Products & Services
Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 breaks cover
By JBC on 25 June 2009
GLOBAL – Ovi Suite is evolving and that’s clearly in evidence with the release of the new 2.0 beta version today on BetaLabs. Eventually Ovi Suite will replace all your Nokia software with one simple, elegent yet powerful piece of software that’ll handle all the tasks you’d expect it to for your device. Designed to bring your PC and device together as one, you can use it to sync and back up your device, manage your messages, download and install free maps and keep your device’s firmware up to date. This latest version takes the most important features from Nokia Software updater, Nokia Map loader and Nokia Photos and integrated them into one single application. You can also access key Ovi services by signing in with your Ovi login.
The app was developed from the ground up using Nokia Qt Software, the cross platform developing application and UI framework. The folks at BetaLabs have prepped a short video which highlights the key features and shows off the tasty interface. Let us know what you think once you’ve had a look.
If you want to download the new version of Ovi Suite, head over to BetaLabs. Sorry fellow Mac users, it’s Windows only for the minute.
Related posts:
- Qt 4.6 lands, brings multi-touch and gestures
- Nokia N97 mini on sale this week
- Nokia 6720 Classic quietly breaks mould
Tags | Nokia Ovi Suite 2
June 25th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Let’s hope that also a linux version is in the pipeline: that would be wonderful!!!
Reply
Jacob Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
@pier, I am Linux user too. Since the Ovi Suite has been made by Qt platform, I wonder if it is too big deal to make e.g. Ubuntu distribution.
Reply
June 26th, 2009 at 6:51 am
On comment #15 of the following post, you can find the opinions of developers about Linux support.
http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2009/06/23/nokia-ovi-suite-20-the-one-and-only-nokia-desktop-application-in-the-future
Reply
June 26th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Great suite but it took me ages to figure the error i’ve encounter. Before installing ovi suite you must uninstall NSeries PC Suite and all its components and run the PC Suite Cleaner or else this wont worked.
I just hope beta labs explained this process as part of the instruction so consumers wont have a hard time figuring things out.
Reply
June 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Shame still no support for Mac
Reply
January 7th, 2010 at 12:08 am
I like the new Ovi Suite, but it has some issues. There should be an option for E-Series phone users for a more business like interface. I don’t need all the fancy animation, I don’t need or want the Apple like SMS interface with conversations. I love my Nokia phones (I’ve only ever owned Nokias phones 5100 series, 8260, 3600 (the original), N95-3, E71) I want my SMS’s displayed the way the old PC Suite does, handle it like it’s email, not conversations, just like the phone does. SMS is exactly that Short Message Service, sure you can string a bunch of text messages together, but they are essentially independent of the other, a link to the response sent (which is in the Sent folder) would be nice, but not needed. I have a few other gripes, such as the combined menu bar/title bar, as I would prefer these to be separate, they way 99% of other applications are designed. I understand a lot of people disagree with me, but I am sure would like the option.
Reply