Nokia added Windows Live services to its European handset line, u...
Nokia added Windows Live services to its European handset line, under an arrangement with Microsoft, it said Thursday. Nokia customers in eleven countries with compatible S60 devices can now download the Microsoft suite. Next year, Nokia plans to give…
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Windows Live access to Series 40 phones, it said. The suite includes Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger Contacts and Spaces, it said. Nokia customers with the Nokia N73, N76, N80 Internet Edition, N93i and N95 devices can get Windows Live in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Nokia said. Nokia hasn’t made a similar announcement in the United States, perhaps because U.S. carriers have more say about device partnerships than do their European counterparts, said Current Analysis’ Avi Greengart. Nokia probably teamed up with Microsoft because it noticed increasing popularity for devices “tightly tied to services” like Windows Live, Greengart said.