A version of Lotus Notes from IBM is at last available for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as a web download from IBM, allowing users to check their Notes e-mail and view their calendar and contacts, IBM announced. It is not available in the App Store, according to IBM.

The iNotes Ultralite download comes with IBM’s Lotus Notes software 8.0.2 tailored for the iPhone, which is designed to offer better performance than earlier versions and uses 20% less memory. The new version also offers an update of Lotus Symphony, the free alternative to Microsoft Office for preparing documents and spreadsheets.

Once the software is set up on the iPhone, IBM iNotes can be accessed via the phone’s Safari browser. Users can also add the Lotus Mobile Connect VPN for better security. This was announced originally in March, so it’s nice to see that the product finally saw the light of day.