Thanks to our eagle-eyed friend at TheNokiaGuide, we’ve discovered that Nokia has eliminated the monthly subscription for anytime files on their Ovi Files service! The pricing used to be a monthly fee, with the option for either a 10GB or 30GB bucket of online storage. A quick check of my account shows that I now have 10GB of complementary service, which is certainly much appreciated.
Ovi Files is the result of Nokia’s purchase of Avvenu, a service that I had been checking out since before Nokia purchased them. Basically, there is a PC-based (Windows only, unfortunately) Ovi Files Agent that runs on your connected computers, constantly synchronizing files with the online server (sort of). Initially, the free version required that your home computer be on and connected in order for you to access your files. The ‘Anytime Files’ were ones that were copied onto Nokia’s server in your Ovi Files account, so that you could access them, well, anytime.
I, for one, use Ovi Files nearly every day, for various purposes, usually installing things to my various phones. There’s a helpful widget that you can download, though it doesn’t really do much, aside from automatically logging you in to the mobile site. We recently thought of a host of ways that Nokia could add some real value to the Ovi Files product, and I really hope that they were listening, because, especially now that it’s free, they could really gain some attention with it.
In any case, you can get more info over at Ovi Files.
