Cool, I'm installing it now.
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This is a nice decision. My computer was too messed up with multiple Nokia applications. I'm downloading it right now.
Will we be able to update it through the application or do we have to download it from Beta Labs manually each time an update is released?

Nice but I would like a Mac version, when?
/ove

Few months back I had filled survey about OVI Suite and I am happy to see OVI suite 2.0 going in right direction according to feedback given. I am going ahead to try it.
Do we need to uninstall other apps? Nokia PC Suite, Software Updater or Map loader?

Suyog

Great work on the Suite, a definite improvement over PC Suite in speed and usability.The refreshing new UI looks really pretty, I love it. Sync via USB or BT connection is seamless. Everything I need to use with my Nokia phone in a tidy package.

Couple of things I'd like to point out. It doesn't seem to sync contact groups already created on the phone. Also there's no built-in calendar except for dependence on Outlook for calendar function.

Overall it still blows away the flaky old PC Suite, everyone should use Ovi Suite NOW.

I hope a version for Mac is already in the work...

Nice to see Nokia use their own framework. :)

Please release Ovi Suite to any and all other operating systems. I use both Ubuntu and OpenSolaris on a daily basis and both would have great use for this application.

Hello!

First I must thank you guys for this great union of Nokia application. It simplifies a lot and looks great! I wish for the music application to evolve more and get support for Nokia Music Store (I cannot find it anyways).

A problem that has occured is that I cannot download DRM-data for my music-tracks I have downloaded through Nokia Music with Comes With Music. First I get a promt which ask me to download DRM-certs: Yes/No. I press Yes and then the login screen for Nokia Music comes. I enter my credentials and I get a message that a technical error has occured.

It's great idea to combine most useful features from Nokia applications to one Ovi Suite.

Hi all! This is Samuli Ylinen from Nokia Ovi Suite team.

First: thanks for everybody, who have downloaded the first Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta, really great to see this interest happening. Keep downloading software, spread the word to your friends interested about Nokia Betas, keep reporting your errors and ideas - it's really useful for us.

Then, couple of comments about Mac and Linux support. As you know, we've implemented Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 with Qt, but that's for the UI of of Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 - most of our connectivity is based on technology from Nokia PC Suite and unfortunately, this connectivity technology doesn't yet have multiplatform support.

Then answers:
Mac: We are working for Mac version of Nokia Ovi Suite - so that's coming at some time in future.
Linux: As we use Qt in Nokia Ovi Suite UI, we have the basic tecnology enablers for Linux version available, but building Nokia Ovi Suite for Linux is not in the scope currently. Of course, we are constantly following how the desktop operating system market evolves.

Could you write your comments about Linux support under following discussion topic:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/3210

And comments about Mac support under this topic:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/3219

We will be looking into these and are very interested to hear your comments about these and wishes. I would like to hear following comments:
- which features in Nokia Ovi Suite would be most important for you in Mac / Linux?
- which Linux distributions would be most useful?

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Samuli

So to have Linux supporte properly, it is better to move on, and choose an Android based phone?

Nice. Finally Nokia is thinking on usability issues. Having multiple ui apps on computer is painfull. Will definetly try it out.

Going back to a desktop app means you will have to create Windows/Mac/Linux version for every software. Or perhaps make the decision of leaving us Linux (or Mac) users out in the cold.

Why not just concentrate on making sure that the pre-installed applications on the phone can upload/sync with ovi.com and several other sharing websites (flickr, picasa, facebook, yada yada). I find it strange that Nokia calls its phones 'mobile computers' but then imposes a restriction of requiring a PC to do anything useful with them.

[Edit]
With the exception of Software updater that might require some dedicated desktop application, everything else can be done over the phone. Free us from having to depend on Ovi desktop software! :)

/Amit

Hi There, things are looking good. But I'll still be using the old pc suite. The main reason is that it can sync my calendar with Notes 8.5.
The other reason is that de contactgroups on my Nokia 5800 are correctly displayed in pc suite. In Ovi suite the groups are empty.
Hopefully will these changes come in a new version.

grtz,
Herman

do the math

Got that message when launching the installer. "Unable to proceed with the Installer execution".

I have XPsp3 with lots of earlier Nokia PCSuite and nSeries apps, so I doubt it's the computer. The installer failed immediately so I doubt it had time to find a conflict.

I re-downloaded OviSuite to make sure the original wasn't corrupt, but that didn't fix the problem.

Thoughts?

so you guys had PC suite.. and than you made a lot of changes to PC suite. and every time you did so, you used to make users download the entire thing all over again.. why couldn't you just get users to download the patches..

so now you have ovi suite.. you will make lots of changes.. and than you will get users to download the entire stuff again every time you update.. and the updates will be in sizes upwards of 80MB..

i think you guys lack a coherent software strategy...

