Ovi Sync now available, Ovi.com gets personal

[Rafe]

The gradual roll out of Ovi.com and Ovi services continues. Newly available is Ovi Sync which syncs contact, calendar, to-do and notes between your handset and the Ovi.com web site. The front page of Ovi.com is now personalised to show synced information and, optionally, images streams from Flickr and Share on Ovi. Read on for more.

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[sandy_1988]

I think Nokia has jumbled things up a bit. As you mentioned in the article, this service is similar to My Nokia Backup. What is the point in having multiple services with same functionality? It makes one of them redundant. Nokia should go to a central path, which, thankfully, Ovi is, but, presence of other services too make it confusing for the users. For example, why will I use Ovi Sync, when I am already using My Nokia Backup.

Why is sync not able to be scheduled to happen automatically? Same as goosync - if I have to manually sync it's pretty much useless to me.

*sigh*

It would be very useful to have a feature like blog entries on OVI.
Is blog available on OVI or is it planned to be added?

Is it me or it doesn't work with IE 8 Beta 2?!? :-(

[fernando20]

Well, nothing really works with IE 8 yet :P

Suppose I have e90 now, but temporarily want to switch to 9300i, and then back again. So I need to transfer my data from e90 to 9300i and back. I also don't want to use Outlook and prefer some web-based backup isteat. I'm using ZYB now, but they only sync contacts and calendar, while Ovi seems to work also with Notes, so I'd like to try it. Does anybody know, though, whether Ovi's sync is model-dependent? I.e, if I sync e90 with Ovi, will it be able to sync this data with empy 9300i (or later in reversed way)?

mmm... tried with my E71 browser and the same problem, I am redirected to the old ovi.mobi page (whose "sync" link is not active).

maybe Ovi is not still available for us italians? :-/

I have tried to add my device to OVI twice now but I am still yet to receive any confirmation messages that save the sync settings on my N95. Anyone else having the same problem or is this just my operator not delivering messages in a timely manner?

[fernando20]

Oh, and worked perfectly for me! N95-1 on AT&T, if it matters.

So cool seeing ovi coming together, now all I need is some kind of email solution in my front page, I'd love to use my fernando@ovi.com address :P

Btw, in my account page I saw this:



Which leads to nseries.nokia.com, that doesn't exist.

[freak4mobiles]

Thanks for the article... I tried to sync my mobile with my ovi account today.. But it is acting weird.... After syncing my contacts, that some of the contacts are synced properly whereas for some only name is synced without any number.... I dont know what happened.... But i think these are the bugs in the first version.. So as of now I am not happy

If you're not getting a sync message to your phone, check your phone number. A + in front of the number helps make things snappy.

It seems there is the same problem of My Nokia Backup: no way I can receive the settings SMS, with or without eh + before my number... :-(

I suppose it depends on my network!

Can anyone post the settings here? Which password does Ovi Sync use on the phone? The Nokia Account one or a new one?

I suspect this service is for the UK only at the moment.
I'm in Italy, and, as others in this thread, I didn't receive the text message from Nokia with the settings. I've checked the phone number 3 times (yes, it has the initial +).

[jpwbamber]

Worked perfectly for me! N82 on T-Mobile.

Great to see ovi coming together, just looking forward to email and chat too.

Maps, Share, Games, Files, Calendar and Contacts worked fine with Firefox, now I only have to go back to IE for music.

Just a pity the icons for Maps, Music, Share, Games, Files, Calendar, Contacts are not all present when on Music home page, Share home or Files home.