Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta Updated: Graduates from Nokia Betalabs

Nokia’s Ovi Suite v2.0 Beta got an update earlier today to version 2.0.0.10. The Update also means that Ovi Suite has now moved out of Beta, and has graduated from Nokia BetaLabs.

The Crew from BetaLabs have yet to officially post about the update, but here’s what Samuli Ylinen, from the product management team for Nokia Ovi Suite, had to say in the BetaLabs forum :

As some you Betalabs users noticed, we started yesterday deploying Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 release via web update for existing Beta users. At the same time, users visiting ovi.com’s and nokia.com’s Nokia Ovi Suite web pages, were able to download Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 release.

This means, that Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta is now Graduated from Nokia Betalabs, going into public and many many users will start to use this application around globe. We’re also working towards placing Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 into product CD/DVDs in device sales boxes.

Good work that you have done with Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta is now benefiting these new users, who start to use Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0. This is good opportunity for us in Nokia Ovi Suite team to thank you for your efforts. We’ve masses of feedback and feature suggestions from you available and we’re consolidating that feedback, what could be done in future Nokia Ovi Suite releases.

What comes to next versions of Nokia Ovi Suite? Our developers are already heavily working towards next Nokia Ovi Suite releases and our hope is, that we will get some new features available for you in coming months.

So keep on using the official Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 release, you can continue providing feedback about that in Nokia Betalabs discussion forum.

Edit: BetaLabs just posted about the update. They basically said the same thing (seeing how the blog post was written by Samuli himself again) but here’s an Interesting bit they added in :

Creating new products with this level of complexity is never easy. Last year, Nokia had many different PC application products, like Nokia PC Suite, Nokia Ovi Suite 1.0/1.1, Nokia Nseries PC Suite, Nokia Music, Nokia Software Updater, Nokia Map Loader, Nokia PC Suite Enterprise Edition etc etc, each having different targets, feature sets and design principles. This way of working didn’t lead anymore to any positive outcome, most of the effort was going into maintenance and minor improvements and prevented us from concentrating on new things, improving user experience and supporting other than Windows operating system. So we started to really think, what are most important features from end user point of view, which they can’t survive without. Below you see one conceptual screenshot from Nokia Ovi Suite, which was explored during last year. Lots of end user surveying and explorations were done, before we decided the features for the first Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 release. But as you can see from screenshot, there are tons things, which we are thinking, evaluating and planning for upcoming Nokia Ovi Suite releases. Also change into Qt framework makes it easier from developer point of view and gives us possibility to support other operating systems, like Mac OSX in future.

Currently Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 supports exactly 142 different device models from Nokia (over 200, if you count in all different variants). Lots of issues found by you have been incorporated into product during the development.

You can download the new update from Nokia.com’s Ovi Suite Page or if you already have Ovi Suite, just wait for the update prompt.

Personally, while I’m happy to see how Ovi Suite is developing to be a great desktop application, but it still has to grow in a couple areas for me to switch over completely from good ol’ Nokia PC Suite.

Still, Congrats to the Ovi Suite Team on this major Milestone in the development of the Nokia Ovi Suite !