So far so good. Here is my feedback.
1.) Some features that I like to see compare to Nokia Communication Centre is the Pop-up window for incoming calls when phone is connected to PC with the ability to reject a call with an SMS.
2.) The SMS Pop-up window working but you need to sync manually to view it on PC.
3.) Messages stored on the phone (Nokia E90) not sync to PC. This also not working on PC Suite.
4.) What about Battery level indicator and memory bar.
5.) Need to add calendar similar to the Nokia Communication Centre.
6.) Maybe have an option to choose what applications you would like to see on the Home Page.
7.) When synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook you need to add the option to specify the folders to sync with in order to have different phone books on Outlook for your different phones. Definitely need to add this functionality if OVI is going to replace PC Suite.

Is is not enough that a user is going to http://betalabs.nokia.com to KNOW that he/she is downloading a software product & service offered by Nokia?! Is it not enough that in WinXP, Start> All Programs menu there is a Nokia Folder with Nokia Ovi Suite icon listed to launch (yet again) a Nokia software product? All of these actions are deliberate and explicit intent by the end user to USE a Nokia software product, so why the need for a LONG, and LARGE splash screen to indicate such a product is launching?!

There are only 2 products I've come across that either A) allow the user to quickly get rid of the slow loading splash screen, or B) do not have a splash screen at all (save for restarting a failed instance)
for a) its IBM Lotus Notes; I click on the splash screen and its gone I await while working or typing for the app to load in the background. B) Mozilla Firefox 3.1/3.5.

In any case allow the user to quickly "hide" or disable the splash screen or minimize its "Always on Top" nature of loading" or effectively disable it allows for more cpu resources, not to mention DDR-SDRAM to load the product not wasting time for brand recognition.

Please Nokia ... I know I'm using your products - but its my computer allow me full control of my workspace when using your products, please.

Thank you.

Found the problem... I save downloads to a network share/mapped drive, and install from there. This installer doesn't like that, and must be loaded from the local machine only.

Heips,

why is Ovi Suite 2.0 a program for a PC when Nokia says it becomes an internet company?
I would find it more logical and practical for the enduser if the Ovi suite would be in the web. I then could use it from my Linux nettops, from the Mac, from everywhere.

I would really suggest an online version of Ovi suite with installations done to the mobile devices over the air and same for synchronization, etc.
Go online with some PC, get the Nokia device online, get them linked and here we go...

Then we get rid of this Microsoft centered things. Its really crazy that I need Microsoft products to update my Nokia devices running on symbian (and thats the only reason why I still have a MS installation on part of my harddisk).

Nokia has adopted Linux for it's high end platform (N900 and future Meamo devices), so it's a real shame to see lack of Linux support in Ovi Suite 2.0.

As far as I'm aware, phonet driver has been in Linux kernel for a while, so there's nothing stopping you from developing Linux connectivity components (and frankly it must be already done - otherwise N900 wouldn't be able to connect to Windows client right?).

So personally I think it's more political than technological problem here (maybe Nokia has some kind of deal with Microsoft not to support other platforms?).

If you don't want to develop Linux/Mac clients, please open up Ovi Suite 2.0 API and community members develop all needed components for you (see projects like gnokii), so all you would have to do, is to recompile your lovely QT app (hey, no excuses here :)) to work on all platforms.

I really like Nokia's moves to open source - I think this could really ignite the developer user base and in turn the regular user base.

But to get anywhere we need a linux sync suite (or network-based one as mentioned above).

I think almost all linux people would all of a sudden be very strong Nokia supporters if we had sync support.

I think its coming along well. I've had issues with duplicated contacts when I create them and the device syncs automatically. In addition to this it software is creating copies of appointments every time calendar syncs. I've disabled calendar sync function because of this.

I would like to see a view [icon] for the calendar appointments similar to the view in Ovi as well as notes. Syncing option for Notes doesn't appear to be possible as in the case with PC Suite. Notes does not sync OTA and I've had to do this through PC Suite instead. Had to add the fact that backup takes a really long...had to revert back to the regular PC suite for that too.

Nokia, you must add LO support. Many, many folks still use it because they feel that there is nothing better. I wont be using Ovi until you support Lotus Organizer. One of my reasons for using a Nokia phone at all rather than a Blacky is because PC Suite supports LO.

For those of us have Windows 7 and no longer use outlook Express, but don't want to stump up AUD99 for Outlook: I would like to be able to sync to my phone properly rather than having to have Windows Live on my phone just to get access to my contacts.

I have a strong feeling too (as another user mentions above) that the reason why there isn't a Linux / Mac version is political. I believe Microsoft either bullies or coughs up enough $$$ to Nokia to stump development of a suite that runs on platform other than Windows.

