Nokia Nseries PC Suite 2.0 beta almost launched
Nokia Beta Labs
- September 11th, 2007
Symbian-Freak was quick to notice that we (almost) launched Nokia Nseries PC Suite 2.0 in Nokia Beta Labs.
Just as we had published it, however, I got a call from the R&D team, and they recommended postponing the launch until later this week, when they get a better version ready. So I decided to take the page down. There’s a delay before the main page gets updated, so there’ll be a dead link for a while.
Oh well. I hope this kind of hassle is acceptable in Beta Labs context. We’ll deliver a better beta package as soon as possible.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Update: comments thread closed. Nokia Beta Labs blog and all related discussions have been moved to http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog.
Opps, I had already grabbed it and installed. I guess I don’t have to hurry to write about it quite so fast. I was beating Nokia Photos into submission when I saw this blog post.
Well I all for holding the release a few days for a better product, even if it is beta. To many companies are in a hurry to get stuff out the door that they often let quality suffer (Nokia is not exactly innocent either, but this is a good sign).
Thanks for the clarification on the issue.
One suggestion I have if the R&D team is tweaking it.
PLEASE MAKE IT WORK THROUGH PROXY SERVERS!
I feel I have to shout because it always seems to fall on deaf ears at Nokia. Also, NSU and Map Loader need to work through proxies.
After all, can you think of any software, aside from Nokia’s, that cant access through proxies? I can’t.
Thanks for the update Tommi. I had posted this early in the morning and left for the day. Didn’t realize that it was a no go until I got back home and had a few comments. Lol ironically it was still downloading after 6 hours of me not being home!
I know you won’t answer, but I’ll ask anyway: why a separate PC Suite for N-Series S60 only?
> I know you won’t answer, but I’ll ask anyway:
> why a separate PC Suite for N-Series S60 only?
As said before, in this kind of situations there are two possible explanations:
1) Differentiation (i.e. offering something unique & valuable for some particular market segment, and charging higher price)
2) Conway’s Law (i.e. the organization’s output reflects the organization’s inner structure)
In this case, I believe it’s more about differentiation.
Note that this was just my personal half-***ed interpretation, not an Official Nokia Reply.
It does work with HTTP proxies, using the settings from Internet Eplorer. What does your Internet Explorer proxy configuration dialog look like?
Is there any way to back up ALL my SMS/MMS messages as well?
I have hundreds of personal messages I would like to conserve and I cannot send SMS via Bluetooth or whatnot.
Any chance of doing this in the PC Suite or with some application?
I have a Nokia N80
Thanks!
twaltari, it doesnt work through proxies (PC Suite doesnt need to connect to internet anyway, just if you launch NSU from PC Suite).
I have used both auto config scripts for proxy and also standard proxy (proxy 8080). Neither NSU or Map Loader will force a password prompt. All they ever do is tell me there is a network error/check connection.
And yes, I have tried no firewall etc
@zo
At least you can make this trick for SMS and PC SUITE: open “Messages” app from PC SUITE, highlight the syncronised messages and then COPY (to computer) with right-click. Done! (Didn’t try with MMS).
Tommi,
the differentiation explanation for an NSeries PCSuite would be a nice one if it didn’t contradict the whole ‘platform’ mantra that Nokia has been pushing for so long. Lately, I strongly believe that it is the company’s internal structures that is indeed reflected in its output, such as having certain software only run on certain models.
The other explanation would be that Nokia intends to optimize segmentation and silos, and therefore is trying to screw their customers by not making software available for some models.