With the introduction made for Share on Ovi and its massive file-hosting service, now comes the time for you to harness the seamless integration between your Nokia device and Share on Ovi. To harness the full potential of your Nokia device, the first order of business is to ensure that your Nokia device is Share on Ovi ready. To date, the recently launched Nokia N96 has joined the Nokia N78 and Nokia 6220 Classic as one of the many devices that’ll comes integrated with Share Online 3.0 during your very first start up. Nonetheless, should you be utilizing your faithful Nokia N95 8GB or previous models, you can still get the Share Online 3.0 from Nokia’s website, so click here to download the latest version of Share Online. Connect your Nokia device to your PC and choose PC Suite to allow your Nokia PC Suite to install Share Online 3.0 once you double click on the downloaded file.

With that done and settled, we now move on to the initial setup of your Ovi account with Share Online 3.0. To locate the installed application, navigate to your Menu > Applications, and you’ll notice the Share Online icon sitting right there.

Click on it, and you’ll now see three available accounts for you to setup, namely Ovi, Flickr and Vox. We’ll be focusing on Ovi for now, so click on Ovi to start the activation process. Your device will prompt you about the existence of your Ovi account. By answering No, you’ll be forwarded to the Ovi website via your mobile device, but our advice is for you to create your account using your PC on the Ovi website.

Following which, enter your login ID and password, and with that done, you’ll be required to connect to the Internet as your Nokia device retrieves the list of services tied to your Ovi account. With a successful connection, you’ll see a notice informing you that your account has been successfully activated, and you are ready to upload and view any content within your Share on Ovi account.

As you can see from within the menu, you’ll have the required access to the necessary features as seen on the Share on Ovi website. Check your latest uploaded media, either through your PC or your Nokia device, or view photos as shared by your friends and contacts within Share on Ovi. Furthermore, you’ll be constantly updated with any ongoing comments on your latest uploads and given a direct access to the Share on Ovi website.

To make Share on Ovi easily accessible, once you’ve activated your Share on Ovi account on your Nokia device, a shortcut will be placed on the Home screen, thus giving you easy access to the Share Online application which is linked to your Share on Ovi account. And now, with all the initialization and setup done, we’ll show you how you can share your media with the click of a few buttons using Share on Ovi.

For any existing media within your gallery, you can easily upload your images to Share on Ovi once you’ve done the initial setup. As depicted above, choosing the Share icon will now link you directly to Share on Ovi, and once you’ve selected it, the media of your choice will be directly uploaded to your Share on Ovi account. Of course, any immediate photos taken will also have the option to upload onto Share on Ovi, thus you won’t have to go through numerous levels just to upload a photo that you’ve just taken.

Once you’ve uploaded your media, let’s take a trip back to your Share on Ovi account on your Nokia device. After you’ve updated your latest uploads, you’ll notice that there’s a small star icon on the top right, indicating that it was a recent upload. Additionally, should there be any comments made on your recent uploads, you’ll notice a red speech bubble attached to the image.

On your device, you can view the image details and specifics such as date and time uploaded, description, and even tags will be displayed. Furthermore, should you wish to share your uploaded media with others who don’t have access to Share on Ovi, you can do so by selecting “Send link” and you’ll send the URL to your friends via text messaging.

And that’s the basics of Share on Ovi on your Nokia device. In our concluding article, we’ll go one step further and showcase how Share on Ovi is more than just a file-hosting site that links to your Nokia device, sharing some tips and tricks on how you can fully utilize Share on Ovi’s capability as an online portal to host a variety of media.