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Nokia after teaming with Microsoft, recently announced it will provide customers with a new suite enabling access to the Windows Live web services, including Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Spaces.

Early 2005, these industry leaders announced a long-term collaboration on digital media format support on Nokia handsets and Windows Media Player. This collaboration included support for WMA, MPEG AAC and Windows Media DRM. Let alone the fact that DRM is more prevailant only on paper and news reports than in practice, the inclusion of these media formats as standards was indeed pleasant, making it easier for users to download music without much worry whether the file format will be supported.

With this new announcement, Nokia customers in 11 countries with compatible S60 devices (Nokia N73, N76, N80 Internet Edition, N93i, and the N95), rightly termed as multimedia computers can download the new suite from the Nokia Website and use it for free. Support will be extended to Series 40 devices starting sometime early next year, and to other countries where services might be charged.

What this really signifies, would be the bridging gap between fixed line and wireless internet, bringing even more functionality and convenience, with mobility. Just imagine, soon you will be able to seamlessly move between contacts, mails, personal files and instant messages between devices, both fixed and mobile without the need to manually sync the devices. Ain’t that sweet.

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