Cloud
When I first heard of "The Cloud" I thought "fluffy, intangible and liable to piss on you at a moment's notice". I stand by my initial assessment...
Nokia blows Ovi Files out of the sky
Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped. Not that users risk losing files - Ovi Files is a synchronisation system, so the data will be replicated on a desktop computer. Nokia suggests that users of Ovi Files might like to use Ovi …
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Nokia rethinking their badly thought out plans. SHOCKER!!
Ovi suite doesn't support my Nokia N900 phone, sorry I mean internet tablet. Not really an alternative then is it. A good alternative is the iphone, any android handset and indeed anything other than Nokia.
Icon because I am bitter.
N900...
With my N900 rsync over ssh is fine, but would be nice to have an official DropBox version for it and for my E72!
Ovi Suite
Last night I've tried to upload maps for Germany using Ovi Suite and get nowhere with the application. Failed miserably to read content from my 5800XM. I really miss the non-bloatware,non-issues of the old PC suite releases...
Reaction within Nokia
Reactions within Nokia have been mixed. Some want to see it killed because "it never worked properly" (which is probably true, given the state of our other Ovi services); some want to see it killed but an alternative offered, and others (probably the majority) think this is a Really Bad Idea, because we are dumping the users we have and giving them nothing instead.
It was justified by claiming it didn't fit into our overall strategy of providing "first-class mobile experiences" and a load of other business-type gobbledegook.
Anonymous for obvious reasons.
Data backup
"Hard disk crashes are sufficiently rare"..... hohoho
Definitely hit the old nail on the head there.
"When we got our email saying that Ovi Files was to be suspended our chief reaction was surprise. We'd apparently set up an account last year and completely forgotten about it. This probably applies to many Ovi Files users"
Me too.
I have both OVI files and Dropbox set up on my machines. I use Dropbox because it works and I've stopped using OVI because it doesn't.
Come on Nokia, you're still having some good ideas, but your execution is freaking terrible.
Ovi Suite!?!
Ya, the Ovi Suite worked great for the first 10 mins or so until it crashed and then proceeded to crash immediately on every attempt to restart it. Switched to the older PC Suite, following advice on their forums; that seems to work ok.
Perhaps their money would be better spent on hiring some competent software engineers.
Hunh.
Nokia's various services seems to be dropping away like dead flies, 'plink', one by one.
Just as well, I guess, if it gets them to do what they do best, manufacture better phone hardware.
Shane from Nokia
Hi, I work for Nokia. Yes, we have ramped down Ovi Files. But the long term strategic benefits will be better for consumers because we are focusing on creating better experiences in maps, music, apps, messaging, email, IM and social networks.
For example, Ovi Maps is a cornerstone of our strategy to provide contextual services to the more than 17 million people who already use it. It's a free, constantly updated navigation service that has the most global footprint of any of our competitors.
In addition, we currently host a digital music service that is #1 in 6 markets and an apps store that gets 1.7 million downloads daily. Nearly 14 million people in emerging markets have accessed the Internet for the first time using Ovi Mail and we will enable millions more our browser that is to come.
So we've got momentum in services...we're not going away...and I'd be delighted to talk with you more about it when you have a moment.
Shane McLaughlin
shane.1.mclaughlin(at)nokia.com
For Shane
I don't care if you work for Nokia or not. What I know is that the people at Nokia surely don't use their own software. I really like my 5800XM. A good piece of hardware but brutally sodomized by Ovi Suite, Ovi Store and no less by the Ovi Maps too. Why the later? Because the way it calculates the routes no matter you set the course for Faster, Short or Optimized. More than often you find yourself crossing a city with all the traffic, instead turning you to a faster route avoiding the center...Nokia should stop "listening and talking". Instead, they should READ the thousands of posts in their own forums claiming for better software, because Nokia knows how to make hardware, at least with Symbian...
What six markets? Angola, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe and Bhutan???
My Ovi maps experience is standing on oxford street in london waiting 25 minutes, losing half my battery and still not getting more than a beige map with no streets on. (London does have roads as my mates android took 30 seconds using goolge maps?) OVI maps has no voice directions and the worst UI in history EVER for trying to plot a route. Though curiously it does have an inbuilt ability to create directions on a beige map that lead me in a square, without me doing anything more than turn it on.
17 million people might use ovi maps but you don't support it on the N900. And if that is the cornerstone of your market I fear for your future as a brand.
OVI as a brand outside the dire mapping app? OVI store is still in Beta and in 1 month has had 1 new app added to it (that I can see, not that I wanted it), OVI suite doesn't support the N900 still, PC suite doesn't "totally support your phone" (Nokia's words) and so how is that OVI branding going then? Can we expect OVI mail to be better? (Probably not)
I have fourteen apps (from the community, not nokia) to connect to facebook and tw@tter and they would work great if I did social networking. But everything branded OVI doesn't work as needed or at all in some instances.
I agree with JahBless
I've just moved to a Nokia 5230, and attempted to use Ovi Suite, specifically to use the maps bit (which is why I bought this phone, instead of another). The phone is great, Ovi Suite, and the Ovi/Nokia website are just atrocious. Ovi Suite is the most bloated, buggy, crash-prone software I have installed for years. Why on earth is it so big? The website is hard to navigate, being unintuitive with lots of circular links.
Quite simply, I expected better from Nokia.
Voice directions
"OVI maps has no voice directions"
That's not true. Use Nokia Map Uploader instead of Ovi Suite.
"and the worst UI in history EVER for trying to plot a route."
It lacks some things that I would love to see included but the true is that my phone was not made with motorcycles use in mind and the same goes for the UI. But consider ir the worst UI...maybe you are not using a touch phone?
Nokia Map Uploader
Look for it and you will never look back.
I guesse someone inside Nokia was tired of using Ovi Suite...
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