The gradual roll out of Ovi.com and Ovi services continues. Newly available is Ovi Sync which syncs contact, calendar, to-do and notes between your handset and the Ovi.com web site. The front page of Ovi.com is now personalised to show synced information and, optionally, images streams from Flickr and Share on Ovi. Read on for more.
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I think Nokia has jumbled things up a bit. As you mentioned in the article, this service is similar to My Nokia Backup. What is the point in having multiple services with same functionality? It makes one of them redundant. Nokia should go to a central path, which, thankfully, Ovi is, but, presence of other services too make it confusing for the users. For example, why will I use Ovi Sync, when I am already using My Nokia Backup.
Why is sync not able to be scheduled to happen automatically? Same as goosync - if I have to manually sync it's pretty much useless to me.
*sigh*
It would be very useful to have a feature like blog entries on OVI.
Is blog available on OVI or is it planned to be added?
Is it me or it doesn't work with IE 8 Beta 2?!? 😞
Well, nothing really works with IE 8 yet :P
Suppose I have e90 now, but temporarily want to switch to 9300i, and then back again. So I need to transfer my data from e90 to 9300i and back. I also don't want to use Outlook and prefer some web-based backup isteat. I'm using ZYB now, but they only sync contacts and calendar, while Ovi seems to work also with Notes, so I'd like to try it. Does anybody know, though, whether Ovi's sync is model-dependent? I.e, if I sync e90 with Ovi, will it be able to sync this data with empy 9300i (or later in reversed way)?
mmm... tried with my E71 browser and the same problem, I am redirected to the old ovi.mobi page (whose "sync" link is not active).
maybe Ovi is not still available for us italians? :-/
I have tried to add my device to OVI twice now but I am still yet to receive any confirmation messages that save the sync settings on my N95. Anyone else having the same problem or is this just my operator not delivering messages in a timely manner?
Oh, and worked perfectly for me! N95-1 on AT&T, if it matters.
So cool seeing ovi coming together, now all I need is some kind of email solution in my front page, I'd love to use my [email][email protected][/email] address :P
Btw, in my account page I saw this:
Which leads to nseries.nokia.com, that doesn't exist.
Thanks for the article... I tried to sync my mobile with my ovi account today.. But it is acting weird.... After syncing my contacts, that some of the contacts are synced properly whereas for some only name is synced without any number.... I dont know what happened.... But i think these are the bugs in the first version.. So as of now I am not happy
If you're not getting a sync message to your phone, check your phone number. A + in front of the number helps make things snappy.
It seems there is the same problem of My Nokia Backup: no way I can receive the settings SMS, with or without eh + before my number... 😞
I suppose it depends on my network!
Can anyone post the settings here? Which password does Ovi Sync use on the phone? The Nokia Account one or a new one?
I suspect this service is for the UK only at the moment.
I'm in Italy, and, as others in this thread, I didn't receive the text message from Nokia with the settings. I've checked the phone number 3 times (yes, it has the initial +).
Worked perfectly for me! N82 on T-Mobile.
Great to see ovi coming together, just looking forward to email and chat too.
Maps, Share, Games, Files, Calendar and Contacts worked fine with Firefox, now I only have to go back to IE for music.
Just a pity the icons for Maps, Music, Share, Games, Files, Calendar, Contacts are not all present when on Music home page, Share home or Files home.
I wonder what's next for Ovi apart from unifying the logins.
A video service as rumoured?
An e-mail service as implied by the @ovi.com usernames on Nokia Chat?
I'd quite like to see the podcast and internet radio apps integrated into some kind of single Ovi service.
^I'm waiting for the Nokia Maps webapp shown a couple months ago, setting up routes and so in your browser and syncing it to the phone.
I just signed up and sync'd fine with N95 in Australia on Optus.
I've been looking for an application like this. Very Happy.
be nice if it supported the n75.
freak4mobiles wrote:Thanks for the article... I tried to sync my mobile with my ovi account today.. But it is acting weird.... After syncing my contacts, that some of the contacts are synced properly whereas for some only name is synced without any number.... I dont know what happened.... But i think these are the bugs in the first version.. So as of now I am not happy
It seems like if you assigned defaults numbers for contacts. Ovi does not add that number to Sync. I've removed my defaults and it will add to Sync just fine.
Nokia N95 8Gb Nam - AT&T
This may seem wrong. And please don't take this as a troll or rant. But I'm not sure I see any reason to use Ovi rather than, say, google. Granted, I have not used it yet. But based on what I have read, there are some great reasons why I should not switch over even if I buy a nokia:
1. I already have a google account. And actually a yahoo account, but that just languishes. Point being, it has to be a really compelling reason to switch over. QUESTION: Is the Ovi mail service free? Can it forward mail from other services (like accessing Hotmail with the Gmail interface...gmail allows this)
2. I can get google email and calander. Albiet, I have to use goosync for calander, and that requires actually pusing a button to update. I would bet money that soon people will be able to sync contacts too. More importantly, Google calander, although not the best, does have some group-scheduling functionality. My assisstant puts all my meetings in google calander, which I update wirelessly. There is permissions managment (basic though) sharing of different calanders. I'm also going to guess that Android / google will start allowing multiple calander syncs. So it is fairly good for business. Can Ovi do this?
