I recently purchased a 3650 based on its capabilities as a simple pda & its ability to synchronise with MS Outlook via Bluetooth. The phone itself is superb but synchronising is a nightmare & I have yet to succeed in installing any software on it with the Nokia 3650 PC Suite - a piece of software that brings new meaning to the word flaky.
My PC is a Sony VAIO and my OS is XP Home Edition.
Attempts to synchronise using a Planex Bluetooth dongle proved fruitless and after contacting Club Nokia I was advised to purchase a Socketcom PCMCIA Bluetooth card - at around twice the price of the dongle. I duely procured the card and was delighted when everything worked. However the next day I found absolutely nothing would work. A profusion of error messages appeared and the PC Suite would not connect to the phone. Only after uninstalling Bluetooth & the Nokia PC data suite then rolling back XP and re-installing could I get things working again. Within a day, however, things had once again gone pear shaped.
I was told by Club Nokia that "this was a known problem" with PC Data Suite when used with XP.
Has anybody else experienced these problems and is there a solution or a 3rd party app I can use in place of PC Suite?
I'd also like to know) Why was the PC Datasuite not properly tested with the bluetooth card Nokia themselves recommend and Microsoft's current home edition OS? 2) If the problem is known, why has no fix or new version of PC Datasuite been released? The version on the Nokia site is was released in November (not Feb, as I learned to my cost after wasting 2 hours downloading it). Finally, 3) Why was I advised to spend �120 on a piece of kit that would not provide a usable solution? (having to follow the procedure outlined above to be practical every time I want to synchronise is not my idea of practical.)
I realise Nokia see the 3650 is primarily a "fun" phone rather than a business phone but surely that's no excuse. Also I can't install the "fun" add-ons either :cry: