Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global communications, commerce, and media company with more than 145 million unique users worldwide, today announced the availability of Yahoo!(R) Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com), the Web's popular instant messaging, information, and notification service for the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC from Hewlett-Packard Company.
The HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC is one of the first Pocket PCs to offer Yahoo! Messenger.
Yahoo! Messenger for the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC can be downloaded for free by syncing the HP Jornada Pocket PC to a consumer's PC and accessing Yahoo! Mobile (http://mobile.yahoo.com), a Yahoo! service that enables users to manage their wireless and mobile communication needs from one convenient location. With Yahoo! Messenger and through Yahoo! Mobile, HP Jornada Pocket PC users will have access to personalized Web content such as address book, movie showtimes, calendar, sports, stock quotes, and local weather reports. The integration of Yahoo! Messenger adds interactive functionality to the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC, bringing the power of the Internet to the palm of users' hands.
"HP is pleased to bring Yahoo!'s popular Yahoo! Messenger and personalized Web content to our HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC customers," said Kok-Khoon Lim, general manager of HP's Asia Pacific PC division. "This further underscores HP's continued commitment to work with leading companies such as Yahoo!, as well as to deliver high value-added solutions for mobile users of the HP Jornada line of PC companions."
"Yahoo! is further expanding the reach of Yahoo! Everywhere --delivering solutions to enable Internet consumers to access the best the Web has to offer, anywhere at anytime -- by forging relationships with leading wireless networks and device manufacturers around the world," said Drew Lanham, senior director of Business Development, Yahoo! Inc. "By deploying Yahoo! Messenger for Microsoft CE, we hope to offer our installed base of consumers a simple and easy way to enjoy an important part of the Yahoo! experience when they're away from their desktop PC."
Yahoo! launched the Yahoo! Everywhere initiative to enable consumers around the globe to access Yahoo!'s Web content and services on data phones, personal digital assistants, pagers and an array of other alternative and wireless devices. To date, Yahoo! has entered wireless agreements with a number of service providers and manufactures of Web-connected devices as part of its Yahoo! Everywhere strategy. Palm Computing, Motorola, Sprint PCS, VTech and Cidco have teamed with Yahoo! to offer Yahoo! Web content and services to their consumers inside the U.S. Internationally, Bell Mobility in Canada, D2 Mannesman Mobilfunk in Germany, Siemens in Asia and Europe, and SmarTone and New World in Hong Kong, and Radiolinja in Finland have also joined with Yahoo! to distribute Yahoo!'s Web content and services to wireless phone consumers.
HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC users can easily access Yahoo! Messenger and personalized Yahoo! content using either a wired or wireless modem(1) accessory. Additionally, the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC's 65,536-color display presents the familiar Yahoo! look and feel in brilliant color for easy readability.
The HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC provides optimal business and entertainment features, such as a built-in MP3 player in stereo-quality sound, digital imaging software, single-handed access to e-mail, and easy PC synchronization using Microsoft ActiveSync 3.0 technology.
Availability and Pricing
Those who currently own the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC may download Yahoo! Messenger free of charge at Yahoo! Mobile (http://mobile.yahoo.com). The HP Jornada 540/545 Pocket PCs are available in North America now for an estimated U.S. street price of $499(2) and are backed by a one-year limited warranty. The HP Jornada 548 Pocket PC is expected to be available in late May for an estimated U.S. street price of $599.(2)
Yahoo! Messenger is also available on the HP Jornada 430se Palm-size PC and the HP Jornada 600 Series Handheld PCs.
Additional information about the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PCs and the Jornada family line can be found at http://www.hp.com/jornada.
[ Home | Contact | MobiChat | Experts database | Let's do it ]
Comments to the content of this page can be posted on the MobiChat discussion group