Nokia Goes with Microsoft Live Search

Nokia has announced it will integrate Microsoft's Live Search into its own Mobile Search platform.

Finland’s Nokia, the world’s number-one mobile handset maker, announced today it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Live Search into Nokia’s own Mobile Search platform for Nokia Nseries and S60 mobile devices.

“Adding the advanced searching capabilities of Microsoft’s Live Search to our Mobile Search platform provides our customers with unique and powerful new ways to search the internet on their multimedia computers and many other compatible Nokia mobile devices,” commented Ralph Eric Kunz, Nokia’s VP of Multimedia Experiences. “The Mobile Search platform is dedicated towards creating a user experience that is easy to access and optimally integrated into other functions of the device.”

Microsoft Live Search will provide Web search results in 14 languages, as well as information and data functions like movie times, stock quotes, and (in some markets) reference information via Encarta Quick Answers. Nokia users will be able to launch searches without first navigating to Web pages of a search provider, and in many case search functionality will be available from the menus of Nokia’s mobile “multimedia computers.”

The Mobile Search application will be bundled with Nokia’s N80 Internet Edition, N73, N93, N70, N71, 6630, 6680 and 6671 handsets; it will also be available as a free download for select Nokia S60s.