A new version of Nokia’s Ovi Suite (2.1.0.87) is out and promises to bring many new features and bug fixes. When I upgraded the update was around 61mb and downloaded fairly quick. If you have the update available then I suggest that you upgrade as the new features are quite handy to have at your disposal.

First up on the new features is Ovi.com contact sync. With this all your contacts will be uploaded to Ovi.com for safe keeping – Great ey?

Secondly, it is now very easy to upload and share your videos to Ovi.com straight from the Ovi suite which can of course be handy for showing off those all important holiday videos down the beach (using the metal detector application ).

It also adds new updates for device applications such as the, now free, Ovi maps software. Just connect your phone and the app will update, at least that’s my understanding.

Now onto another new feature that I didn’t see coming; Contact syncing with Mozilla Thunderbird. Now I’m not one for having a contact book on my PC but there are many people out in the wild that do just this and for you guys that keep your contacts in Thunderbird then this is obviously a dream come true. Never again will you be without those phone numbers and email addresses!

There have been many complaints about how the Ovi Suite doesn’t really like to play with Windows 7, I have had no problems at all but I know that many people do. Well for you guys this update is crucial! The change log states that this update ensures compatibility with Windows 7. Yay! Now all you people that couldn’t update your N97 to the latest fw (v21) due to this problem should get right on it.

And as ever, performance upgrades. Every update seems to promise improvements to performance which is great and Nokia say that “these improvements are something we continue working on.” Which is also great but I know there are many users out there screaming for N900 support in the Ovi Suite and I believe that this functionality has still not been added.

If you don’t already have the Ovi Suite installed then head over to http://www.ovi.com/suite and get it, NOW! Otherwise just pop over to the Software updates option on the Tools menu to see if the update is available for you.