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Nokia has brought a messaging treat for all its loyal fans out there. Nokia Messaging will mobilize consumer email and consumer instant messaging solutions on all Nokia phones. Nokia Messaging package will support email and instant messaging for Yahoo! Mail® and Yahoo! Messenger®, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Google Talk, and AOL Mail as well as email solutions from thousands of ISPs around the world on the majority of Nokia devices.

Nokia also introduced the online portal for Mail on Ovi, which will enable PC users to create and access Ovi email accounts as well as gain cross access to other Ovi services with just a single sign-on account. Nokia’s introduction f Mail on Ovi will give users 1GB of storage space and spam filters to block unwanted emails. Also, users will get access to their email, as well as cross access to other Ovi services, both on the mobile phone and on the PC.

Initially, Nokia will out the beta version sometime in December 2008 in 12 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia on all currently shipping Nokia Series 40 devices, with many more languages to be added later. The web access version will come around in February 2009.

The Nokia Messaging push email service is currently available for free as a limited-period beta trial. Owners of popular Nokia S60 devices such as Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 can immediately go to email.nokia.com and install the application on their phones.

The whole point of this effort was to make access to email and instant messaging as easy and affordable as possible. According to Tom Furlong, Senior Vice President, Consumer Messaging, Services and Software, “We believe everybody should have mobile messaging – it’s not a privilege service that’s meant only for a certain segment of the market. With Nokia Messaging, our customers can simply and affordably gain mobile access to the world’s most popular email and IM accounts. We are making mobile messaging an affordable experience for everyone, not just for those with specialized phones designed for messaging, but for everyone with a Nokia device.”

All we can say is, it’s about time Nokia!