3G Wireless Updating of Calendars and Contacts

QmPIM/Offline Extension is an important component of the latest mPIM platform scheduled for launch in May of this year. Using open standards, Offline Extension keeps locally stored calendar and contact databases on your mobile phone or PDA updated through synchronization back to your corporate server. This offers both security and convenience to the user.

"By supporting synchronisation via open standards, users can have their calendars and all contacts from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus always updated in their mobile telephone, regardless of whether the technology is based on Ericsson, Nokia or Microsoft. The user can personalize when to update the calendar and contact in the phone. Based on the mobile workers needs we have created a secure and cost-effective solution for intelligent synchronisation," says Ulf Avrin, CEO at Mobeon.

Mobile telephones are becoming more and more like a PDAs advanced client applications for e-mail, contact management and calendars integral parts of the device. By utilising the SyncML standard, Mobeon can now supply support for enabling synchronisation not just for the future '3G telephones', but also for many of the telephones and PDAs currently on the market. Examples of this are the T68, T39 and P800 models from SonyEricsson, Nokia's 7650 and 9210 and PocketPC based PDAs such as Compaq's Ipaq.

"Having a single product for supporting mobile work, whether on or offline creates the best situation for users, irrespective of whether they use a standard mobile telephone, Smartphone or PDA. It also allows our partners to create extremely attractive solutions suited for professional user's needs," states Robert Vangstad, Marketing Director at Mobeon.

mPIM/Offline Extension is built on an open standard called SynqML. Using open standards benefits the end-user by providing freedom of choice, secure path for upgrades and competitive market pricing.