Nokia Mobile Data Suite 4.x

Although my Bluetooth connects fine to my 6600. The Data Suite will not connect to my phone.

It is the same when I have tried with the Infra-Red, again it will not connect although the Infr-Red will connect with it's own 'Handset Manager' programe.

Every effort to contact Nokia for assistance just sends you around in circles back to the same switcboard and just clocks up a large phone bill.

Nokia PC Suite = Bloody Useless

I upgraded my Nokia 6210 to a Nokia 6310i mobile phone and tried to use Nokia Mobile Data Suite 4 (Content Copier 1.3) to copy the settings between them.

When copying the content to the new phone it failed and the phone switched itself off halfway through - NEVER TO SWITCH ON AGAIN !!!

I replaced the phone and tried again - same problem.

Looks like I'll be copying the data over by hand !!!

.. Ken

I was looking for software to connect my Nokia 8310 to my PC so I could swap contacts and appointments from MS Outlook. I found this in Nokia's FREE Data suite.

The software has several components as part of its single install executable:

Content Copier

PC Wap manager

Phone Editor

PC Graphics editor

PC Ringtone Composer

Connection Manager

The phone connects to the PC using IrDA and appears under the 'Connection manager'.

The Phone Content Copier allows copying of ALL phone contents to PC, PC to phone, phone to phone. It is possible to read/write sections of the phone e.g. Phonebook, Messages, Settings. Files saved to PC are in the readable CSV spreadsheet format. The phone contents are saved as separate files such as 'phonebook.csv', 'messages.csv' and so on. A very good way of doing things as these are very easy to read using Excel and it's possible to import to PIM's such as Outlook.

The Syncronisation manager provides syncronisation with a PIM such as Outlook. I haven't played with this a great deal but it seems to do its job and sycronises calendar and contacts... Very business practical. I'm sure when I get an Ir port at work, this feature will become very useful.

Ringtone Composer allows the editing of ringtones, It has load and save features and again works reasonably well. Ringtones annoy me but I can see the appeal of this tool to kids.

The PC Graphics editor is a nice tool for the creating and editing of all sorts of logo's on the phone. It works quite well as logos created here can be saved on the phone and used in SMS messages. it can change the operator logos too (nice).

The PC Wap Manager is a bookmark and settings manager. It also works well allowing you to change all the settings and bookmarks again offering the ability to save to .csv. I like Nokia's use of standard file formats. It is much better that other software I've seen that uses their own format.

The Nokia Phone Editor is perhaps the jewel in this software collection as this tool offers Full control of the phone. You can add/remove contacts and messages in realtime reading and writing to the phone. It is also possible to save the SMS folders too thus allowing you to keep those amusing text messages that previously had to be deleted to make room for new ones.

Overall I couldn't ask for more in a software suite. It has all the key features and is very easy to use. Also it is Free and easily accessed although at 20mb it's a hefty download. I'd still give it a very high rating. A very impressive straightforward software collection.