Ovi Contacts is another application form the Nokia Beta Labs. It is somewhat of an IM client which is available on almost all of the S60 3^rd and 5^th Edition devices. Ovi Contacts which was known as Contacts on Ovi is still not finished yet but it runs pretty stable. There were already some updates which got rid of bugs and introduced some new improvements.

What Ovi Contacts basically does is that it allows you to chat with your friends and shows your presence to them. With this app you can also show your friends what music you are listening to, your current location or your call status. The location feature is pretty nice. You can mark the place where you are at and share it with your friends. On the app itself the name of the location will be shown. It is also possible to let your friends view your location on a map via Nokia Maps.

At the moment Ovi Contacts only allows you to add contacts from Google Talk but not the other popular IM clients like MSN, Yahoo, ICQ etc. Because of this the app is somewhat limited but since it still is in development this can change pretty soon.

Some features that are missing are for example group chat and transfer of data like pictures and such. Even if it isn’t a very good IM client at the moment it is definitely heading into the right direction. It is a very nice app to socialize with your friends.

Like with all web based mobile applications it is recommendable to have a data flat which covers the bandwidth usage of Ovi Contacts even though it uses very little bandwidth.

To download it just visit the Nokia Beta Labs.

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