What is Ovi Suite?

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By Phil Barker on April 28,

2010 at 00:00,

If you have a Nokia mobile phone, the chances are you’ve already heard of Nokia’s Ovi Suite, but that doesn’t mean you’ve had the chance to check it out or get the best out of it. Ovi Suite is the software that lets you sync your Nokia with your PC, backing up your contacts and carrying out lots of other handy tasks. To find out more about Ovi Suite, join us after the break…

Nokia’s Ovi Suite takes over from where Nokia PC Suite left off, letting you connect your Nokia phone to your PC and carry out all manner of useful tasks. The most obvious reason to download and install Ovi Suite is the fact you’ll be able to back up your contacts with the click of a button – so if you lose your Nokia you’ll simply be able to head home and transfer all your friends’ details onto your next Nokia handset.

You’ll also be able to sync every other bit of data on your Nokia, from the bookmarks in your internet explorer, to your cherished messages, and you’ll even be able to send and receive text messages from Ovi Suite when your Nokia is hooked up to your PC.

Ovi Suite is also capable of looking after and syncing your PC music collection, and you’ll be able to download more using Ovi Music. Your photographs are also in safe hands, along with emails and your calendar – it’s amazing how much information your Nokia is capable of storing, so it makes sense to use Ovi Suite to keep a backup of everything.

There’s also Ovi Map Loader, which is one of the most useful applications we’ve seen for a smartphone so far, letting you download maps throughout the world for installation on your Nokia, so you won’t need an internet connection when using Ovi Maps 3.03 for turn-by-turn directions.

That’s Ovi Suite, then, and we’ll be bringing you a full guide on how to use it with all the individual features in the coming days.

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tom

Hey NokNok, don’t suppose you know if there is an Mac OS equivalent?
Mikey Bee

@Tom – Nokia Beta Labs is working on a Mac version of Ovi Suite, we know what much: http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-ovi-suite-20/suggestion/mac-version

In the meantime, you can sync your contacts and calendar using iSync
timo

After having used both Nokia PC Suite and Ovi Suite I have say that I’ve been very dissappointed with Ovi. The usability of Ovi has gone way down, for example whdn selecting recipients for an SMS it doesn’t distinguish btw normal phone number vs mobile number, you just have to know. And the user interface to send messages is really confusing; PC Suite: nice, clean and efficient. Most of the time I’d be using just few apps, like SMS or sync and in PC Suite those could be selected conveniently with right click from the info bar icon. Ovi needs to be launched in full and it’s a mammoth of program taking quite a while. There needs to come a major revamp of the program – back to basics!
Timo
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hi ive just bought the nokia n8 iv always had sonyericson pones so this is completely strange for me is there a charge to use ovi i no id have to pay for music games ect but is there a initinal charge when i click on this ovi pls let me no cause its askin for a email adress i dont want to do this if it cost me money just to look could u reply asap pls thaks pat
El Marko

Ovi Suite does not, in my opinion, “pick up where PC Suite left off.” In my experience, Ovi Suite removes many essential features available in PC Suite. C’mon, seriously? Nobody that could accept Ovi Suite’s concept of sync “details” as merely providing a count of altered records, on the phone and on the desktop, as an improvement over the detail provided by PC Suite. Heck, Ovi Suite doesn’t even provide a calendar or ability to view tasks on the phone. It appears to me that Ovi Suite marginalizes appointments and tasks, in favor of selling “Angry Birds” out of Ovi Suite. That’s nuts! I actually work for a living and I ask my smart phone to help me with that and my phone provider needs to value and care for my data. Ovi Suite’s ability to sync from desktop applications, such as Outlook, is – well, Ovi Suite just doesn’t sync data very well, at all.

A pretty interface does not cover up a dreadfully bad piece of software.

Nokia really messed up, with Ovi Suite, and then they showed their utter disregard and arrogance for their customer’s needs by ensuring the latest versions of PC Suite recognize the new phones (such as the N8) only long enough to announce that PC Suite definitely won’t sync with the N8. But at least version 7.1.30.9 of PC Suite syncs Outlook 2007 to the N8, almost flawlessly (well, as much as any of Nokia’s PC software works “flawlessly”).