Funambol announced the general availability of Funambol v6, which improves open source push email, contacts and calendar for everyone. Funambol v6 enables mobile carriers and service providers to offer a low-cost push email solution that lets mass market consumers access Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL and other popular email services. It includes a new portal that automates over-the-air provisioning of mobile devices, a new open source Java ME push email client for commodity handsets, and capabilities to ease mass deployments.

The new Funambol Portal provides a one-step signup process for consumers, automates over the-air (OTA) provisioning of mobile devices, and has a "quick add" function that makes it easy for users to get their Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL and other email on their mobile. Users get a personal home page to manage contacts, calendars and mobile phones.

With v6, Funambol broadens its device compatibility even further by introducing the world's first open source Java ME push email client, called Funambol Email JAM (for Java Apps for Mobility). It is built on a new open source Java ME client framework that makes it quick and easy to build new mobile data applications.

Funambol Email JAM provides push email & PIM sync functionality and lets users access popular consumer email accounts. It is initially available for the many tens of millions of Motorola RAZR and Nokia Series 60 mobile devices.

Most of the Funambol v6 enhancements are in the open source Community Edition, which is generally available (GA) and can now be downloaded from www.funambol.com.