Mac & Nokia Syncing Over-the-Air vs Bluetooth

Over the last 5 years, I've owned a number of high-end Nokia phones and Mac laptops. The principle source of my anguish has been keeping my Nokia's contacts in Full-sync with my Mac's Address Book ;-)
 I think I ended up buying 3-4 different iSync Bluetooth plugins for different Nokia phones over the years to accomplish this goal. I've been asking myself can't I use the Internet to sync my Nokia contacts with my Mac's Address Book? 
 That way I'd possibly have another implicit copy of my vital personal contacts info in a protected Internet server in case I need to restore my contacts?
  Am I asking for something that all PC users (not Mac users) get to enjoy? Is there any Mac-based modern server-oriented solution out there that circumvents all the issues that come with Bluetooth pairing and changing iSync plugins??
   I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, opinions in this Mac & Nokia area. 

zitseng wrote:
teemukankaanpaa wrote:
Hi,
We're currently working on Nokia Ovi Suite for Mac. Too early to say anything about the release date, sorry.
Cheers,
Teemu
A Nokia Ovi Suite for Mac sounds great. I hope, however, it fits in and reuses things that are already in the Mac. For example, I love the currently arrangement of an iSync plugin to sync to the Mac's AddressBook and iCal, and NMT to sync to iPhotos, iTunes, etc. It would be better to sync directly from iTunes like how it works with an iPod Touch or iPhone, but I suppose Apple doesn't want 3rd party hardware to enjoy this level of seamless integration. Perhaps it would be nice to have NMT integrated as a System Preferences pane.
My point is, don't recreate things that already work beautifully on the Mac.
Btw, NMT is broken on Snow Leopard. Any information on when this will be fixed, or if this is being looked at? 
If Apple is not going to all Palm to have direct access to the iTunes database, you can be 100% sure that Nokia will not get access. Apple is protecting their territory I guess. There is nothing wrong with the way NMT works except that it does not work well. In my opinion as a .v1 user, it has never worked really well. It seemed that NMT was more of a hobby than a serious attempt to create functional software.  
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