Quick note: Nokia PC Phone has been archived from Beta Labs, and it’s not available for download anymore.

I found the concept truly promising - and based on our survey, quite a many of you liked it too. At the end of the day, however, it was decided that we will not productize this as a standalone application. In any case, I consider the beta trial as a success case: we learned a lot, and now we can seek to incorporate the best parts to other Nokia offering. Thanks everyone for your input!!

The PC Phone team promised to post a proper wrap-up later…

Nokia PC Phone has been just updated to version 1.2.2204. This fourth public beta release contains loads of bug fixes and a couple of new features. Overall, the concept is getting more mature, and we decided to raise the technological maturity indicator to yellow = “some known issues”.

See full release notes here.

Download here.

The Nokia PC Phone team just created a survey for you:

Please participate in our survey and you have a really good chance to be in a big role when improving this service even better. This will only take about 10-15 minutes of your precious time.

Among all the participants we will draw five (5) gift cards to amazon.com web store (EUR 50 or USD 75 based on your country of residence)

Survey is valid from Feb 5th to Feb 18th 2008.

Download Nokia PC Phone

Enter Nokia PC Phone survey (please do)

Ps. do you like Amazon gift cards as an incentive? We are currently thinking what could be best incentives for you to give us feedback. Due to legal reasons, however, the monetary value needs to be nominal.

We just updated Nokia PC Phone, the (surprisingly?) most popular Beta Labs app of the month, to version 1.2. 2078. As you can see from the release notes, this third public release was mostly about bug fixes.

Download here

Watch Nokia PC Phone demo

Thanks to your feedback, Nokia PC Phone is getting increasingly mature. Go try it!!

Update: picture updated from “girl with a Mac” to “guy with a PC”. The earlier pic was indefensibly misleading, as PC Phone doesn’t support Mac. My fault. Sorry for confusion. - Tommi.

As Nokia PC Phone is currently the hottest (= most-downloaded) application under Beta Labs, I wanted to highlight this comment from the development team:

Thank you for all your input.

We have received quite a lot of personal feedback to our email address and we have tried to reply to all of you who have sent some comments, incident reports or proposals.

What we would like to hear from you is the following :

Now that you have experienced using your Nokia from your PC, and you understand what can be done with this kind of approach - what are the top 3 things in your Nokia that you want to get done from your PC?

Thanks for your encouraging feedback !

Best wishes to you all for 2008!

- The Nokia PC Phone Team -

You can share your thoughts either publicly by commenting to this blog, or privately through the feedback form.

Note: if you want to follow the debate, you can subscribe to all PC Phone related blog comments from http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/comments/feed?tag=pc-phone (learn to use RSS). The same URL structure works for all other applications too.

Quick note: Nokia PC Phone was just updated. (yes, already now. Did I mention that the team is very entrepreneurial?)

• many bugs fixed
• IE7 support added

Download here.

Also, as Nokia PC Phone team commented, they updated the FAQ page to answer your questions so far.

Thanks for all the contributions!!

Friends, let me introduce a really promising new beta concept called Nokia PC Phone:

Nokia PC Phone is an experimental service that gives you a possibility to use your mobile phone with your Web Browser. You can call, text and manage contacts from your phone.
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Nokia PC phone is a browser extension/plug-in and it works with Firefox 2.x. Internet Explorer 7.x will be supported soon.

Download here.

The team behind Nokia PC Phone is small but ultra-entrepreneurial one. I guess it’s not too extravagant to say that the fate of the whole concept will be largely determined by your feedback and the market adoption during the next few months.

So use your opportunity well.. How do you like this first version? What do you think we should do next, to make it mind-blowingly amazing?

Ps. please forgive us for all the typos and occasional bad grammar in web pages… We’ll fix those in due course.

Pps. we are using a less scalable download infrastructure this time. Please be patient (and do tell us) if you experience slow download speeds.