| Getting Lotus Notes content on your mobile phone was all the rage at least week's LotusSphere conference in Florida. IBM kicked things off by announcing the capability for users to securely send and receive e-mail on the iPhone with its new Lotus Notes Traveler Companion software. But IBM wasn't the only vendor going gaga for all things mobile at the annual gathering of Notes and Domino professionals.
Lotus Notes is no newbie to the mobile phone craze. In 2008, IBM unveiled Lotus Notes Traveler to fill the gap between the full Notes client, which requires the computing power of a full PC, and the ultralight iNotes client, which runs as a Web client, but is limited in functionality. Traveler gained support for the iPhone in the fall of 2008, and the software also supports RIM Blackberry and Nokia Symbian smart phones.
IBM made several announcements concerning Traveler last week. For starters, the company indicated that a future release of Traveler will support e-mail, calendaring, and contacts on Android versions 2 and 2.1, the new Google mobile phone OS that is challenging Blackberry and the iPhone in the mobile computing popularity contest.
IBM also announced Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, a new iPhone software product that adds encryption to the e-mail functionality of Traveler. The Companion product requires Traveler version 8.5.1, and is already available on the iTunes App Store, IBM says.
There was also some news for those who prefer Nokia's Symbian smart phones. IBM already supported the mobile platform with a slew of Notes, Domino, and WebSphere products. But in the future, Symbian users will be able to load Lotus Sametime onto the software and begin using it for unified collaboration, including presence awareness and click-to-call functionality. This should be available by the end of the year, IBM says.
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