N75 Part VII: Connecting with Ovi

Nearly a month ago, Ovi by Nokia released their sync platform allowing you to backup and manage contacts, todos, notes, and calendar from either the web or your mobile device and keep them in sync.

The setup is a breeze, but as far as I can tell, you have to use their configuration wizard, which consists of going to Ovi on the web, entering your phone model and number and then receiving a text message that automatically configures the sync settings for you. It is a really easy and simple setup process and I have had no problems until today when I decided to add my older N75 to make it a better backup phone. I tried simply copying the working settings from my N82. I duplicated every single setting, but the sync fails for some reason. I can only guess there is a hidden setting in there somewhere I am not able to set.

Unfortunately, the N75 appears to be the only Nseries device not listed on the site. Instead, I chose another Series 60, feature pack 0 device such as the N70, entered my phone number and configured the phone as normal when I received the configuration message. Interestingly, the site does recognize the N75 after I synced with it, even though I could not configure that handset. Looks like they do not have the correct stock photo in there and my N75 looks like an N95. Boy, I wish!

Now I have the N75 synchronizing with Ovi and I did not get a ton of duplicate contacts as I had feared. When I originally migrated from my N75 to my N82, I used the Nseries Suite to backup my contacts and then restore them on the new phone. The only duplicates I have are the ones to which I made changes since the export/import, which makes sense and is very little trouble to cleanup.