Nokia is looking for some consumer insight and feedback to help it developer future versions of PC Suite. You can fill in this survey to offer your views on the current version. Nokia PC Suite evokes mixed reactions, some people love it while others find it slow and confusing. Personally I can't remember the last time I had a problem, a far cry from a few years ago when the software was a temperamental beast, but that doesn't mean usability can't be improved.
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My "discovery of the year" is the Nseries PC Suite and apps - more at
http://cubeover.blogspot.com/2007/12/pc-suites-revisited.html
Way to go, Nokia SCD! 😊 You rock! :icon14:
agree with bookmark backup/editing. i also put in for
-un-install application
-export of log
-way of editing calendar -inputting dates/times/deleting, etc
- export of SMS! options related to this - exporting sms between certain people
just one word: BLOATED
pc suite has grown unnecessary bloated and big package. it's even graphically (and conceptually) inconsistent, and pretty confuse. i can think hundreds of different application more stremlined and easy to use than pc suite.
if i had a choiche i'd never suggest to use pc suite.
the new web approach is the way to go, but they need really to stay down with megabytes and bloatware. just give us the damn straight applications, learn by google, keep it simple!
should not be that difficult, not at all
IMO, this has to be the most important feature - a backup/restore function that actually allows you to restore a phone after a hard reset, firmware update, or phone replacement/repair. At the moment, this only partly works.
yeah BLOATware... 60 megs of RAM for pc sync! and my calendar isn't exactly packed....
Why not let the user choose wich functions he/she wants. I for one never use the contacts and messages functions. I have outlook for that. And why is Software Update Util not bundled with the PC suite?
Question: If there are multiple profiles in Outlook 2003, can you choose wich one is to be tied to a specific device. I'm planing on getting my better half an E-series phone and we might end up sharing the computer (hers is getting sick😊 ). I am quite sure she would not want my appointment book reminding her of something all the time.
I loose my pc-connection for syncing every other day. Even if pc suite shows the phone (E61) connected, the sync-function finds no connected phone. I always have to repair the pc-connectivity-software in "system control/software". This really annoys me.
My main complaint is the handling of messages. I can't imagine what anyone responsible for the quality of PC Suite is thinking when they keep releasing it in the current state. And I said so in the survey... In my opinion it's sad to see it in the current state. It would almost improve the PC Suite if the took it out! /:
Unregistered wrote:
Question: If there are multiple profiles in Outlook 2003, can you choose wich one is to be tied to a specific device. I'm planing on getting my better half an E-series phone and we might end up sharing the computer (hers is getting sick😊 ). I am quite sure she would not want my appointment book reminding her of something all the time.
Yes you can. Just maintain different psts for your and your wife's set of emails and calendar entries. When you connect a phone, you can specify which Pst the phone should synchronize to. That way you get data from your respective pst on your respective phones...
I agree with G�ran on the messaging app. One of the worst I have seen. The thing i hate the most is it maintains a database from the last time I connected to the phone book to send an sms and automatically makes changes to the phone book based on the old database. This gives me duplicate names at times, I lose some changes made and couple of names disappear.
One thing that annoys me is the fact that I can't choose where the backup files should be saved. With SE PC Suite (for my P910i), you can choose which folder to use, but the Nokia PC Suite does not appear to offer this possibility...
With PC suite ver 6.85, Nokia has removed support for WIDCOMM drivers on Windows Vista. And I always thought, new version means extra functionality. I'm currently being forced to use version 6.84 on my Windows Vista PC as I have no plans to buy a new bluetooth device just because nokia doesn't want to support it anymore.
Come to think of it, device is available in the market, it fully supports Vista, version 6.84 works great with it on Vista, who's gone crazy at nokia?
malerocks - do you have pre-6.84 version? Update then from nokia.com/pcsuite
I think this bug was gone in 6.84, since I reported it and then seen it go.
Goran - and they took Messaging out of Nseries v2.0! Now you don't expect it to work and you don't feel the pain 😊
justwords - maybe try to update your bluetooth stack, or the phone software? Also try unpairing both on the PC side and the phone side, restart both devices, pair again. Sometimes pairing from the phone would work better than from PC, or vice versa! 😊
Sergey Zak wrote:malerocks - do you have pre-6.84 version? Update then from nokia.com/pcsuite
I think this bug was gone in 6.84, since I reported it and then seen it go.
