Nokia is working with Hewlett-Packard to let customers print content from their mobile phones.
Nokia, which sells about 39 percent of the world's mobile phones, plans to add printing capabilities to its Series 60 phones, including more advanced wireless devices like the handset maker's upcoming n-Gage gaming phone. Nokia has teamed up with HP to design an application for the phones and expects to sell printer-friendly phones sometime later this year. The printers and mobile phones will connect using Bluetooth, a powerful, but short-range wireless technique.
HP believes modern wireless devices have grown sophisticated enough to receive and store information that someone would want to print. For example, camera phones could print snapshots or a traveling salesman storing his calendar on a mobile phone could print out his day's itinerary, Nokia said.
Nokia is the third handset maker to sign on to HP's effort, launched in October. Both Research In Motion, which helped develop the printing feature with HP, and Sony Ericsson intend to add the same feature to some of their own wireless devices, company representatives said.
RIM and HP already are selling the technology directly to US businesses. Companies are charged US$35 per person, per year, to outfit businesses with 100 or less employees. The price drops to US$18 per user, per year for more than 100 employees, up to 1,000 people, HP said.
HP also is working with PalmSource to make the technology available for handhelds based on the Palm operating system, HP said.
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