Same here - I got an SMS from "Nokia" (contact with no number, and not listed in contacts) saying registration failed.

I was already joined Ovi (bought a couple of games), but I still would have said "No thanks" on the boot-time "you agree whether you agree or not" screen, if the option had been there. After all, even though I joined to Ovi before, I'd never heard of something called "MyNokia" before and want no part of it.

This device routinely uses internet data access - and moreover, it just used it to fetch the firmware update, and Ovi/MyNokia can only be used with data access.

So the explanation which rings most true for the use of SMS rather than IP data for registration that I've heard so far is that they're using it to gather user *mobile phone* registration activity and IMEI/phone numbers, and mobile registration takeup with operator cross sections, for market research.

If true, that would fly in the face of their explanation that it has anything to do with the device not being a phone.

It even seems to be some kind of premium rate SMS, because some people have said they've been charged for it despite having a mobile plan which includes normal SMSs.

I wonder if causing the device to send SMS, secretly with no record of it sent, to inform the handset manufacturer (not the mobile operator) of user's IMEI, phone number, and whether they have a SIM and mobile account in order to get data that is *not normally available to them even when users voluntarily register online and even when users use Ovi/MyNokia services* - well, does that sound like it should even be legal to gather that kind of user-identifiable profiling data when it is unnecessary for the use of the service?