Microsoft is announcing the arrival - in the coming weeks and months - of completely new versions of the Windows Live suite of services and applications, including Windows Live for Windows Mobile. What's new in the mobile suite? Check out the press release:
Windows
Live for mobile brings the
Windows Live experience optimized for mobile devices. You can access Windows
Live services via client applications, the mobile Web or short message service
(SMS). Go to http://mobile.live.com from
your mobile phone’s Web browser to get started on the mobile Web. Windows Live
for mobile includes the following services:
·
Windows Live Hotmail for mobile. Web- and
client-based mail on your mobile phone and new mail alerts via SMS. The
new version of Windows Live Hotmail for mobile is focused on making Windows
Live Hotmail on the mobile Web faster and more efficient to use. Some of the new
features, scheduled for release in early 2009, follow:
- Mail search. Ability to search within your e-mail
- Rich e-mail. HTML rendering of e-mail, including embedded images and
links
·
Windows Live Messenger for mobile. Web-, client- and SMS-based IM from your mobile device
·
New! Windows
Live Photos for mobile. Web-based photo viewing,
upload and sharing. Client-based photo upload.
- Album and photo
viewing. View your own
and friends’ photos using your mobile phone’s Web browser. Browse albums, view
photo thumbnails, see photo details and add comments.
- Photo upload. Publish and share your photos from your Web-enabled camera phone.
- “What’s New”
feed.
See if friends have shared new
albums or if there are new comments on photos.
·
New! Windows
Live Profile for mobile. It offers Web-based
access to view and update your information and connect with others.
- View profile. View your own and other people’s profile information.
- Manage friend invitations. Accept or decline friends’ requests to connect with you.
- “What’s New” feed. See what’s new for the person whose profile you are
looking at.Invite a friend. Send SMS to invite a friend to connect
with you.
·
New! Windows
Live People for mobile. Integrated contacts in
mobile phone address book for supported devices. Web-based hub to access
contacts. SMS-based search for contact info.
- Contact search. Search for contacts in your contact list using your phone’s Web
browser.
- Get Contact
Information. Send SMS to a
Windows Live SMS shortcode to look up a contact’s information (coming early
2009).
·
Windows Live Spaces for mobile. Web-based access to personal Web page and blogging
·
New! Windows
Live Calendar for mobile. SMS-based access to today’s
and tomorrow’s appointments
- Get calendar. Send SMS with “today” or “tomorrow” to a Windows Live SMS
shortcode and get your calendar for the day (coming early 2009).