Actually, I had faced this problem in one of the earlier versions, and didnt use the feature again for fear of again messing up the contacts. Am on v6.85 right now.
Unregistered wrote:One thing that annoys me is the fact that I can't choose where the backup files should be saved.
Yes, you can. Just before the screen where the backup starts, you get an option to choose the location. Probably you are on an (much) older version that did not have this option.
Make it Mac compatible.
That ought to satisfy millions of customers who are Mac users.
As someone said, it's BLOATED! 3 years ago, I tried it with 6670, uninstalled it. 3 years later, I tried it with N81, uninstalled it too...
In simple, Nokia should just make their phone work with Windows Mobile Device Center or ActiveSync, which is simple and sweet. PC Suite can then be added as a layer on top to serve people who prefer it 😊
Can you send/receive SMS and MMS from ActiveSync??? 😮
iPodTouchFanBoy - have you tried BluePhoneElite ? Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac? I am geniunely interested to know is there are features you need that are not covered but those two?
@Sergey Zak - There are software/freeware that can be used to send SMS/MMS over ActiveSync. The point for using ActiveSync/Windows Mobile Device Center is to support the basic connectivity and synchronization, leaving the user to select their preferred software for other purpose. Also, do note that I mentioned that PC Suite can be built as a layer on top to provide the same functionality for users who preferred it. This arranagement will provide flexibility to suite different users rather than forced to use PC Suite for everything.
Building products on top of Microsoft products may get you into trouble, if you're a competitor. And as of mobile platforms business, Nokia is a competitor. Additionally, PC Suite will evolve into multi-platform (MacOS X, Linux) product over the coming years, so one less reason to sit on top of anything MS-centric. Let them go their own way, we can only help with precise and compete bug-reports ("BLOATED!" is not one of them).
We are taking about making the product better, shouldn't be restricted by competition, shall leave it to the company to decide.
Currently, PC Suite only runs on Windows, and ActiveSync/Windows Mobile Device Center is the logical choice to built on. For other platform, just use their respective connectivity and synchronization technologies. Nokia can even built it's own "Nokia Sync" for the platforms if it want to. However, it would be best to use existing technologies, especially those that are built into the OS, providing PnP experiences for the users without installing any software.
For users who don't want a integrated suite or needs only basic connectivity and synchronization, PC Suite is BLOATED to them. By separating the connection layer and the application layer, Nokia can provide a better experience to more users, and in most case, makes PC suite more flexible and adaptable to different platform.
if they can tie up with microsoft to use Windows Media Player for ovi's music related services, they can also tie up with them for using Active Sync. I think this is the biggest improvement Nokia can bring to PC suite. PC suite has caused frustrations for me a few times and all of them were related to connectivity, its a top notch application otherwise. Nokia should accept what's not working for them and channelise their efforts towards improving it.
Nokia ought to fix PC Suite so that it does not create dual entries in your phone if you have an email address for someone. After an Outlook Sync, I always get another entry for a person's email where their first and last name are reversed and only the email is there. The email is removed from the normal original contact entry with their numbers. I know this has something to do with the way Outlook files, but surely Nokia's software people can stop drinking long enough to fix this annoying bug. And they should make the program a bit faster - it takes forever to back things up. Oh yeah, and get rid of the annoying set up where you have to check for an updated version of the software updater before you can update your phone - that is a daft way to do it. The software updater should tell you automatically whether you have an update based on your model when it connects to PC Suite, and download automatically.
IT'S TOO SLOW!!!!! The old one was much better! It used to store all of the messages on your PC and only download the new ones each time. Now it seems like it downloads the whole damn phone each time!
Phone : Nokia 2760
Complaint : Does not update the messages from the phone. Cannot send text messages. Does not connect when backing up data. Cannot sort contact duplication from SIM and phone memory.
The only thing it does is load the contacts and with duplicates at that.
POOR SHOW !