http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/ Engadget Comments for Nokia Ovi crash results in three weeks of lost user data http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
Nokia's services are rubbish and aren't used by normal non-geeks. Stick to your hardware, Nokia, these shitty services of yours won't get you anywhere.]]>Feb 12th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
So uh, yeah.

http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2009/02/12/contacts-on-ovi-beta-database-failed-my-deepest-and-most-sincere-apologies/]]>Feb 12th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
The difference here is Nokia haven't marketed this as a production service. Two people work on it and the only data lost is superficial.

In the meantime Ovi as a whole is coming along really nicely and seamlessly integrates Nokia Music - which links in with WMP and iTunes for playlist transfer and content management - Nokia Photos - which holds a gallery of all your imaged media content and automatically converts any video file to a format supported by your phone in the resolution you choose - Nokia Software Update (which is OTA on later handsets too), Maploader and a good few other features.

To suggest that Nokia aren't making something pretty spectacular is just plain crazy.]]>Feb 12th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/After Apple's disastrous start with MobileMe, would you recommend the say thing to them?]]>Feb 12th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
I guess that means don't trust your data solely to the cloud.

I know Live Mesh stores backups locally, not sure who else.]]>Feb 12th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
But this (and the recent outage of Magnolia) is a good reminder of the risks of cloud-only data storage...it's a bit like a plane crash. Problems thankfully don't occur often, but when they do, there are lots of casualties - while with local storage, there might be more individual problems, but at least it's completely in your hand to handle backups, and data loss doesn't affect thousands of users at a time...]]>Feb 12th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 13th 2009 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
Thus we learn once again the perils of mainfra...er, the cloud, and perhaps start the swing back the other way.]]>Feb 12th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 13th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/
1) It's a screw up affecting a pretty small number of people
2) Some chat logs are lost
3) Some profile changes, images and details are lost
4) Virtually all of this will have been backed up on the phone or on the user's computer.

It's small beans.]]>Feb 12th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/nokia-ovi-crash-results-in-three-weeks-of-lost-user-data/Feb 12th 2009 9:15PM