Yesterday, in the early parts of the day our house was robbed, including my Nokia N800, N810, N95 8GB and a trial N81 8GB device I had in my room. One of the devices, a N91 8GB must have fallen underneath a pillow and was left behind by the robbers. Besides loosing my devices, I was worried about loosing all of my contacts information. All worried, I sat to think how I was going to get all my contact information back. The thought about loosing all of this data I had built up over the year was a scary one, definitely one I didn’t want to consider. But hey, I had to. Normally, I would use PC Suite or OVI Suite to sync this info with my notebook PC, but sadly even that was taken.
It wasn’t until a few hours later I realized that I had setup OVI Sync on my N95 8GB and had synced everything with the online OVI Sync service. All of my appointments, notes and contacts were safely stored online, ready to be access from any PC and sync with any new Nseries device I would purchase in the future. I could also remove the old device right from the online service and add the new one. This can be a handy feature for especially businessman, where literally the contacts are more important than the device itself, but hey it can be useful for anyone, in my case a life saver. This also proves the power of “Cloud Computing”, the idea of having all your data safely stored online, ready to be accessed from any PC and put on your next device.
Has OVI sync proven to be useful for you? Do you think Nokia should go for an entirely online (browser-based) phone management software?
Has OVI sync proven to be useful for you? <- No, since I cannot currently use it due to it’s limitation to Windows.
Do you think Nokia should go for an entirely online (browser-based) phone management software? <- Yes, since restrictions to certain computer platforms are no longer acceptable in my opinion.
Sorry to hear about your break in my friend. I hope your insurance covers everything. I use OVI too, and its priceless.
Ohh ,I’m really sad about that,those are valuable stuff.
Anyway OVI sync is superb in syncing,thats true.
@Stefan Sarzio OVI sync for appointments, contacts, and notes doesn’t need Windows for OTA synchronization to OVI for online storage. Surely that has some utility?
Oh man that sucks, so sorry to hear about that, I know it had to be difficult to go thru such a bad situation. I have used the ovi sync online and it has saved me twice now, I lost my hard drive on my laptop once and for some reason lost my saved info, so this was a life saver for sure. Hope you get your things back and all goes well getting your life back in order.
Hi, that’s very bad
I lost my N82 which I just use for <3 months with the newly launched 8GB SanDisk micro-SDHC
After that, I have to spend another sum to buy a new N82, but using 2GB default memory card only. That was a big hit to me! Luckily, since I just upgraded to 8GB card a week earlier before the theft, my 2GB card has most (99%) of the contacts, sms, images, etc.
But in your case, it is even worst !!! Sorry to hear it. But think about the bright side, at least the thief (or thieves) didn’t wake you up, or knife you or tie you up, torture, etc.
BTW, I’m waiting eagerly for the 16GB micro-SDHC
About the OVI Suite, the interface is so simplified that I don’t like it. Of course it will be useful and many people will use it as long as it’s free.
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