HP Unveil Plans for Windows Mobile Handsets

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HP unveiled new mobility products, services, solutions and alliances as the company kicked off a worldwide mobility initiative for 2005. HP's new initiative is designed to drive the impending global shift in how businesses and consumers securely connect to and share digital content, information and services.

HP plans to:

• Create mobile devices that are suited for the task at hand, making them more secure, usable, simple, personal and compatible with the rest of computing technology;
  
  
• Provide businesses of all sizes with standards-based infrastructures and mobile solutions that enable them to increase productivity and to stay connected to critical information when and where they need it;
  
  
• Help telecom service providers evolve their voice and data networks so they can streamline the creation, delivery and management of personalized, content-rich services;
  
  
• Form industry alliances that solve customer problems and take advantage of HP's innovative products, services and infrastructure.
  

In the first in a series of mobility-focused announcements scheduled for this year, HP has unveiled the most powerful and extensive lineup of business notebooks in its history, expanded its mobile portfolio for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), announced its intent to deliver a new generation of smart devices, and partnered with Nokia to bring mobile forms processing to the enterprise market.

To strengthen its leadership in the fast-growing smart device market, HP will continue to evolve the HP iPAQ product line and build on the success of the award-winning iPAQ 6300 series smart device. The new devices will incorporate several different types of wireless technologies and be offered in a variety of designs and sizes as they roll out through the year.

The first of these new products, HP iPAQ Mobile Messenger, integrates wireless voice, high-speed EDGE data networking and versatile GPS navigation technologies to meet global business and personal communication needs. With a built-in keyboard to easily compose email, notes, text and instant messages and data delivery rates up to four times faster than dial-up,(2) the new iPAQ will allow users to quickly stay connected to vital business information. A technology demonstration of the iPAQ Mobile Messenger is planned at the 3GSM World Congress later this month.

HP's worldwide mail and messaging strategy addresses the need of mobile professionals to access email and business data seamlessly and securely. HP plans to offer users a multitude of choices when it comes to accessing email and business data on the go while using an iPAQ.

Customers in a Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment can take advantage of a solution that goes far beyond basic text-based email messaging to allow full synchronization to their inbox, calendar, contacts and more. SMBs that don't deploy Exchange can use the new HP Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email Solution to get the same connectivity.

In addition, HP plans to include Good Technology's GoodLink software on future iPAQ releases, including the new Mobile Messenger device. The combination of HP iPAQ devices and GoodLink software delivers wireless access to corporate email, calendar, contacts and other information managed through Microsoft Outlook and Exchange environments. This iPAQ and GoodLink combination allows for a true "push" email solution, full synchronization of Outlook and robust device management and security.

Building on the success of the company's Smart Office framework, HP has expanded its mobile and wireless services and solutions to better meet growing demand and to provide SMB customers with reliable, high-quality products and solutions; local and specialized expertise; and a more simplified technology experience.

The new offerings include HP Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email Solution, a hosted mail and messaging service unsurpassed in its ease of use; HP wLAN Assessment and HP wLAN Installation & Start-Up, services designed to optimize wireless connectivity and ensure customers top performance and availability of their wLAN solution right from the start; and HP Mobile Agent, a bundled hardware and software solution designed for the insurance industry.
In addition, HP announced an update to its HP Mobile Printing for Pocket PC software. The latest version of this simple, easy-to-use software enables wireless printing from a handheld PC to a variety of HP printers and non-HP printers.

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