Nokia released today Contacts on Ovi. If you have read my previous post Real-time web to your mobile, you can now download Contacts on Ovi to enable the IM notifications from FriendFeed to your mobile. This application now supports also S60 3.2 devices.
Have fun!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Real-time web to your mobile
A few months ago I have linked up Nokia chat to my FriendFeed profile to experiment a bit with the idea of real-time web. After using it for all this time I can say that the experience is quite interesting as it enables instant notifications to your mobile of activities your friends are sharing on FriendFeed. If you like FriendFeed and want to try a new way of getting it to your mobile, this is something you might want to consider.
If you decide to try it out, just follow the instructions below:
1. Install Nokia Chat on your phone (e.g. E71). You can find Nokia Chat for Nokia S60 3.1 devices (update: now also for S60 3.2) on Nokia Betalabs (Make sure you follow the installation instructions).
2. Sign in with your Ovi account or create a new account following the wizard on the application.
3. Go to FriendFeed and add your Ovi ID as your IM service (use GTalk profile)+ enable the IM notifications.
4. Follow the instructions on FriendFeed to complete the activation.
Leave Nokia Chat client running in background. You will start getting mobile instant notifications to your mobile whenever your friends are sharing something on FriendFeed. You can also update your FriendFeed status and like/comment your friends’ posts. Here you can find more instructions on the commands to use.
I have my e71 connected via 3G/GPRS. With a flat fee data subscription I don't need to worry about the data costs and I can be always connected. The UI is not great as it gets delivered to you as an IM but the "command line" like interface is somehow pretty practical especially if you have a QWERTY keypad and does the job quickly.
I also recommend that you consider filtering the notifications using a FriendFeed list where you add some people you want to follow realtime (otherwise you might be overloaded with notifications).
Yes, there are big margin of improvement in terms of the UI on the mobile, but this gives you a pretty good idea of what real-time web could be in the future. Watch-out! It may be addictive!
I think this is real-time web for real. The first step of making it happen.
Update (28Jan2009): If you have problems with clicking on the verification URL from friendfeed on your Nokia Chat/Contacts on Ovi mobile client, consider performing this step via a PC IM client. Info on how to set up your favourite IM client for Contacts on Ovi can be found here (click on "learn more" button.
If you decide to try it out, just follow the instructions below:
1. Install Nokia Chat on your phone (e.g. E71). You can find Nokia Chat for Nokia S60 3.1 devices (update: now also for S60 3.2) on Nokia Betalabs (Make sure you follow the installation instructions).
2. Sign in with your Ovi account or create a new account following the wizard on the application.
3. Go to FriendFeed and add your Ovi ID as your IM service (use GTalk profile)+ enable the IM notifications.
4. Follow the instructions on FriendFeed to complete the activation.
Leave Nokia Chat client running in background. You will start getting mobile instant notifications to your mobile whenever your friends are sharing something on FriendFeed. You can also update your FriendFeed status and like/comment your friends’ posts. Here you can find more instructions on the commands to use.
I have my e71 connected via 3G/GPRS. With a flat fee data subscription I don't need to worry about the data costs and I can be always connected. The UI is not great as it gets delivered to you as an IM but the "command line" like interface is somehow pretty practical especially if you have a QWERTY keypad and does the job quickly.
I also recommend that you consider filtering the notifications using a FriendFeed list where you add some people you want to follow realtime (otherwise you might be overloaded with notifications).
Yes, there are big margin of improvement in terms of the UI on the mobile, but this gives you a pretty good idea of what real-time web could be in the future. Watch-out! It may be addictive!
I think this is real-time web for real. The first step of making it happen.
Update (28Jan2009): If you have problems with clicking on the verification URL from friendfeed on your Nokia Chat/Contacts on Ovi mobile client, consider performing this step via a PC IM client. Info on how to set up your favourite IM client for Contacts on Ovi can be found here (click on "learn more" button.
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