Nokia’s Ovi service was originally a simple photo-sharing system that took emailed, uploaded, and MMSed images from your phone or computer and put them online. Fair enough. Now, however, Nokia is adding some compelling features to the online suite to make it considerably more usable for personal and enterprise PIM and file sharing purposes.
The first and most important update is their file sharing system. After installing the Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC or laptop – it doesn’t work with Mac although there is some talk this will be remedied – you can visit all of your files remotely via a browser on your phone or on another computer. You can preview and download any file – from documents to your CONFIG.SYS file – and upload files to your computer. Obviously you have to have your computer on to do this, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Nokia has the biggest opportunity in the world but so far OVI isn’t really getting it.
“After installing the Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC or laptop”. Nokias biggest markets are where people don’t have computers. Everything should be over the network – this approach is crazy.
Nobody here cares, even though Nokia PWNS worldwide market share.
The iPhone owns 99.9% of TechCrunch market share. That’s all you need to know.
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I was all set to delete TechCrunch from my RSS feeds — have you suddenly caught a clue?
AC, it’s a slow news day. Mike’s down for the count after seeing too much sausage at the party last night.
There is a litle error in the article:
“Obviously you have to have your computer on to do this”
There will be a paying option that movesall your files online…..meaning you do not need to have your pc on anymore to access all your files.
Also, the comment about this:
“After installing the Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC or laptop”
is also not quite right. You do NOT need to install the ovi suite. Its an additional software for people who like to get a perfect integration with a computer. You do not need this in anyway to use ovi. You can share files, sync your contacts, calendar, notes over-the-air etc.
All in all, Ovi.com is a fantastic offering. Compare that to mobile.me from Apple.
1. You have a perfectly working over the air sync solution for calendar, notes, contacts.
2. You have file access from your mobile phone that works great.
3. You have the fantastic share service that you can even use when you dont have a nokia phone. The interface is on a level with flickr (i think this service was called twango before Nokia bought it), it has NO upload limits, just a 100MB per file limit. You can upload ANY file: there is like 100 formats supported. music, picture and video files can be viewed directly online.
The other services are ngage, maps (which is also great as you can download maps to your device, making a network connection on the phone unnecessary).
So anybody who says ovi.com is crap or not competitive……. I dont see ANY online service offering the features and power of ovi for free.
The Share on Ovi interface is on a level with flickr? Have you ever used flickr? From an interface point of view Ovi is just one thing: inconsistent. Check the main navigation in the different sections like share or music.
“Access your PC files from the mobile” – I suspect this is the integration of Avvenu service that Nokia acquired last year.
this is wrong :
“Obviously you have to have your computer on to do this”
other correct , thanks.
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