MSN and Verizon Wireless announced that MSN Mobile is now available to Verizon Wireless customers with select Get It Now-enabled phones. The new MSN Mobile offering brings together mobile versions of MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger services in one application.

Verizon Wireless customers can download MSN Mobile from their wireless phones and enjoyed the enhanced features, including these:

• Personalized Hotmail and Messenger. Subscribers can access their MSN Hotmail inbox, compose e-mail online or offline, and set up personalized alerts so they are notified about important incoming e-mail messages, even when they are offline.
• Virtually always available. Subscribers don't need to maintain an active online data connection when they are expecting e-mail or an IM. MSN Mobile can be set up to send alerts to their phone when they have new e-mail messages or "wake up" their phone if someone is trying to reach them via IM. For IM, subscribers can log into MSN Messenger and then put their phone in sleep mode but still appear online to their contacts.
• Familiar MSN Experience. MSN Mobile offers an on-screen user interface that looks and feels like the MSN experience on a PC, making it easy for customers to download the application and immediately begin to use it. Common features with the PC version of MSN allow subscribers to use the same IM name on their phone and PC and share a single contact list, making it easy to send messages to friends, family and colleagues wherever they access Hotmail and Messenger. The availability of more than 60 standard emoticons for MSN Messenger makes it even more fun to express feelings and make an impression with MSN Mobile.