Nokia 6585 Software Comparison

Build-in Ring Tones

I'd call that the LogoManager is superior in this regards. LogoManager hides access to the build-in ring tones unless an advance option is selected. This decision might not have been a bad idea since user defined ring tones can be uploaded into the Gallery where they can even be managed from the phone. Once the "Always show build-in ringtones" has been selected under the advanced tab of the Settings dialog box and MobiMB has been restarted the build-in ring tones can be managed. Uploads and downloads are simply done by dragging them to or from the Ringtones folder. Deletes are done by selecting the ring tone and pressing the delete button.

Oxygen lacks severely. For one it doesn't display all build-in ring tones and thus making management of these ring tones impossible. On top of this it uploads ring tones into the build-in ring tone area instead of the Gallery when uploading them via the "Load file to phone" command. This means that you now have ring tones that you can't manage or delete. Like LogoManager, Oxygen is able to upload ring tones to the Gallery as well.

Nokia PC Suite doesn't offer any access to the build-in ring tones. Due to the fact that you can't mess with it at all, I'd rank it higher than Oxygen.

Again I'd prefere LogoManager. It is very simple to drag and drop files.

The user interface of Oxygen is just way to complicated to use. I haven't been able to figure out how to simply upload one file without having to upload everything (files, address book, calendar, ... really everything). Also the file system is not keept up to date unless you tell it to update.

Nokia PC Suite has two applications Nokia Image Store and Nokia Image Converter. Image Store is used only to download images and videos while Image Store edits and uploads images. However, for purely uploaded and downloading images, tones and other files the Nokia File Manager is the better application to use.

Oxygen has probably the most feature for contact editing and listing. Especially nice is that it displays the quick dial and voice tags. The contact list also allows search and various sorting of the contacts. A few negative things that you have to download and then upload the contacts to the phone, instead of performing these operations on the fly as it is done with the other phone managers.

Contact management with Nokia PC Suite is done through the Nokia Phone Browser. A thing that I noticed was that the image associated to a contact does not show up in Nokia Phone Browser. This is probably due to the fact that you are editing contact files (*.vcf) which gets translated to whatever format the phone is storing the contacts.

LogoManager will shows the contact image but won't let you add, change or delete this image. All other contact details can be updated but the organization in the contact list isn't as clean as it could be.

Surprisingly here is Nokia PC Suite extremely strong with Nokia PC Sync. It allows one to synchronize the calendar and to-do list of the with Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. I am using it with Outlook 2002 and it works great for the calendar. I stopped synchronizing contacts since a leading plus sign (+) is added in front of the phone number for internationalization. Unfortunately the Nokia 6585 doesn't like the plus sign at all and the phone number becomes invalid. Luckily, I don't have the need to synchronize the contacts of Outlook with the phone. All I'm interested in are the Calendar appointments.

If you want to manually update the calendar then you'll be interested in Oxygen. It doesn't provide any synchronization but it is the only software that has a user interface for the calendar. The interface allows you to view, create and edit appointments of the calendar and tasks of the to-do list.

LogoManager doesn't provide any access to the phone calendar.

The "Load File" - "Java Game" command allows for simple game installation with Oxygen. All you do is select the *.jad file in the dialog and installation goes flawless.

LogoManager doesn't allow installation of games with the trial version. The install works by simply dragging the *.jad file into the Games folder.

With the file manager of Nokia PC Suite you can browse, rename, delete the files of the Games folder. However copying games into the Games folder fails for the *.jar files. I get an error that the item is to large to be saved in the phone. The Application Installer returns the error that the file size is to big. I also tried the earlier version of Nokia PC Suite and the unofficial Nokia Games Installer add-on from www.8ung.at/nokiagamesinstaller without much luck. Again I got the message that the file size is to big. To note is that the available space is always unknown for me when I use the Nokia Applicaton Installer or Nokia Game Installer. With that, the Nokia PC Suite is not able to install games.

Nokia PC Suite always runs in the background and grabs the phone connection if it is available. Oxygen requires that you go into Nokia Connection Manager and deselect the connection. Otherwise it won't be able to talk to the phone. LogoManager automatically disconnects the phone from Nokia PC Suite and connects to the phone when the application is started. This is quite nice if you want to use both software. Thumbs up for LogoManager.

Being free, Nokia's PC Suite has the top hand on this one.

Oxygen's pricing model with the number of phone limitations is a little confusing. So I picked the "Family" license since that might be the more appropriate one and the fairer one to use for the comparison. It comes with a full year of free upgrades and normally costs $36.00 but at the time there was a special for $29. A one year renewal costs $17.65.

The LogoManager Pro Suite cost $42.01. Optionally a one year subscription and support can be purchased for $6.67. Upgrades can also be purchased for $9.79 at which time the optional one year subscription and support costs $7.82.

Oxygen really could have the upper hand if it weren't for that stupid download all phone information and then upload all phone information again. I really don't know why they did their software that way but it makes it really hard to use. The most asked question for me was how I just update that one single item without having to write everything. Maybe it's just that I'm to dumb...but a user interface should not be that hard to use. Otherwise Oxygen allows access to special features such as the FM radio settings, profiles, and call register.

LogoManager is well designed and easy to use but it doesn't provide as much access as Oxygen does.

If you plan on syncing the phone's calendar with Microsoft Outlook then you definitely want to install the Nokia PC Suite. It works like a and I find the calendar on the phone quite useful.

Unfortunately I really didn't fall in love with any of the phone manager and thus I haven't been able to convince myself to spend money on any of them.