Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Nokia’s Ovi Mail ideal for Ghana

Despite the large number of people without access to personal computers (PC) in Ghana and in other developing countries, staying in touch with business partners, friends and family can be hassle-free and fun with the introduction of Ovi Mail by Nokia.

Nokia hopes to make the use of Ovi Mail an appropriate technology that will help to bridge the information gap.

Providing 1 GB of storage, Ovi Mail provides access to one´s account anytime and anywhere as it can be used on your mobile phone or accessed as free webmail on any PC.

The inspiration for Ovi Mail, the brand for Nokia’s e-mail service, came from the growing number of people - mostly in developing countries such as Ghana - without access to a PC. Ovi Mail is a free e-mail that you can use directly from your Nokia device.

Since its inception in December 2008, Ovi Mail is now available in more than 180 countries and supports 20 languages. The Ovi Mail service saw over one million accounts activated in just over six months after launch and is quickly establishing itself as the email account for the developing world. It is fast becoming one of the leading mobile email services also for Africa.

Ovi Mail is free to set-up straight out of the box and is extremely simple to do. It also comes with spam filters to block unwanted emails. It is also accessible from a broad range of Nokia devices with the Nokia 2330 classic, Nokia 2630 and Nokia 5310 XpressMusic being some of the most popular devices used

The word "ovi" means "door" in Finnish and is a metaphor for your mobile door to a world of Internet services. In addition to Ovi Mail, which forms part of the messaging service, Ovi by Nokia also focusses on other key services such as Games, Navigation, Media, Messaging and Music.

In June last year, Nokia launched Nokia Ovi Suite for PC, the desktop part of the Ovi system, which allows the user to transfer content (pictures, music files, videos, etc.) between a mobile device and a computer; back-up their personal information on their computer and easily drag and drop pictures and videos to Share on Ovi.

A Mac OS X compatible version was announced in November 2008, and has been 'expected soon' ever since. No updates on this announcement have been made available to date.

In August, the latest version of Ovi.com was made available. It offers free functionality for syncing your calendar, contacts, notes and tasks between a Nokia mobile device and www.ovi.com.

The service can be used as a way to backup your data or to edit it in your computer to then send it back to your phone.

The Ovi Store, which was launched worldwide in May 2009, also enables customers to download mobile games, applications, videos, images, and ring-tones to their Nokia devices. Some of the items are free of charge while others can be purchased using credit cards or through operator billing in selected operators. The content in Ovi Store is sorted into the following categories: Applications, which includes social networking; Audio and video, which includes music and podcasts; Games, of which there is a huge variety; and Device Personalisation, which includes ringtones.

Ovi Store offers customers content that is compatible with their mobile device and relevant to their tastes and location. Customers can share recommendations with their friends, see what they are downloading, and let them see the items you are interested in.

With the Ovi Maps Internet service, customers can browse places from all over the world, plan trips, search for addresses and points of interest, and save them on Ovi. Ovi Maps for web-sites/pages can be used on any browser and any operating system for PCs including Macs.

If the Ovi Maps 3.0 application (formerly known as Nokia Maps) is installed in your compatible Nokia mobile device, you can synchronise places, collections, and routes between Ovi Maps and your mobile device. You need to have a Nokia account to be able to synchronise.

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