IBM Brings Lotus Domino Web Support to the iPhone via iNotes

by Jody Mitoma on August 8, 2008 at 7:40 pm

Many have been bothered by the fact that the iPhone lacks support for Lotus Notes, but IBM is in the works for this issue to be resolved soon.

“Bring IBM® Lotus® Domino® email, calendar, and
contacts to your Apple iPhone. Planned for delivery in 2008 as IBM
Lotus iNotes™ software, Lotus Notes data will combine with the flexibility and connectivity of the Apple iPhone.
To be built on the time tested IBM Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure, users will be able to quickly access email, calendars, and contacts through the rich Apple iPhone user experience.”

IBM is offering a sneak peak of Lotus iNotes, a web client for its Lotus Domino messaging server. The interface will offer e-mail, calendar, and contacts support, which is said to “bring the enterprise to your Apple iPhone”.

IBM published a series of screenshots of the
new interface (along with a disclaimer stating that they were subject
to change without notice). The screenshots show the following support:

email, calendars, and contacts access
email inbox
showing/hiding email details
quickly composing or replying to email
attaching and sending files
the day-at-a-glance calendar view
viewing details on meetings, all-day events, reminders, and anniversaries
viewing an organized view of your contacts
viewing detailed information on individual contacts or groups of contacts
quickly creating new contact entries

IBM has worked with the Windows PC platform quite a bit in the past, so it’s nice to see the company making a change, working with Apple’s iPhone device on this one.

More information in regards to Lotus Domino can be found here.

And now, some screenshots (click to enlarge):