Smartphone Thoughts: IBM Adds Windows Mobile Support in Lotus Domino

"Mobile support for Lotus Notes and Domino Web Access users through IBM Lotus Notes Traveler- Following the shipping of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 that began worldwide in August, IBM is announcing Lotus Notes Traveler, a new client for Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1. Currently scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2008, Lotus Notes Traveler will provide out-of-the-box, mobile support for Lotus Notes and Domino Web Access users, enabling access to Lotus Domino mail from Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. As currently planned, Lotus Notes Traveler will provide automatic, real-time replication of email, including attachments, calendar, address book, journal and to-do’s and will work over all wired and wireless connections."

This is great news for anyone that's still using Lotus Domino (Notes) from IBM. It's good to see IBM offer support for Windows Mobile without the need for a third party application. However, we don't yet know how functional this will be in comparison to the current solutions. Personally, I hate Lotus Notes. I spent a couple years developing on Notes and I don't miss it at all.