Launched! Ovi Contacts updated and polished

Your phonebook - with enriched experience

Ovi Contacts is a place where you can find your friends, see where they are and what they are up to. It’s all about keeping close to people who matter.

If you have used already Nokia Chat you will find Ovi Contacts mobile application familiar. Key features: (note: supported features depend on the platform)

• Chat: Send instant messages and enrich them with smileys, voice and location messages.
• Presence: At a glance you can see if your friends are available, busy or on the phone.
• Enhanced presence: You can let your friends know what you are listening and broadcast your important scenes.

We will continue developing Ovi Contacts and will bring more features for you to enjoy. Stay tuned!

Compatibility and system requirements

Versions available for S60 3rd Edition (all Feature Packs), Series 40, and Maemo. Tested with Nokia N73, Nokia E65, Nokia E61i, Nokia E62, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia N80, Nokia N77, Nokia N75, Nokia 6290, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N76, Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6120 classic, Nokia E90, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia E51, Nokia N82, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6124 classic, Nokia E71, Nokia E66, Nokia E63, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 5320, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N96, Nokia N85, Nokia N79, Nokia 6650, Nokia 7500 Prism, Nokia 3120 classic, Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia 5300 XpressMusic, Nokia 6600 Fold, Nokia 8600 Luna, Nokia 3500 classic, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, Nokia N810 WiMax Edition.

Make a difference - give feedback

Please share your thoughts in the Ovi Contacts discussion forum, or send feedback to Nokia privately using the feedback form. Also, after you have had time to play around with it, please take the survey!

Configuring Psi

To download Psi, go to: http://psi-im.org. To configure Psi to run on Ovi Contacts chat feature, do the following:

1. Open Psi.
2. Click the Psi symbol, and select Account Setup.
3. In the Jabber Accounts window, click Add.
4. In the Name field, enter a name for your account, for example, Ovi Contacts Chat feature.
5. Check that Register new account is not selected.
6. Click Add.
7. In the Jabber ID field, enter your Nokia account user name. (see picture)
8. Click the Connection tab.
9. Select all checkboxes, except ‘Probe legacy SSL port’.
10. In the Host field, enter chat.ovi.com.
11. In the Port field, enter 5223.
12. In the Encrypt connection drop-down menu, select Legacy SSL. (see picture)
13. Click Save.

Configuring Adium:
To download Adium, go to: http://www.adiumx.com. To configure Adium to run on Ovi Contacts chat feature, do the following:

1. Open Adium.
2. From the Adium menu, select Preferences.
3. Select Account preferences pane (should be the left-most tab).
4. Click the plus (+) button at the bottom left corner for adding a new account (select Jabber from the drop-down list).
5. In the username field, fill in your Nokia account. (see picture)
6. Open the Options tab, and configure the following details:

• Connect server: chat.ovi.com
• Port: 5223
• Force old-style SSL: select the box
• Require SSL/TLS: select the box (see picture)

7. Click OK.

Configuring Pidgin:

To download Pidgin, go to:http://www.pidgin.im. To configure Pidgin to run on Ovi Contacts chat feature, do the following:

1. Start Pidgin.
2. Select Add/Edit from Accounts menu.
3. Click Add from the Accounts dialog.
4. Fill the Add account window with following details: (see picture)

• Protocol: XMPP
• Username: your Nokia account (without @ovi.com)
• Domain: ovi.com
• Password: you may enter your password if you want to sign in automatically, but it is recommended that you leave it empty for security reasons
• Remember password: select the box if you want Pidgin to remember your password (you are not prompted to enter it each time you sign in, if you select this option)

5. Click Advanced tab, and configure the following details: (see picture)

• Require SSL/TLS: select the box
• Force old (port 5223) SSL: select the box
• Connect port: 5223
• Connect server: chat.ovi.com

6. Click Save.

Select the version:

NOTE! If you have used Nokia Chat you must remove all Nokia Chat files from your device before installing Ovi Contacts client.

Download via mobile
Download and install Ovi Contacts directly to your mobile by typing http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/app into your mobile browser.

Install the support file first, followed by the mobile client, using the Application Installer in Nokia PC Suite, and then restart your device.

To start using Ovi Contacts, you need a Nokia Account. Open the application and sign in, or follow the steps to create an account.

