Nokia = shit. Anyone who hadn't realised that already deserves to get burned.

Failed yesterday, latest available backup was the 23rd Jan?!?

An "every 3-4 weeks, or failing that whenever we're in the mood" backup schedule doesn't exactly reassure.

Ovi has some real potential to be useful with the software tools installed on the latest Nokias in the pipleline. These will make Ovi integration a lot easier, and could easily double the user base. To four people.

Avoid anything that comes out of Nokia Beta Labs, including ANYTHING to do with Ovi. They've drunk the Web 2.0 Kool Aid - and they can't write code to save their lives.

What a bunch of f*ckwit amateurs.

It's a shame English readers cannot know that 'Ovi' means 'door'. There's a great potential for puns here.

Man, that's a classic El Reg sub-heading. I hurt myself laughing on that one. hahaha.

With Synkia you can back up contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, notes and SMS by a click of a button. You will always have a fresh copy of the information available on the server. If your phone is lost, stolen or breaks down you can easily restore the information on the new phone.

If you have several phones you can use the service to synchronize information between them – all phones will have the same contacts, appointments, etc.

In addition you can log in at www.synkia.com to view, add and modify your data. The next time you synchronize the changes will be transferred to your phone.

With Synkia you can back up contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, notes and SMS by a click of a button. You will always have a fresh copy of the information available on the server. If your phone is lost, stolen or breaks down you can easily restore the information on the new phone.

If you have several phones you can use the service to synchronize information between them – all phones will have the same contacts, appointments, etc.

In addition you can log in at www.synkia.com to view, add and modify your data. The next time you synchronize the changes will be transferred to your phone.

Yeah please please let me pay for sync. I would love you forever Nokia. I don't pay enough for basic features. Really you guys should just strip everything off the phone and then charge per use for the address book by keeping it all in the cloud.

Back up the cloud? Are you insane?

But, more seriously, isn't the point that a distributed architecture impicitly backs-up data to the four corners of the timec^W earth? You don't see people scrambling to restore backups if parts of a p2p network goes down...

<<We’re sorry that the profile pictures you love, and we love too are gone.>>

We love too? Phorm, pay attention!

Good to see they took it on the chin and 'fessed up.

(Ovi is Finnish for door, as has been pointed out. But "Oven" is genetive/objective for door, so even more puns expected. Probably only in Finnish, tho').

I had no problem whatsoever with Ovi I use it every day, and it just worked. Must be the other guy who had problems with it then.

I don't think they're planning to have you pay for synchronising your data anytime soon.

@fail.

Most of their software is actually very good and their new e-mail client is splendid.

...it is only a sync so you only lose something if you lost your phone before they fixed it.

I use OVI, as well as backing up to PC, because it is free and pretty easy to get your phone content onto the site where you can edit it. SportsTracker, Maps, Wellness Diary and other free stuff including the client for Exchange are all pretty damn good for free. I miss using MailforExchange now that our IT dept has upgraded Exchange and the guy who set mine up defected to an iPhone.

Oh well, it must be the other guy who is having problems with OVI, making three users.

It is a shame that Finnish companies cannot know that 'Oy' is a threatening interjection in English. (e.g. 'Nokia! Oy! NO!')