3. I understand that Ovi will also give a common interface to file sharing/ storage, etc. There are free solutions out there though...most notably google. And Android will have true file SYNC (for office documents anyway). Ok. maybe it wont have that feature when it first comes out...but I would not be suprised. Point is, for the file-storage / sharing feature to be good, it has to have online / offline sync capability.
4. Being in China, I get my music from a number of p2p sites / systems and I pay $1.25 for CDs. That being said, the nokia music store to me is not a compelling feature. iTunes store is not compelling either, and when I did use a iPod (before I got frustrated with its low battery life and gave it away), I disabled the store features. iTunes IS a great interface...except for all the crap that comes with it and installs on the computer. I really think that to make the music feature work, the interface has to be THE BEST EVAR. Really...it can be. iTunes is good but can still be better. So Nokia music can be better. Some other features that can make this competitive (besides one-upping Apple on the basic UI) are:
Much better, graphical song-list managment
Integrate over-Wifi control function (to control music playing from computer, and tied in multi-media equipment)
Integrated over-Wifi stream function (to get music to handset)
Tie in to music / album info server like Windows Media player does, only make it more user friendly than WMP
ogami_ito _ I think that a perfectly fair comment. Clearly adoption of any Ovi service is going to be limited if you are already using another one. Basically there has to be a reason to switch.
However I suspect that for many these sorts of services will be completely new (think of Nokia's customer base size).
It'll be interesting to see how third party stuff gets integrated into Ovi. Its entirely possible that they could create an email widget / module which linked into Gmail etc - maybe with Nokia email service... One of Nokia key point about Ovi was being open to third parties - we've not really seen much of that yet.
I think its also about ease of use (the point you make with GooSync) and having the complete experience out of the box. Nokia still have a long way to go on this front of course. I think there will always be better individual services out there 9and Google is going to provide serious overall competition), but for pure breadth of service Ovi is / will be compelling. I wouldn't necessarily advise people to start using it now, but it is a pointer for the future.
The calendar experience you mention is interesting - I suspect most would see that as an Enterprise function and use Exchange or Intellisync for something like that. That said I think multiple syncs would be great (e.g. among a family) and hope it is something Nokia implements.
The file sharing you talk about if Files on Ovi which is available in its first version.
Received the connection details OK, and confirmed. All looked good, until I actually tried to Sync.
All I get on the phone is 'Server not responding'.
Anyone else getting this or know how to overcome it? Sync Connection is set up for sync.ovi.com, port 443
Frustrating.
Well I finally got my setup message delivered - think Orange was just being slow. In the Sync options there are other itmes that you can sync but are not enabled by default. One useful option would be the Bookmarks but I entered a remote storage path as ./Bookmark/Unfiled (same format as for the others) but I get an error syaing database not found. Looking at the sync site it looks like bookmarks aren't supported yet, but will be a useful further addition when I end up wiping my phone clean and starting again.
what a mess...
Several versions of Nokia Suite (standard, N, Ovi), multiple logins (Ovi, Share on ovi, My Nokia, Nokia shop etc.), several websites with the same functionality (Nokia Backup and now Ovi Sync).
How can they expect "typical" users to understand this?
This reminds me of Microsoft - so big, that it's almost out of control, one group doesn't know what other groups are doing...
Works like a charm. No problems, I did what instructions told and sync was success. Using N78 from Finland.
Works like a charm. No problems, I did what instructions told and the sync was a success. Using N78 from Finland.
Unregistered wrote:It seems there is the same problem of My Nokia Backup: no way I can receive the settings SMS, with or without eh + before my number... 😞I suppose it depends on my network!
Can anyone post the settings here? Which password does Ovi Sync use on the phone? The Nokia Account one or a new one?
Has anyone resolved the not getting sms settings issue? Ihave tried every possible way +1, 001 but no luck. Its been a day and still no message. Can someone please post the sync setting? Also which account do we sign on with?
NOTE: do exclude your username and password
Well, whenever I try to access www.ovi.com, all I get is the mobile frontpage (http://www.ovi.mobi/ovi/app/ovi/index) and no ability to sign in or use sync. I am fully registered and can access my profile but nothing else. Same thing happens on both my PC and my N95. I'm in the UK, BTW.
Not happy.
I've just tried it from my E90 (in The Netherlands). For some reason my calendar doesn't sync; I can see my Contacts on ovi.com, but the calendar remains empty. Very odd...
Actually, I've just discovered that if I search in the calendar, my reminders are there; they just don't appear in the calendar view itself. Looks like some kind of refresh issue. I thought it might be down to using Firefox, but I've just treid viewing my calendar in IE 7, and still no joy...
I've also now discovered that not all contacts are there either(and they really are missing, as they are not found when I search for them). Some work needed methinks...