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Ovi Contacts for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2

Tested with Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 5320, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N96, Nokia N85, Nokia N79, Nokia 6650.

NOTE! If you have used Nokia Chat you must remove all Nokia Chat files from your device before installing Ovi Contacts client.

Download via mobile
Download and install Ovi Contacts directly to your mobile by typing http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/app into your mobile browser.

Download via PC
1. Download support file (required!) (SIS, 1040 KB)
2. Download Ovi Contacts mobile client (SIS, 479 KB)

Install the support file first, followed by the mobile client, using the Application Installer in Nokia PC Suite, and then restart your device.

To start using Ovi Contacts, you need a Nokia Account. Open the application and sign in, or follow the steps to create an account.

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Ovi Contacts for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1

Tested with Nokia 6290, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N76, Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6120 classic, Nokia E90, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia E51, Nokia N82, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6124 classic, Nokia E71, Nokia E66, Nokia E63.

Download via PC

1. Download support file (required!) (SIS, 826 KB)
2. Download Ovi Contacts mobile client (SIS, 404 KB)

Install the support file first, followed by the mobile client, using the Application Installer in Nokia PC Suite, and then restart your device.

To start using Ovi Contacts, you need a Nokia Account. Open the application and sign in, or follow the steps to create an account.

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Ovi Contacts for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2

Tested with Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 5320, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N96, Nokia N85, Nokia N79, Nokia 6650.

Download via PC

1. Download support file (required!) (SIS, 1040 KB)
2. Download Ovi Contacts mobile client (SIS, 479 KB)

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Ovi Contacts for S60 3rd Edition (initial release)

Tested with Nokia N73, Nokia E65, Nokia E61i, Nokia E62, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia N80, Nokia N77, Nokia N75. Does not work on other devices.

Download via PC

1. Download support file (required!) (SIS, 826 KB)
2. Download Ovi Contacts mobile client (SIS, 404 KB)

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Ovi Contacts for Series 40

Tested with Nokia 7500 Prism, Nokia 3120 classic, Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia 5300 XpressMusic, Nokia 6600 Fold, Nokia 8600 Luna, Nokia 3500 classic, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic.

Download via mobile
Download and install Ovi Contacts directly to your mobile by typing http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/app into your mobile browser.

Details

Released:
23 Jan 2009

Updated:
26 Feb 2009

State:
Current

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Hands On With Dance Fabulous

Pocket Gamer’s Jon Jordan has got his hands on Dance Fabulous at the recent Mobile World Congress convention, and returns with a report. He describes the basic gameplay modes, as well as the exciting ability to import your own music to use as your preferred tunes.

The game, being developed by Digital Legends (creators of ONE) and published by Nokia, is expected out in Summer 2009 according to the report.

Here’s a an excerpt from his preview:

“The basic gameplay sees you controlling a cute manga-style 3D avatar who moves around a dancefloor as you hit the phone’s main four-way button…. There’s also a Guitar Hero-style Challenge mode, where you have to hit the button at the right time in the right direction as arrows fall down the screen.”

Click it here for the rest, and then tell us what you think. Are you looking forward to this new N-Gage game?

MONOPOLY Here & Now On The Way

Nokia and EA will make the game available for one month only at a special launch price.

In just one week, one of the world's best selling board games in history goes mobile on N-Gage - MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition.

To celebrate its release, Nokia and EA will make the game available for one month only at a launch price of up to 30% off*. With these savings, you may be able to build an even bigger high rise hotel in one of the most glamourous new international locations available.

So, get out your phone, go to http://www.n-gage.com to download the N-Gage application and get ready to pass Go!

* Based on standard retail price of full license in price category of RM30.00 other local currency. Total discount may vary by geographical region.

Wah! If they give 30% off, the price will be RM21.00!! So, get ready and let some extra credit at your credit card!

Symbian Web Browser : Skyfire!

What Is Skyfire?

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile browser that gives you a web browsing experience exactly like PC browsing. For the first time ever, on your phone, you can watch any video, connect with friends, listen to music, shop, and browse the web using the full-featured PC versions of your favorite websites. With Skyfire, mobile browsing just works -- speedy page loads, full video, images and audio.

