31 December 2009

New Version of Ovi Contacts Application
Brings Dozens Of Minor Bug Fixes & Improvements

It’s time for the semi-monthly update of the Nokia Ovi Contacts application (previously known as Nokia Chat).

Kristian Luoma, Product Manager, Ovi Contacts has released the new version of the Ovi contacts client that delivers dozens of minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

To name a few from the long list of solved issues, here's a few worth mentioning: Send file was working only from chat view, not from the friend list before, but now it works, Issues with Cyrilic and Scandinavian letters were fixed as well. Furthermore, E-mail field in 'My profile' didn't accept "-" character is fixed now as well as Corrupted pics in personal and friends profile.

Also something that was highly requested by many Spanish speaking friends of ours was that we'd put the download up to Beta Labs in a way that it contains all languages supported. Now it should.

In addition, we had time to do one more feature from the list you provided in return for your feature suggestion. Simple feature for combining all your sent messages in to a "single bubble" instead of many "subsequent bubbles" was suggested by alsiladka in the forum.

Basically, it makes better use of the screen real-estate while you exchange a lot of messages. I think it looks much better. Here's how it appears:

For those who don’t know - Nokia Chat is a Presence and IM client that integrates to your Contacts Application.

It is more than just messaging as it allows you to share your status and your location, giving you physical presence! It’s all about keeping close to people who matter. With Ovi Contacts, you can let your friends know what you are doing and where you are. You can also check your friends' status messages to see what your friends are up to. Ovi Contacts is all about keeping in touch with people who matter.

Contacts on Ovi offers experience very close to what Nokia Chat offered to you - it’s a natural evolution of what Nokia Chat was. Contacts on Ovi application is compatible with all 3rd Ed devices but unfortunately it lacks support for the first touch based S60 phone and the 5tzh edition of the S60 platform!

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