Nokia to license Quickoffice for its Series 60 platform

Quickoffice today announced a licensing agreement with Nokia that will include Quickoffice - the award- winning Series 60 office software suite - on the Series 60 Platform offering, providing users of Series 60 smartphones with easy and fast access to their native Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Nokia's Series 60 Platform is the world's leading smartphone platform, utilized by many of the leading mobile phone manufacturers worldwide. The combination of the Series 60 functionality with the Quickoffice software will offer business professionals worldwide the ability to open, view, edit and even print Office documents, such as contracts, business plans, or sales presentations, directly from their Series 60 smartphone.

"We are committed to providing users of smartphones with the best available software innovations as part of our platform offering," said Matti Vanska, Director, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. "The Quickoffice software suite, with its leadership and innovation, meets these criteria."

"As a long-term Nokia Forum PRO member, we have enjoyed a close business relationship and we are pleased that now Nokia has chosen Quickoffice to be included on the Series 60 platform," said Barry Cottle, CEO of Quickoffice, Inc. "As a leading global software product for the mobile business professional, Quickoffice is a great complement to Series 60 Platform in meeting the needs of the mobile professional."

The multiple award-winning Quickoffice Premier is the company's flagship smartphone software product. It is the leading portable computing solution for mobile device users supporting native Microsoft Office formatted files. Quickoffice Premier, with its unique native technology, enables the next generation of mobile productivity allowing users to view, edit, print and even present documents directly from their smartphone. The software design also includes the ability for End-users to receive future value-added applications to meet the evolving needs in the market.