Nokia has released a beta version of Nokia PC Suite 7.0 Beta RC4 for private testing featuring the all new Nokia Communication Centre.

Key features of Nokia PC Suite 7.0 Beta include:

+ Separate Contacts and Messages applications are replaced with Nokia Communication Centre which allows you to do the following things:

- Create and send messages easily
- Receive, view, forward, and reply to messages as they arrive
- Compose multimedia messages effortlessly with easy access to the images on both PC and device
- Manage messages, and sort and group them to quickly find what you are looking for
- Display all your messages in a timeline
- Manage all the contacts stored on your device
- Add new contacts with ease
- Create contact cards complete with thumbnail images

+ When the user selects a phone in the main window of Nokia PC Suite, this selection applies to all subsequently opened applications
+ The phone calendar can be edited in the main window of PC Suite
+ It is now possible to create new or forward text messages in PC Suite main window.
+ PC Suite displays a notification of received text messages and incoming calls from the Windows notification area (Limited phone support)
+ Status bars help keep track of the phone battery level and memory details (Limited phone support)
+ PC Suite ensures that backed up contents will not be lost: if there is not enough room to restore a full backup file to a Nokia phone, the user can access the overspill content on the PC
+ For phones with multiple drives, PC Suite creates separate backup files from the phone memory and from the mass memory
+ Nokia Multimedia Player is no longer included in PC Suite
+ Nokia Video Manager is now integrated into PC Suite
+ Bookmarks can now be synchronized with Mozilla Firefox 3
+ Nokia Application Installer now installs applications to external memory by default

Click here to download Nokia PC Suite 7.0 Beta Release 4 for Windows XP and Vista.