users to mobilize a number of up to ten personal email accounts on a single Nokia mobile phone. Users will also enjoy real-time messaging, as well as the possibility to read, send, forward and reply to emails, not to mention that they can also view subfolders, or download or send attachments. The push-email technology ensures that messages are sent to the device as soon as they arrive on the server.
“T-Mobile offers numerous solutions for the ever more popular mobile phone based messaging to its customers, and the offer may become even more complete by introducing Nokia Messaging, as subscribers can pick the solutions best matching their needs. Subscribers increasingly expect the capability to make telephone calls, internet connections and watch TV anytime and anywhere - to have the freedom of accessing information or entertain themselves. Jointly with our partners - e.g. the market leader mobile phone manufacturer Nokia - we wish to fully meet these expectations, building upon our internationally acknowledged, excellent quality network” Janos Winkler, Head of T-Mobile in Hungary, COO Magyar Telekom, stated.
Those mobile phone users in Hungary who would like to try out the new service will be able to do so for free for a period of 30 days. The service will then be available for a monthly charge, and users can activate Nokia Messaging at the consumer service of the wireless carrier. The Nokia E52, E66, E72, E71, and N97 mobile phones are currently featuring support for the service in the country.
“We are pleased to make this announcement simultaneously with Pannon and T-Mobile. Nokia aims to make mobile e-mail available for as many people as possible; therefore the fact that two Hungarian operators offer Nokia Messaging is an important milestone. With Nokia Messaging, we can meet the need of people to access their public e-mail whenever they want, wherever they want” said Marcus Storkel, Country Manager for Nokia in Hungary.