One component of Nokia's Ovi which hasn't had quite so much attention is Sync. This just popped up on the main Ovi toolbar, trailing what Sync will offer. See below for the details.
Read on in the full article.http://www.hongblog.net
I'm pretty annoyed that I have to have different accounts for all these Ovi services.
Maps, Music Store, N-Gage, Twango, Sync, etc.
Why doesn't Ovi have one unified ID? that tab has been there for a long time already... @fernando: glad you spotted it a while ago, but it was new to Rafe, Ewan and I - somebody should have said something 8-)
Anyway, it's reasonably new and worthy of debate, IMHO. Personally, I've been syncing moderately happily to Google through GooSync, but Nokia's Ovi carries a lot of weight too. Maybe.
Steve @Dr Tran
Good point, whats the point of a unified Ovi brand without a unified account? I only have a few hundred thousand usernames and passwords. I want more.
Seriously though, passwords etc, are getting out of hand these days. We need a decent solution. I don't care much about ovi but if you need mulitiple passwords for different areas then I certainly won't be trying / using it. I am sure I will not be the person. As a person living in Finland, I can see why all these multiple passwords and logins exist. Finland lives by the password and user log in. If any part of the Ovi development is done in Finland, you can rest assured there will be multiple passwords, logins, secret hand-shakes, eye-winks, etc...... This is typical Finnish and when you try to point it out to them how illogical this, the Mr. Spock in them comes out and they will defend a completely illogical position with equally illogical logic. to say this is annoying is an understatement.
Hopefully someone not as logical will decide that having one user ID spread across multiple services will be completely illogical and implement it.
Kirk out Sapporobaby, could you give up the racism please. Apart from being offensive you're factually incorrect.
Nokia's Finnish CEO already said at Ovi's launch last year that the whole point of Ovi is to have a unified login. They want unified login, they just haven't achieved it yet.
When Google bought YouTube, they didn't instantly have a unified login with other Google services, it took a while to happen. When Google bought Blogger in 2004, they didn't migrate it to Google servers and logins until 2006. When companies buy online services made by other companies, they can't just immediately integrate them into their other services. It just isn't that easy to do, especially if there are millions of members.
The reason the Ovi services currently have separate logins is because they were all made by separate companies, and they all pre-date Ovi's existence.
-N-Gage as a platform was already in development way back in 2005 (they even had screenshots back then of the current interface). The network it runs on, SNAP, was developed by Sega, not Nokia.
-Ovi Share is a rebranded version of Twango, which was a totally separate company. Nokia only bought it in July 2007, and Ovi launched in August 2007.
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