Nokia Suite (formerly Nokia Ovi Suite) is an application for

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users to connect their devices with

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. The service was originally developed by Nokia but was subsequently taken over by

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Overview

Nokia Suite can synchronize contacts, calendar, messages, photos, videos and music between a Nokia device and a PC. Additionally, Nokia Suite can download country maps to Nokia devices, backup or restore the contents of devices, connect the PC to the Internet via mobile device (

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) and update the device software. Nokia Suite cannot be used with a Lumia or newer Nokia Asha phones. This application is officially not available to download. Nokia Suite is a replacement for

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and was integrated with the '' Ovi'' brand of services. It was originally known as ''Nokia Ovi Suite'' but the name changed to ''Nokia Suite'' with the release of version 3.2.64 Beta in October 2011. Nokia Suite does not have a lot of the features provided in Nokia PC Suite, such as organizing contacts by phone number or exporting into CSV format. It can, however, export contacts (including their groups) into Vcard format. Nokia Suite can perform a complete backup of the phone contents to a single file with .nbu

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. The only official way to gain access to the contents of the backup is to restore it to the phone using Nokia Suite. However, there are third-party programs that can read these files with some success such as the shareware Noki.

References

External links

Nokia Suite at the Microsoft Download Centre
(archived) {{Nokia services Nokia services Mobile software Mobile device management software

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