Nokia Download Manager FAQ

1. What is Nokia Download Manager?

Nokia Download Manager is a download manager application that helps Nokia's portal or website users to download content reliably and safely to their workstations.

2. Why Nokia Download Manager?

There are many good reasons to use Nokia Download Manager. Here are few of them:

1. Download manager automatically recovers from small network problems and continues the download automatically.
2. If download is broken for some reason you can continue the download from broken point and not from the file's beginning.
3. Download Manager includes file integrity functionality that validates downloaded files after succesful download and makes sure every bit was received correctly.
4. Graphical user interface gives you detailed information about download and for example provides estimated download time left information.
5. Download Manager stores detailed download history into user's workstation.
6. System ensures that you will always have automatically the latest Nokia Download Manager version. There is no need to download updated versions of it manually.

3. What is required from browser for Nokia Download Manager to work?

This download manager requires your browser to have Java Standard Edition 2, Runtime Environment v1.4 or later installed. This free application execution environment integrates Java Plug-in into your browser that makes it possible for the browser to execute Java applications.

4. Where can I get Java plug-in?

Java plug-in comes free with free Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment. This application can be freely downloaded from SUN Microsystems website. This website address is http://www.java.com.

When you first time execute Nokia Download Manager it checks whether you have the required Java plug-in and if you don't have that installed it will be automatically installed.

5. What about security issues?

Nokia Download Manager is secured with code signing certificate. This provides users certainty that Nokia Download Manager application was not modified in anyway when it was provided from Nokia portal or website to the end-user. It also proves that this software was actually produced by Nokia.

Nokia Download Manager supports secure downloads (using HTTPS protocol).

6. What are supported operating systems and browsers?

All operating systems that are supported by Java Runtime Environment will support Nokia Download Manager. Partial list of supported operating systems: All Windows OSes, Solaris 7 & 8 & 9, Linuxes and Apple OS X.

All browsers that support Java plug-in are supported. These browsers are in practice all major browser. Partial list of supported browsers is: Internet Explorer 4 & 5 & 6, Netscape 4.5 and newer, Mozilla all versions, Safari browser all versions.

Please note that currently Opera browsers are not supported.

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