Are we going to see Nokia straighten up any time soon or are they going to keep bending over for Microsoft? How is that companies have this much fear of Microsoft??? I really don't understand it at all!

In any case, I too would like to see either a Linux/Mac version of OVI Suite, a Web Based Application, or the release of the API that would allow the open source community to develop applications for Nokia smart phones.

'nough said!

Is good idea ho have all-in-one. But now, after N900 release it is time to have Linux version! We already have full-functioned linux phone, let's have tolls to communicate to this linux from linux desktop!

As so many others (see among other: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Nokia-Ovi-Suite/Top-10-reasons-no...) I have installed OVI only to go back to PC Suite. I can understand what Nokia wants to achieve but there is still a long way to go, and even though PC suite is outdated and does not work that well, OVI is still a far cry behind.

Hy,
I'm a new linux user (only some months). In the past, in Windows based systems, I often use Nokia Software for backups, message managing, contacts etc...
Now, under linux is no more possible. Of course there is some "alternative" solutions (e.g. Wine), but it's really a pity to LOOSE all the characteristics of this good software.

Frankly speaking, this matter (no linux version for OVI Suite) can be something pushing me towards other mobile phone producer...

Any chance of someone getting off their backsides and bringing out a mac version so we can back up our files and calendar before making upgrades to the pc version!!!!?????. If someone had told me this was going to be a problem then I would never have bought this N-97. COME ON GET YOUR FINGER OUT!!!!!!

I want to be able to add notes/memos, contacts, etc in the desktop mode. I didn't want to switch from a Palm device to Nokia because of the awesome desktop application. I was able to update on my laptop & sync to my Palm. Nokia doesn't have this capability & it is necessary in today's technology. My "smart phone" is a walking computer & I need all the information I store on it. I will be going back to Palm, soon. I like Nokia phones, but it lacks in the applications & desktop.

Please consider a Linux port. I haven't used windows in a long time and really don't want to just for one application.

Thanks in anticipation!!!

another user using ubuntu all the time with three different machines, nokia services excluded :-(

I love Nokia for their almost guaranteed superior performance as a phone. But the game has already changed. Its all about collaboration and inter-operability of systems / applications. Exactly where Nokia lacks big time.

My dilemma is how on earth I can connect my Snow Leopard (iMac) system to my Nokia, and have it set up through Ovi suite.

I've used Windows Mobile, iphone OS flavours - somehow I feel Nokia engineering / strategy teams needs to have a close look at themselves on how to change the scene. I hope there is some direction from Nokia' top level to accomplish this.

Hoping for the best.

I've got 5230 Express Music. It's great. Best phone I ever had. But I have 3 computers at home, none of them running Windows, all Linux.

So I'm waiting for Linux version.

No Windows here, only linux. Waiting for port...

Nokia should realise that as long as Windows is monopoly in PC, it can use that position in every area of IT. Also to control mobile markets.
Providing Windows only software and forcing customers to use Windows, Nokia just makes MS position even stronger. That means more money to MS to develop mobile Windows and also possible make it difficult for others (Nokia) to integrate to the monopoly OS. Especially in corporate networks.
So cross platform solutions, please.

I want Nokia OVI Suite for Linux.

I can only chime in...
After four years of Windows XP on my Laptop and about 15 to 20 Minutes boot up time, I eventually installed Ubuntu 10.10 and now I can actually USE this Laptop again and it boots up in about 1 Minute and shuts down in one minute.
It's way way faster and I could do with the Nokia OVI suite to connect my Nokia 2730 to it... the suite is not necessary to connect via mobile to the internet, that works out of the (Ubuntu) box and I'd say, if Nokia isn't doing anything rather soon, they will be left out and nobody will be interested in the (slightly bloatware) OVI suite...

A browser plugin that cyncs phone and ovi content online might be an alternative without OS restrictions...

My five cents...

Don't bother waiting for Nokia to support Linux, go buy a HTC and use google apps instead. Nokia have had plenty of opportunity to get this right.

Linux and Mac OS version, pls...

Waiting for linux OVI app...!

Why not an Ovi for Linux?! I wouldn't have to swith to Windows just to update my phone...

waiting for ubuntu version...:(

Hello,
You must make Ovi-Suite for Linux, at least give source code. Many of your devices are working on linux systems, so you shouldn't forget about non Windows users.
Best regards,
Max

heya. to revive this topic... having two n9 in the household, i would really appreciate some more effort from nokia for linux suport. chain elop in some basement for a few years or something...

@Richlv
See workaround here
http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-suite-3-2-beta/suggestion/42076/n9-...

this is very ossam

the ovi suite gives us nice results for surfing the internet