Ovi Mail and Ovi Contacts FINALLY merge, plus Arabic support

Published by Steve Litchfield at 9:35 UTC, March 4th 2010

After almost a year of operation, the contacts in Ovi Mail and Ovi Contacts have finally been officially merged, with Ovi Mail 2.0, according to a Beta Labs post this morning. The overlaps between Ovi Mail, Nokia Messaging and Ovi Sync have always been somewhat grey, so at least this clears up one loose end. Some quotes and links below.

Here's a typical use case (from the Beta Labs post):

Save a contact and view it from your device:

  1. User opens an email from a friend in Ovi Mail on the web and sends a reply back
  2. Ovi Mail shows a dialog box asking if he wants to add the person to his address book.  User says yes and fills in the entries and clicks on ‘Add contact’
  3. Within a few minutes, the new contact appears in Ovi Contacts on the web because Ovi Mail now is integrated with Ovi Contacts
  4. User decides to sync his phone to get the newly added contact on his phone. User can either initiate a sync from device or from Ovi Contacts on the web to sync his contacts
  5. After the sync completes, user views the Phonebook on the device and the name of the friend and the newly added email address appear in the Phonebook on the phone

Also launched with Ovi Mail 2.0 is Arabic support. Over 280 Million people use Arabic as their first language. This was a challenging feature to implement, apparently, considering the fact that it’s a right-to-left language and the Ovi Mail UI had to be changed to support this orientation.

The Ovi Mail team invite you to "Please try it out at mail.ovi.com or on your device and let us know what you think here at Nokia Beta Labs."


 

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News Discussion

Ammar_Dento
Great, the Giant took a rest and now is working again, now i can recommand Ovi mail to my friends even if they speak arabic only. What should i ask for now? May be Calendar and Tasks in Ovi suite?
mukandi
This same functionality is already on the N900 and it better intergrated in the contacts are add into contact automaticly as you communicate within email. The user then has to merge the new contacts manually with any previously existing gsm number contacts with the coresponding email contacts. I think this move will make ovi mail and ovi contacts more intuitive for users as we all want the programe to understand how we communicate and how we are connected. This is a good progress.
Warnerbros
After almost a year of operation, the contacts in Ovi Mail and Ovi Contacts have finally been officially merged, with Ovi Mail 2.0, according to a Beta Labs post this morning.
rocky1
This is very nice to see.I really want this kind of site.Thanks for sharing this.Thanks to you.

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