A new native Facebook application has now become available. This app for Windows Mobile boasts a wide range of features, including the ability to upload video from the phone directly to Facebook. Users will additionally be able to access status updates, friend requests and photo tags, and read / create wall posts, share photos, send messages and update profile pictures too.

The application will integrate across other Windows Live services as well, where Facebook users can share their updates, comments and more. The download is free, and Microsoft indicated that a version compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 will be available soon, as and when that platform goes live.

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Windows Live Hotmail is now available on Nokia Messaging, a service that lets users access their personal email on their Nokia devices. From May, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will also support Nokia Messaging. Nokia Messaging is currently free to download and set-up, and supports Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail and many more providers. Easy to use, it enables access of up to 10 personal email accounts on a Nokia device through one single interface. Email accounts on Nokia Messaging can be added to the service directly on the phone, as well as via the Nokia Messaging website.

Nokia Messaging will be later made available on 20 different device models worldwide, including the Nokia E75, which is the first device to come preloaded with Nokia Messaging, Nokia E71, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia N79, Nokia E55, Nokia N97 and Nokia N86. Existing Nokia users can download the latest Nokia Messaging software – instructions can be found at http://email.nokia.com.

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PhoneArea’s always trying to get you the latest and hottest news, as and when it happens, in the mobile phone industry. Here is some more interesting stuff for you guys. Microsoft has now released an updated version of its Windows Live Messenger, especially for Symbian S60 devices. The new version works like a dream on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s screen. The same results are expected with the Nokia N97 too, once it enters the markets.

You all know by now that Windows Live Messenger is a mobile client for Microsoft’s popular instant messaging service, which lets users chat with your MSN and Windows Live contacts while on the go. Now you can access this and much more with Windows Live Messenger for your Symbian 5th Edition devices – sounds like good fun, huh?

Windows Live Messenger

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Mobile social networking is hot in mobile space and now manufacturers are putting it in their devices as part of preloaded features. Before that it was flickr Add-on on Nokia handsets and now its RIM BlackBerry which has partnered up with Microsoft to integrate rich “Live Search” capabilities into the BlackBerry Browser and BlackBerry Maps.

With this feature BlackBerry smartphone owners can use Microsoft Live Search as their search engine in the BlackBerry Browser. This feature will allow BlackBerry users to search for weather forecasts, restaurants, news headlines, images, stock quotes, or websites. Interesting part of this collaboration is that Windows Live Hotmail for BlackBerry will allow customers to display HTML e-mail with the ability to view graphics, Web links, and contact photos in emails.

BlackBerry smartphone customers will also be able to enjoy easy mobile access to Windows Live Messenger. As part of this RIM Microsoft deal Live Search for BlackBerry smartphones will be available later this year with multiple languages support.