Nokia demonstrates Ovi updates

[Rafe]

Today, in an online event, Nokia summarised and demonstrated its recent additions to the Ovi.com service offering: Ovi Suite - a PC software offering media management and phone sync, Files on Ovi - an online file storage and remote access to PC files, and Ovi Sync - a service which syncs contacts, calendar events and notes to Ovi.com. Read on for more details.

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[fernando20]

they need to make sync.ovi.com redirect to http://www.ovi.com/services/

edit: ovi has a jingle now?

[viipottaja]

Eww.. all of those cheery, happy, bright colors.. reminds me of that horrible fruit company - too cartoonish for my more mature tastes..

Otherwise: I am impressed - as far as I know no other phone company or even a 3rd party developer has anything coming close to even this level of integration.

I love how the puzzle in the promovideo is not complete at the end!

[fidolatry]

So I guess I'm the only person in the world who can't get an activation SMS for this service...?

Is it just a coincidence or on purpose that Nokia chose to release its new version of Ovi on the same day as Apple's iTunes 8.0 release?

I must admit both look very very similar...

It'd be more useful if it could sync with Outlook on your desktop.

[Ratkat]

Anyone else having problems syncing Memos (All day Events) from the E71 to Ovi Sync?

When I sync a Memo created on the E71 it always ends up as a Appointment from 00.00 to 23.00 over two days.

I contact Ovi Support about the problem and got an interesting reply, here is the message I sent.

1 - All Days Events (Memos) created on the my Nokia E71 fail to sync correctly with Ovi Sync, showing instead as an appointment spanning two days.
2 - All days events created on Ovi Sync, show on the E71 with an reminder alarm even when none is selected.

The reply was....

Thank you for emailing Nokia Careline.

'With regard to your enquiry, I would advise you to ensure that your device is not used to synchronise with other applications. If your device is synchronised with different applications (e.g. Mail For Exchange, Intellisync, etc.), the data will be corrupted. As such, please ensure that the calendar entries are created on the phone or on the OVI website only and not synchronised with other applications.'


That was helpful, not.....especially as it only effects memo created on the E71 and Ovi, but might serve as warning for others syncing to other services.

[Rafe]

Originally Posted by fidolatry

So I guess I'm the only person in the world who can't get an activation SMS for this service...?

Andrew you could try putting the settings in manually:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum...1&postcount=33

Is the 6220c supported?

[martinharnevie]

I would only be interested in a thing like this if it offers integrated clipboard over Bluetooth, i.e. copying of text, pictures or files on phone and paste on PC (or vice versa).

[Sergey Zak]

There's something wrong with Nokia product design&management.
WHY would using Nokia App1 (PC Suite) and Nokia App2 (Ovi Sync) for syncing cause data loss and corruption? And only a workaround is all you get in response???
It's like, if, using Microsoft Outlook for sending e-mail, and then later accessing it via Outlook Web Access would corrupt your mailbox??? Crazy dinosaur stuff...
Maybe - focus just on hardware, and leave s/w to Android?

Calendar sync can't deal with all-day events properly, appointments come across fine with the right times but all-day events appear in Ovi one day earlier than they appear on the phone (N95). Not impressive. As usual Nokia's support don't seem interested in looking into it.