Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 has been released and I have been testing it for a few days now. I must say the guys at Ovi are on to something with their new suite.

With the new suite you have all you need in just one window no need to launch other applications. Each function has its own tab which are very easy to access. Just point and click; the selected tab will turn full screen in no time. All the other applications such as Nokia Messaging and Nokia Software Update are all here. To sync your data with the Ovi Suite just press sync on the data you want to be synced.

Now lets talk design, well in this area I am very pleased with Nokia. The design is simple,fast and elegant. Just the one window as I said with beautiful animations and a sense of simplicity. The message tab shows the message and a picture of the one who send as a photo slide show. Plus, the messaging windows displays all your messages as if you were chatting.

However the Ovi Suite 2.0 is just a Beta so here is a list of known issues:

The Helps are not yet complete

Messaging:

• Multimedia messages (MMS) are not yet supported in Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0

Software Updates, device firmware update:

• If automatic download is enabled and in progress, it continues in various places although download should end. This causes delays when shutting down Nokia Ovi Suite.
• Device may not be recognized after a device firmware update. In these cases check whether Windows recognizes this. If not, restarting Windows helps.
• If Nokia Ovi Suite is minimized to tray during a device firmware update, the firmware update wizard cannot proceed to firmware update, the wizard ends with an internal error.

Software Updates, Nokia Ovi Suite update:

• Problems shutting down Nokia Ovi Suite from Software Updates. You may need to end NokiaOviSuite.exe file using task manager.

First Time Use & connectivity:

• Automatic adapter installation (if installation fails in First Time Use à “postponed” is shown)
• Media Transfer mode: May contain issues
• Problems may occur with multiple devices over Bluetooth connection (active connection established and a new device is paired to Nokia Ovi Suite at the same time) with certain Bluetooth stacks

Music:

• On some computers Nokia Ovi Suite is unable to show music content in watch folders. (User has to add those tracks manually)
• With certain device models music playlists may not transfer to device
• With certain device models music playlists may not be shown from device
• Sometimes you have to manually refresh (F5 button) before transferred content is shown from the device
• Music purchased from Nokia Music Store: you can transfer music into your device using Nokia Ovi Suite. However, you need to re-license music with device when playing music tracks
• Crashes sometimes happen during transfer and when creating playlists
• Cancel button in Music tab of options dialog does not work
• The error message is not shown when disconnecting the device during transferring