Comments on: Macs and Nokia: Can we just work together? Uh, we do.

By: Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:23:22 +0000

Hi Everyone! You can also sync your Mac and Nokia with SyncMate (http://www.sync-mac.com/) Moreover, you can sync these devices for free!
SyncMate is offered at two editions: Free and Expert. With SyncMate Free you can sync contacts and calendar in your mac, read Nokia SMS directly on your Mac.
Expert Edition allows analyzing Calls history and managing your SMS from the Mac (writing, sending, deleting).
Details can be found here: http://www.sync-mac.com/syncmate-features.html
Btw, SyncMate also syncs your Mac with Windows Mobile devices, other Macs or PCs, PSP, USB flash drives, Google account and online storage.

By: lakshmi

lakshmi — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:49:47 +0000

Vadiraj,

Really goog idea, this helps the customer very much.

lakshmi

By: Srini

Srini — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:49:04 +0000

@Vadiraj,

Really goog idea, this helps the customer very much.

lakshmi

By: Vadiraj

Vadiraj — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:33:57 +0000

New Technology that can be incorporated in Nokia Mobiles( which is having Infrared option).

Car central locking system which is done by using Infrared signals. The same signal can be stored in mobile, these signal can be used to unlock the door when central locking system key is lost.

This additional feature can be incorporated for customer usage.

By: Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:37:00 +0000

I see your point, I must be honest I am not affected by most of that simply because I don’t use N-gage and Nokia Music store, like many Nokia products, are not availabne in South Africa.

Appologies on my part for that.

It has always been my fight that software developers in general are one track minded when it comes to OS compatibility as you have seen here. The gold medallion that Microsoft waves in front of everyone to hypnotise them like sheep needs to stop. Yes they do have a majority share mainly because the buyers have all got eyes swirling around following the unstable Windows platforms like zombies.

I for one, have broken free of that terrible cycle as have you. Lets hope for your sake that things improve in the future, For now I will continue to promote Mac for the stable and wonderful computing it offers

By: Rita El Khoury

Rita El Khoury — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:21:51 +0000

Kyle, I have Parallels on my mac so I know about bootcamp, Parallels and VMware :p
But we could argue for hours whether Boot Camp is Mac or Windows because as u said, u have to have windows on, and if everything u do on windows can be eventually copied to the mac, there’s still the music u purchased over nokia music that will only work on windows.

As for N-Gage downloads, did you EVER try downloading over the PC? You get a small Zip file. Extract. It’s a .exe file. Yes .EXE! You run the .exe to download the .sis. Eventually, you CAN use Boot Camp to run the .exe, but we’re back to question number 1: is Boot Camp Mac or Windows?

I have to keep 20GB out of my 160GB hard disk for windows xp on my mac. Why? ONLY because of Nokia’s software. Nothing else requires me to have XP!

By: Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:28:18 +0000

Once again I mention BOOT CAMP… for all those Windows based programs like Map Loader and NSU, which I mentioned in my first post, you can easily install Windows XP/Vista on a separate partition of the hard drive.

N-gage downloads??? Simpley put the phone in mass storage mode and transfer the .sis file to a folder to install it on the phone……

By: Rita El Khoury

Rita El Khoury — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:25:20 +0000

Oh and Katica is right, the first one to mention the Mac Ovi Suite job is renegadefanboy, and I cited him in the “Via” at the end of the post on Symbian-Guru

By: Rita El Khoury

Rita El Khoury — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:22:38 +0000

First of all, thanks for the mention Charlie. But to improve the usefulness of your post, I want to point out to the FIRST post I wrote about S60 and Mac: http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/10/a-walk-on-the-other-side-s60-mac-a-match-made-in-heaven.html
As you see, I clearly and blatantly stated that in SOME aspects, I had a better experience on a Mac than on my previous PC. YES, Nokia Multimedia Transfer is awesome, yes iSync is great. I’m not arguing about those (wink at Kyle Smith, before commenting that I know zilch about Macs, take the time to read the posts i’ve written :p )

What I’m arguing about is Nokia Music, Ovi Suite, Nokia Software Updater, Nokia Maploader, and on-computer N-Gage downloads. NONE of these work on a Mac, at least not that I know of (i’ve been using macs for less than 3 months). I’m talking about Nokia’s SERVICES, you know, that abstract thing Nokia has been shouting about for about a year now. If they want to make it on the Services front, they need to support everyone.

(I also wrote a bit about Linux, if you care, though I haven’t tried it myself: http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/10/a-walk-on-the-other-side-s60-linux-exploring-the-dark-corners.html)

By: Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:45:31 +0000

This is ludicrous… almost 3/4 of the functionality made available by PC suite on Windows is available out of the Box with a Mac. Music, Photo and Video transfer can be performed quite easily even without Media Transfer. Modem connectivity is as easy as 123 and for synhronisation iSync has been around for years…

How can these so called Mac users (who clearly can’t use Macs properly) be so naive…

I am a proud Mac user and have had no issues thus far other than NSU which Bootcamp takes care of quite easily.

Come on already!