TransMedia today extended its Glide Mobile data access service beyond Windows Mobile devices. Users can now manage, share and access video, music, documents, photos, contacts and e-mail with nearly any other PC or Mac user from their Motorola RAZRs and Sony Ericsson smartphones, which are built on the Symbian platform and UIQ interface.

With the service - an extension the previous PC/Mac only Glide Effortless offering - you can even send up to 40 GBs of files from your mobile handset to anyone in the world in a tiny 5k e-mail, according to the company. Rights can be assigned to files and contacts and managed equally well from a PC or mobile handset.

TransMedia Chairman and CEO Donald Leka said to PDAStreet, “The Glide Mobile software represents a shift away from device centric services like the Blackberry and the iPod increasing business and consumer choice. It also significantly reduces user dependency on the personal computer by increasing the functionality and usefulness of mobile devices.”

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The company says Glide is a centralized, rules based and identity based system designed to be device and network neutral that governs file sharing, communications and ecommerce. It functions as a universal translator breaking down proprietary software and format barriers.

All content streams through TransMedia servers on the way from once device to the other. So you never really hold tens of gigabytes of data on your handset; which wouldn't be possible anyway.

This makes file sharing, communications and - eventually - ecommerce - device and network neutral. As a result, users' controls who access their e-mail inbox, view their files and web publications and what's private and public on the Internet. They can also securely share files as viewable only, downloadable or modifiable, as well as upload files to and from virtually any computer or mobile device.

At the moment, DRM (digital rights management) solutions aren't supported. So, for now tunes purchased from iTunes, for example, aren’t accessible via a handset through Glide; although other - unprotected - music files in your iTunes folder can be.

In June, TransMedia said it would add support for Nokia 60 and 90 series smartphones as well as Palm OS devices, and ecommerce services.

Leka told PDAStreet a few weeks ago, "Glide Mobile is designed to empower users to securely share files with anyone regardless of device, OS, software or file format and control how their files are accessed. This technical breakthrough is made possible by the flexible, scalable and extensible Glide system architecture."

Stay tuned for our review of Glide Mobile.