Released a few days ago was Nokia's latest Mac suite, 'Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.4'. Labelled beta software, it looks to be holding the fort and preparing the ground for a full Ovi Suite for Mac in the next month. v1.4 requires the latest version of Leopard and features 'a new method for selecting the content to be transferred, various performance improvements and a new user interface for settings'. I've put together some screenshots from v1.4 below, for your delectation.
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What's odd is that Nokia Multimedia Transfer works with more phones than iSync. For instance, my N85 works with Nokia Multimedia Transfer out of the box, but I needed to download a driver from Nova Media to get iSync to work since Nokia hasn't released its own driver yet.
I was very happy using the previous version of NMT with my E71. NMT 1.4 has major issues with transfers:
1. When you start new transfers, it resizes the photos and converts the movies but for some reason uploads the actual size versions (movies unreadable by the phone). If you start transfers again, it uploads the resized/converted files (movies unreadable again).
2. The remaining time during movie conversion sits at 0:01.
3. With the previous version, if you disconnect the phone during conversion and connect it again some time after conversion has finished, it uploads the cached converted movie. This way you can use the phone away from the computer during conversion. In the same situation NMT 1.4 converts the movie again (no cacheing), which means you have to keep the phone connected during conversion.
I formatted my memory card and did a clean instal of NMT 1.4 hoping that this would resolve the issues but no.
Anyone having the same problems?
yay finaly the abiltiy to not convert videos at all.
It never recognized that my N93 would play iTunes Video Podcast just fine, so it took a lot of time to convert them to some lower quality, higher file size format that wouldn't even play properly on the phone.
Now I can finaly sync video podcasts to my phone automaticaly (with iTunes Smart Playlists).
The Only things I want now to have a completly amazing Nokia <> Mac Experience are:
- folder sync (to get divx movies and documets on my phone)
- the abilty to initiate an isync sync when a multimedia transfer sync is started (multimedia transfer syncs automaticaly when the phone is in range, isync doesn't)
- the ability to sync notes to leopards central notes database (maybe it could also be done by isync)