Unified login for Nokia services on the way, Nokia Account site goes live

Nokia is going to unify its Ovi and other online services using a single login system called Nokia Account. In theory you can already register your Nokia Account username on the official website, though the registration section seems to be down for maintenance right now so you may want to check back later (it did work yesterday and many have already registered). At the moment Nokia Account is only being used by a few services, most notably Nokia Chat, but eventually it will be used by the entire Ovi suite including Ovi Share, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music, N-Gage etc. We've mentioned this before in other recent AAS items, but a lot of our readers apparently still don't know about this unification, so we thought it deserved a bit more publicity.

If you're wondering exactly how the Nokia Account service will be implemented, there's an excellent help section on the Nokia Account website which answers most of the main questions.

One interesting little nugget: If you register for Nokia Account through the Nokia Chat application, you get given a username in the form username@ovi.com, which perhaps suggests that Nokia may start an Ovi e-mail service at some point in the future?

Published by Tzer2 at 12:39 UTC, July 14th

Categories: Miscellaneous, Links of Interest
Platforms: Series 60, General, N-Gage, S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

Unregistered

Comment: new account -> "service not available"

Tzer2

Comment: Oh dear... well, it worked when I tried it yesterday. I'll alter the story a bit to take account of this.

Unregistered

Comment: Did this a few days ago, worked well then...

Unregistered

Comment: If already registered with "My Nokia" that link is still available.

ccraig

Comment: i still think you'll beable to use old account id for some sites when this is widespread like on youtube you can login with your old youtube id or google accounts id.
so i think it will be like that for a service like n-gage too could you imagine how mad 1000's would be if their profiles was wiped and had to use the new service ,restarting your forum rank and N-gage points again
It'll work as a alternative login what you can link to existing account i think

Unregistered

Comment: Hi, though the site is locked you can still create an account. Go to [url]http://my.nokia.com/nl[/url] create an account. Then go to [url]https://account.nokia.com/[/url] . Then click on

"Have you already signed up to My Nokia? Sign in here to complete your Nokia Account registration. "

Do so, enter your mynokia details and voila. You have an unique acount.

Cheers,

snoyt

snoyt

Comment: ehh, unified account ;^)

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