The best mobile browsing experience

Watch any video
YouTube, Hulu, any web video - you name it - it's playing on Skyfire. Skyfire is the only mobile browser that supports full Flash and Windows Media videos, including Flash 10 and Silverlight 2.0.

Stay connected

Follow your friends' Facebook and Twitter updates plus keep track of news, sports, video and other content in your own customizable activity feed.

Share instantly

Easily share what you find on the web or what you are up to. Post web pages and status updates to Facebook and Twitter, with one click!

Browse any page

Browse your favorite websites on Skyfire exactly as you would on your PC. No compromises!

Blazing fast speed

Web pages load quickly - even those loaded with videos, images and graphics. Don't take our word for it, check out a great demo by Laptop Magazine

See in Action!

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Join S60 Campaign and be S60 Ambassador!

Campaigns

S60 Ambassador campaigns focus your conversations on a particular benefit of S60 or a particular device or service that is based on S60. The campaigns will be organized to make it easy for you to talk to people about S60 by highlighting cool new features or devices.

For each campaign, we'll give you a few pointers - and then you can take the conversations from there. Campaigns will typically run for 8-12 weeks. The most active and engaged ambassadors in each campaign will earn campaign-specific rewards.

Campaigns available for you:

Always S60 Campaign

The general S60 campaign is where S60 Ambassadors cut their teeth. Any topic related to S60 is fair game, though we are partial to the following:

1) S60 is Open to New Features. You can show your friends your favorite 3^rd party application. Your pick: Mobitubia, emTube, Sportstracker, whatever. You can show them how to download and install an application from S60.com. You can tell them about all of the applications that are available and where to find them.

2) S60 has a full HTML browser. You can show them how their favorite website is available to them wherever and whenever. You can explain how to get the toolbar to pop up. You can show how the page overview works. Whatever you like about the browser, tell someone you know!

3) S60 supports multitasking. Show someone how to press and hold the menu key to see which apps are currently running. Show someone how you can send an SMS while the browser is open, or play “Snake” while downloading an RSS feed.

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Limited Participation
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N-Gage: Level 2

Inviting all Ambassadors to more, addictive, mobile gaming! Yes, we are back with yet another installment of N-Gage gaming action. We are calling this one N-Gage: Level 2.

If you like talking about N-Gage games, or if you just like talking in general and want to play while you are at it - here's your chance. Get a free N-Gage game of your choice, play it, and if you like it - start spreading the word about N-Gage to your friends, neighbours, co-workers, cats, squirrels and other folks in your life.

Sign-up & Mike will email you an activation-code as soon as it is sunshine in California!

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Limited Participation

Nokia Messaging - India and SEAP only

What is Nokia Messaging?

It’s a fast and easy way to access your personal email. Nokia Messaging has a quick setup and is easy to use. You can even set up Nokia Messaging directly on some devices. All you need to do is supply your email address and password. Nokia Messaging takes care of setting up the appropriate configurations and begins pushing email directly to your device.

Top 10 Reasons to love Nokia Messaging

• Easy to find email on your device – you can’t miss it!
• Easy setup – enter email & password – you can’t go wrong!
• Bundled with data plans – no bill shock! (soon available via select operators)
• Exciting and intuitive email experience
• Emails delivered to the phone automatically
• Delete emails on your device, it deletes on your PC
• Smart forwarding – no need to download first
• Link up to 6 personal email accounts
• Tried and tested with thousands of beta users
• Supports a wide range of email addresses

Easily discoverable
o You can easily find email on your mobile device right on the home screen!

Easy to set up and use
o Self-guided email setup.
o All you need to do is supply your email address and password.

Affordable with predictive costs
o Nokia Messaging is provided through your selected operator.

Wide range of support
o A wide range of device models covers the broadest set of consumer needs.
o Support for the widest range of personal email addresses across the globe

Nokia Messaging is currently being offered free of charge as a Nokia Beta Trial service. Operator data charges are NOT included. It is compatible with Nokia E51, E61, E61i , E65, E66, E71, E90, N73, N78, N82, N95, and N95 8GB devices.

Nokia Messaging is available at email.nokia.com

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Nokia Ovi.com

I just use Ovi.com for past few weeks. Before this, I don't know what's about Ovi. It is usefull website for our Nokia phone. So, let me introduce you all about Ovi.

