Nokia Chat updated - bug fixes and lower power consumption
Hey,
What a summer, huh? To be honest.. we haven’t had too many sunny days here in up north, so most of our team has returned back to office already. To brighten up things, we wanted to address some of the problems that our ever-faithful Beta labs audience had encountered with our first release.
To sum up in short: We’ve got an updated version of Nokia Chat available, please download.
Naturally quite a bit of small errors have been eliminated after the releasing of the previous version. Problems resolved list contains fixes to some voice message related malfunctions and should resolve some connectivity related problems. Especially the battery lifetime should be improved from past in situations when the app is set to “Automatic” connection mode and you are in between WLAN and Cellular network often. In the comments, there was a note that someone got error when entering the Phonebook - this shouldn’t happen anymore.
Also somebody was hoping to be able to open a link from the chat conversation, and it totally makes sense. Well, now you can do that.. so no need to copy-paste links anymore.
Furthermore there were a number of folks who found out some problems with E90. These problems should be history now, as e.g. the enter-key can be used for sending messages and the friend list should render ok now.
So go on, try it out!
In terms of big feature enhancements.. you’ll have to wait for a while before we get them to you, but in terms of supported devices expansion we should be closer to providing more for you. Just for our information: would you appreciate support for S60 3rd Edition devices?
Quick poll:
Do you find landmark presence easy enough to use? Or, do you think it is buried too deep in the application and should be put somewhere else?
How about offline messaging (have you noticed that you can do that, send a friend who is offline) - what do you think of it? What’s the one feature you’d put in? What’s the one thing you could live without?
Thanks!
BR, Kristian
I’ve tried the landmark presence facility but only have a 6120 so have to use an external gps module, making the location-based stuff less useful to me. It doesn’t seem to be able to make use of cell-tower info if there is no gps but this would be a good feature to add - a ’snap to known location within n meters of where the cell towers think you are’ capability for those with nokia maps (and so a list of locations) but an external gps module. I’d also love a ‘live’ ability to tell certain friends exactly where you are - although maybe that’s more of a nokia maps thing
My biggest single request is to allow ‘advanced’ logging-in to alternate jabber servers. I run my own server and have lots of friends who know me by my current jabber id. I’d find it a serious pain having to keep 2 ids or use a gateway. I see no reason why you can’t log into an alternate server but still have other facilities you have planned for OVI work as normal.
Comment by Robert Goldsmith — August 8, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Offline messages: I’ve tried it and think it’s important.
“the one feature”: alternate Jabber/XMPP-Server login
live without: I want it all
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chinese N95 can’t install,why?vesion 21.0.016 rm159
Comment by GG — August 8, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
chinese hongkong N95,has wifi and gps
Comment by GG — August 8, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Quote from blog text:
“Just for our information: would you appreciate support for S60 3rd Edition devices?”
Isn’t it already supported for 3rd Edition devices? I thought the N95 was 3rd Edition…
, Espen
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I have problems when exiting the phoneboook instead… with previous and this version, too. This happens if I leave the tab (Phonebook/COnversations/Nokia Chat/etc) selected and try to exit: my E71 crashes and reboots.
Comment by charliebrown — August 9, 2008 @ 11:39 am
Support for S60 3rd edition devices would be much appreciated. Thanks for the good work.
Comment by Barney — August 9, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
@Espen: No, the current version supports 3rd Ed FP 1 products (it’s a newer platform, N95 is a product that runs this platform too (3rd Ed FP 1, that is)).
@charliebrown: Oh, we haven’t seen this - we’ll give it a try. Have you tried to update the phone software - does the problem persist?
@GG: We’ll try to get the exact software, to test it. Can you define the exact message that you get when trying to install?
Thanks all!
BR, Kristian
Comment by Kristian — August 9, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
Two features requests:
1) Being able to send location to non Nokia Chat users. What about a link to an online map?
2) Logging.
Comment by Jonas — August 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Any word on 3rd. Ed, FP2 support?
Comment by Jukka Eklund — August 9, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
Yeah, support for the N78 would be nice; bring on S60 3rd ed.
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@Kristian: no software update available for E71 yet…
Comment by charliebrown — August 9, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
Support for S60 3rd edition devices would be very much appreciated! (E65, e.g.)
Comment by Stefan — August 9, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
Now, if only the Chat would support (even partially) the major IM protocols out of the box… MSN, Yahoo.. Then I might just imagine myself using it every now or then, but currently it’s totally useless.
Comment by ssaii — August 10, 2008 @ 12:31 am
I can’t launch Nokia Chat on my E71-2. I get “System Error(-1)”
Comment by Anand Dharmaraj — August 10, 2008 @ 8:01 am
@Anand Dharmaraj: Be sure that you install *both* the support package and the Chat sis file. Sounds by the error, that the support package isn’t installed.
@Nick & Jukka: We’ll do our best in bringing out the S60 3rd Ed FP 2 compliant product out too - but it will take still some time.
Comment by Kristian — August 10, 2008 @ 9:52 am
It would be very useful to be able to have the presence location updated periodically with the current GPS location and then have the ability to open a contact’s published presence location directly in Nokia Maps.
The current feature is ok, but unless the landmarks are known by the other user, they aren’t a great deal of use.
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Well its a nice app.
How about givinga feature to save the chat history.
