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Nokia Conversations announced today that they will be discontinuing access to the Ovi Contacts website come January 24, 2012.
Ofcourse Contacts on your Nokia phone will not be affected, and if you still use the service on your Symbian phone you can continue syncing and backing up, but you will not be able to have web access to your contacts on ovi.com any longer. You still have six weeks before the service is going to be discontinued though, so you can export your synced Contacts data to alternative services like Hotmail, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Yahoo! Mail, gMail or Apple Address Book (Lion OS):
- Visit contactsui.ovi.com from your personal computer.
- Login to your Ovi account.
- Click the green button below the message text.
- Save the file to your local drive (take a note of the folder you put it in).
- Click on the file to review and access your data file
- Your contact data is in .csv format.
- Once you have selected an alternate contact service, follow their import instructions.
- When you asked to select a file for import, select to your Ovi Contact data file.
- Further information on this transition is available on our support pages.
Nokia’s saying this move was a business decision to help them focus on their ‘core service offerings with the new business unit Location & Commerce, established in July 2011 at the center of Nokia’s revised services strategy’.
I know a couple Linux and Mac users that used to use the service. Just a handful. They’re going to be pretty disappointed. Personally I’ve never used Ovi Contacts ever since Ovi Sync messed up my phonebook entries that one time. So far Google’s contact sync seems to be working just fine for me.
More info over on Nokia Conversations.
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