If anyone of you purchase new phone within August 2008 until now, in you Nokia box, you will get Ovi DVD Rom included. Before Ovi launched, all the Nokia box in-box have Nokia PC Suite DVD Rom.

Now, let get started!

One of the new features, that has everyone excited is Ovi.com’s new Sync feature. Previously known as My Nokia Backup. This allows you to sync your device with Ovi.com and hence ’store’ and access your contacts and calender entries online. If you ever lose your device, or format it etc etc, all your data will be backed up on Ovi so you can restore all your information directly from the site.

What this effectively means is that you can restore your backup anywhere ! No need of a computer nearby or wires or anything. All you need is your symbian device that supports Ovi sync, and a dataplan such as GPRS or WiFi etc.

Adding your device :

When you first log into Ovi.com , it will probably display a huge banner that says ” Add your device” right smack in the middle of the page . You’ll have to click that to get started.

This will take you to the “Add a device” wizard.

First you’ll have to select the model of the phone you intend to sync with Ovi. Choose it from the list that is presented to you and click “Next”.

In the next step, it’ll ask you to enter your phone number and information :

Enter it all in and click Next.

In step 3, it will display all your info. Click next as confirmation.

And you’re done ! An sms will be sent to your phone. It usually takes about 5 minutes but the service has been known to take an hour or two on some occasions. The last step will give you a PIN code to enter into your device. Note this down, because it is important for when you receive your configuration text message. In this case its 2121 but yours might be different.

Now once you receive the text message, scroll to it in your device inbox :

Once you select and open it, it will ask you to enter a PIN Code :

This is where you enter the PIN Code from the website that you noted down earlier. Once you enter it in, the Message will be displayed :

Just like it says, go to Options and select “Save“, to automatically save the Ovi.com settings in your device’s Sync application.

And thats basically all there is to it.

Syncing your device :

Now that you’ve said Ovi.com’s info in your device’s Sync application and added your device to Ovi.com , you can now Sync it with Ovi , so you can mess around with your contacts, calender, notes or you
r to-do list all online. This can also serve as a backup of your contacts and info, incase you want to restore all of it onto another phone.

To sync your device, on your phone scroll to your Sync application. In my N95 it was under Tools :

Open the Sync application, and you’ll be presented with a list of services that your sync application currently supports, and the last time you synced with them :

Select or highlight Ovi.com and select Options–> Synchronise :

Your device will then begin to try to Synchronise with the service. A popup will appear, asking you to select a dataplan. Wifi, GPRS , whatever works for you. The amount of time the process takes, depends on the speed of your dataplan. For me it took about a minute, using WiFi.

The application will tell you what its doing, the whole time, until it finishes the Sync process :

If you wish to check more information about the sync process, simply highlight Ovi.com and select Options –> View Log :

Thats about it from your phone.

Now, go to www.ovi.com to check your information that you Sync from your phone. Login to your account and see whether it's update or not. If you been there whole time since you start this operation, you might be not seing some update. Logout and re-login again or refresh your browser. Be patient as www.ovi.com server having heavy load of too many user. If your internet connection slow, you will get slower view.

You’ll see that the site’s calender / events in your profile has been updated with the info from your device, and your to-do-list, notes and contacts are all displayed there.

Your Contacts :

Here all your contacts are displayed. You can create and manage them or mess around with contact groups.
(Note : One weird bug I noticed is that because of Ovi’s syncing in the contacts application, noone can have a birthday prior to 1980. Which is a little …uhh…weird. I hope they fix that soon.)

The Calendar :

Here is where all the c
alender entries from your device are displayed. As I said earlier, for some strange reason, all my calender entries were not matched up with the correct date like in my device. I’ve set “Leave on travel to Jaipur” to tomorrow,the 30t but on the Ovi.com site it’s displayed under yesterday the 28th.

Its probably just a bug on the site, that I hope gets fixed soon.

The Notes and To-do list :

Here you can view and edit your notes or your to-do list. Pretty basic.

Managing your device :

If at any time you wish to manage or delete your device or phone number, just click on “Manage your device” on the extreme right side of the Ovi.com site :

Here you can also view the time/date of your last sync, restore your online Ovi.com backup onto your phone and other actions.

Note: Some information and picture collected from ZOMG its Cj