IBM’s new Lotus iNotes for iPhone is finally expected to come out later this year. iNotes, a web app client for the Lotus Domino messaging server, is set to bring email, calendar, and contacts to iPhone. Obviously this proves IBM’s growing interest on Apple’s products and iPhone is a definite choice for that. 

Lotus iNotes, which the company says “will combine with the flexibility and connectivity of the Apple iPhone” is built on IBM’s existing Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure. IBM promises to bring the enterprise to Apple iPhone and a “rich Apple iPhone user experience”.

It’s expected that the release of iNotes for the iPhone and iPod Touch may drive adoption of these devices by business users. But not everyone seems to agree with that. Like Kevin McIsaac, an analyst at research firm IBRS said “I can’t really imagine someone who’s really hip and cool like an iPhone user wanting to use Lotus Notes”.

Whatever the initial responses are, it’s expected that IBM will deliver something that will attract a lot of business customers.  Apple already said after the iPhone firmware 2.0 announcements that over one third of Fortune 500 companies had sought access to the company’s ongoing iPhone Enterprise Beta program. So there’s obviously a huge demand there.

Here’re few screenshots of the apps. Click on the images to view the full size.

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