Nokia Link

Nokia N9 is a capable phone and can do many tasks that were previously performed with a computer. Downloading maps and Wi-Fi sharing can be done from the Nokia N9 directly, and contacts can be synced from phone to phone. Nokia N9 also enables multiple web services for calendar syncing. Nokia Link is leading the change for easy to use, lightweight PC and Mac apps. It offers two-way media copying, as well as creating backups and restoring.

You can set up your Nokia N9 to provide a local Wi-Fi Hotspot. This gives internet access through your phone for not only one but multiple PCs.

To set up Wi-Fi Hotspot in your N9, start the Wi-Fi Hotspot application, define the Wi-Fi settings (e.g. Network name, Encryption mode) and select Start. Connect then your PC to the Wi-Fi network provided by the hotspot.

Nokia Link doesn't support contacts and calendar sync, but Nokia N9 offers you many other ways to do such syncing. N9 has device to device sync support for bringing contacts from your old device to N9 and for some devices also calendar can be synced. N9 supports Mail for Exchange, GMAIL^TM or any POP/ IMAP capable mail servers. With Mail for Exchange not only the email is synced, but you can also sync contacts and calendar for services like Outlook, Windows Live^TM and GMAIL^TM.

If you have previously synced your contacts e.g. from your old phone to Nokia online service, you can sync the contacts back to your Nokia N9 by using the Nokia account sync. Calendar entries from your PC Outlook can be synchronised via a remote calendar service, e.g. via Windows Live^TM and GMAIL^TM (see separate FAQs for more details).

Do the following:

1. Connect your phone to the computer with a compatible USB cable.
2. Click the round icon at the bottom-right side of the Nokia Link window, and select Back up and Restore from the menu.
3. Choose whether you want to have a weekly automatic backup created out of your phone's content. An automatic backup takes only a few minutes to run.
4. When you're ready to start, click New backup.
5. Wait until the backup is finished. Note that you can't cancel the back up once it has started.

Backing up saves your calendar, contacts, messages, applications, call history, personal settings, and account information. Media files (music, photos, videos) are left untouched.

Nokia Link is a lightweight computer app with which you can move your music, photos, and videos easily between your Nokia N9 phone and a Windows or Mac computer.
You can also copy mobile content to your favourite applications on the computer, like Windows Media Player and iTunes.
And what is more, with Nokia Link you can quickly create a backup of your Nokia N9’s content, and later restore it if need be.

Supported operating systems: Windows 7 32-bit & 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OSX Lion.

To download and install Nokia Link, go to the support page of Nokia N9.

No, Nokia Link is totally different and is an independent application. Also, currently Nokia Link only works with Nokia N9. If you have a different phone, you can continue using Nokia Suite.

Yes. You can use both applications on your computer at the same time. Use Nokia Link with Nokia N9, and Nokia Suite with other Nokia phones.

Please close Nokia Suite before connecting N9 with Nokia Link.

Nokia Link supports only USB connections. It’s much faster to copy files using a USB cable, and Nokia Link is designed to do just that – to move your media files quickly and easily between your phone and computer.

The tracks that won’t play are most likely protected by Digital Rights Management. Nokia Link copies DRM-protected tracks from your computer to the phone, but the licences needed to play them aren’t copied along with them.

Yes, you can.  See Deleting content from your phone in Nokia Link help for detailed info on how to get rid of the phone content you no longer need. Please make sure you have the latest version of Nokia Link installed.