Also the connectimng ime is to much
it takes forever to login. (arnd 10 15 secs)
I use E51 and airtel mobile office in mumbai.
Also it eats up a lot of memory and slows down the contacts application.
so thats a basic problem.
If its taht slow and eats up memory better to separate it from the contacts application rather than slow up the basic application.
better copy paste functionality is welcome.
all in all its a great app witha afew glitches
Comment by Sukumar — August 11, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
also blinking the notification light on a new message.
ability to change the notifications
stop vibration and sounds.
Comment by Sukumar — August 11, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
I like this Nokia fans
Comment by Nokia fans — August 12, 2008 @ 8:12 am
I really like the chat tool, but until it supports more of the common IM protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, Etc, then I think I will be staying with SlickIM.
Comment by Chris B — August 12, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Cool application but we need MSN supports…
Comment by Leandro — August 12, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
You know what ? I think I’ll definitely stick to using Twibble… I find it terrible that a company such a Nokia thinks that we are living in a Nokia-World only. Why the hell should a friend who has no Nokia smartphone open an account on Nokia’s chat service ?
C’mon guys, time to do such things is over… There is already too much messaging and tweet-like systems today.
I would have find it much more clever to have a Twitter or Jaiku client that integrates with Nokia Maps or Google Maps on my N95.
Comment by Fred — August 12, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Cool application but we need MSN supports!!!!!
Comment by remco — August 13, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Whithout MSN Live messenger it is pretty useless for me. All my contacts use Live messenger and don’t want to go over the trouble of installing another protocol.
Comment by Peter — August 13, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
Not sure if this is a common problem, but since updating to the latest version 2 build 5 I find that it stopped some other apps from auto-starting F-Secure and Google Search. Reinstalling these seemed to fix the problem.
Also I can not make it auto-start / login either on my n95-8GB or my wife’s 6110 navigator. I am always finding either mine or my wife’s accounts are not connected. Sort of ruins the always available communication feature.
I note that I can call a chat user by selecting Call from options, I would like to be able to send an SMS or other form of message this way as well. Especially if the chat program won’t auto-reconnect.
Some suggestions:
* send a photo, or other type of file, like the Voice message feature works
* keep the old chat messages between reboots
* a way to chat to more than one friend at a time
Also I agree with others about not making this a “Walled Garden” available to Nokia only chat users. I note that a recent Beta Labs Blog post showed how Nokia chat can be accessed via another chat client, so it is obviously based on standard chat protocols. Don’t lock it down Nokia or it might die on the vine…
Comment by Paul Greeve — August 14, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
Any news on the “network error”? Keep getting this on a N95 8Gb
Comment by Nigel Jones — August 17, 2008 @ 6:21 am
1.the font is so tiny in E71
2.sometimes reset E71 when run Chat
3.Popup for chat would be great
Comment by newaa — August 19, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Before I start complaining I’d like to say that this chat client is brilliant and I can’t wait for some of the bumps to be ironed out. If only the Nokia Mail client used the same network connection management
Nokia chat is based on XMPP/Jabber and they also seem to have configured some of the transports on the ovi.com servers to allow you to add additional users to you friends list / roster from other IM services such as MSN ….
Have any of the people complaining about MSN support actually tried adding a MSN contact as a buddy?
I haven’t myself but have successfully added a number of contacts from other jabber servers and it works fine (yes I’m aware its a different protocol).
HOWEVER forcing users to use one server/service is very limiting. I have a jabber gateway with all my MSN, AIM, ICQ …. friends on and maintaining a second list of contacts just isn’t feasible.
I’m eagerly awaiting the instructions on how to specify a different jabber server (in Nokia Chat) so that I don’t have to run one account for my phone and another for everything else and no I don’t think migrating everything over to ovi.com is an option as I quite like my domains and aliases as they are thank you
I suppose another option would be to add a service to import your existing rosters via s2s ie import your contact lists from multiple services ie MSN, jabber, ICQ etc. I could live with that (assuming my alias stayed the same for each service) but there may be some people that don’t want their chats logged on a third party server.
Apologies for the rambling just getting a little frustrated finding such a well integrated client and not being able to use it with my existing accounts.
Again well done.
Comment by Kurt Goodliff — August 28, 2008 @ 6:11 am
I would like to see options for adjusting font size / whole buddy list. I would like to bring it more inline with the size of the contacts on the s60 Client. I’m not blind and like to see as much information on the screen as possible, but of course make it a toggle for people who might need it biggie-sized.
Comment by scynn — August 30, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
Very nice indeed, but as mentioned above.. I too run my own Jabber server with transports to the other major IM networks. I would love to be able to change default jabber server. If that could be fixed Id retire the other not-so-well integrated IM apps I currently utilize on my N82.
Pretty please add this, if nothing else as an “advance” option, I try to narrow down the number of accounts I have, not broaden.
Comment by Kjetil — September 15, 2008 @ 5:51 am
How about group messaging? That’s a feature I’ve been missing - to be able to chat with several people in one space/room at the same time, so everybody sees messages from anyone …
Comment by onlife — September 22, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
As someone mentioned previously i would like a file send/photo send like the sound record function works…
How about chat software update checking within the app? Or an anouncement message sent to users when they log on?
Comment by NeuTek — October 3, 2008 @ 5:40 pm