Ovi Chat - Nokia Chat service

What is Ovi Chat:

Ovi chat is Nokia’s free chat service,  it’s available public and for mostly every recent device wheather S60v3, S60v5 or even S40. The service works seemlessly on both Wi-Fi and GPRS and the user has the choice to use either one. It can work in the back ground perfectly (not available on S40) as in BB  ad can be integrated in the contacts as shown above.

Features:

- Ovi Account: Ovi account  is much more than just chat. Ovi Account work as your Nokia email (yourname@Ovi.com) and you can access it from your mobile and Ovi mail website. Plus your account allows you to access Ovi and sync your contacts, files, photos, calendar entries, to-do-list, notes from and to your phone and access them all in the website.

- Back support: This is may be the most critical, supporting fairly old and simple phones, Nokia is playing a smart game locking customers. List of supported phones quoted from Nokia Beta Labs

Latest Ovi Contacts (version 1.5) compatible with: Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6760, Nokia 6790, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia N86 8MP, Nokia 6730 Classic, Nokia  5800 Xpress Music (excluding PR1.0), Nokia X6, Nokia 5530 Xpress Music, Nokia 5230, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini Previous Ovi Contacts versions certified devices include: Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 6720 classic, Nokia E90, Nokia N73 (3.0638 and newer), Nokia E65, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia E51, Nokia N82, Nokia E71, Nokia E66, Nokia E63, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic (06.65 and newer), Nokia 7510 Supernova (6.55 and newer), Nokia 6700 classic (7.60 and newer), Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, Nokia N810 WiMax Edition. For these devices, a localized client is either pre-installed in the device or available via mobile download. Previous Ovi Contacts versions have also been tested to work on the following devices: Nokia N97, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia E61i, Nokia E62, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia N80, Nokia N77, Nokia N75, Nokia 6290, Nokia N76, Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, Nokia 6120 classic, Nokia E90, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6124 classic, Nokia E75, 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.

- Personalization: It’s so fabulous !! you can hava an avatar (a small photo next toy your name, not the movie ), a status that you can replace with what you are listinging to.

- Rich Profile: You can have your personal email, mobile, country, city and homepage, for wonderful experience.

- Availability: You can let eveyone knows when you’re availabe, busy, working, ready to chat and even you can go invisible (like offline in MSN).

- Fast message delivery: It wont take more than milliseconds to deliver messages. Tested on wireless conection on 3.5G and it’s typically the same. Also tested with 2G, the difference is not that significant and could hardly be noticed.

- Share your location: For GPS supporting phones, you can share your location with friends.

Shortcoming:

Though this is not a final and official version, it works flawlessly on the phones mentioned above. It, however has some disadvantages over competitors.

- Lack of groups: Ovi chat works like a charm but only between two contacts and it is so far the only significant shortcoming. There are neither pre-found groups nor user created ones. This is the fundamental idea behind the evolution of black berry, and if Nokia wants to give no chance for compition this is the key.

- Sudden crash: This happend few times during testing on N97, N82 and N76, but this is not a big deal as the it can be fixed in upcoming updates.

- Lack of popularity: The service is still not vary common at least here in Saudi Arabia. It could be because it’s not been officially realized.

For more information and downloading Ovi chat you can visit its page on Nokia Beta Labs:

http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/ovi-contacts

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