There has been a lot of response on Nokia’s announced entrance into the netbook market, which was announced yesterday. Nokia will launch a netbook, called Booklet 3G. Launch date and more details will be announced on Nokia World on September 2.
The Nokia netbook is rumoured to run on Windows 7. We wonder if it will have an app store, and if so, which one? Other players in this field have made the switch from Windows to the Android operating system and are launching own app stores.
Nokia has its own Ovi Store, and the promotion video shows two interesting things:
- It will be possible to purchase music on the device from Nokia’s Music Store
- Ovi services are supported (at least maps, file sharing and mobile phone sync)
 Nokia Ovi Services |
 Nokia Music Store |
See the full video here.
We think there are three options on how Nokia could include an app store on this netbook:
- They won’t. Initially the focus will only be buying music, with no store for apps yet.
- Ovi Store will be supported. The current store is completely focussed on Symbian based mobile phones. Hence it will be difficult for Nokia to start a developer community to build great apps for their Windows based netbooks.
- Eventually, a Microsoft app store will run on it. Within this year, Microsoft will be offering app stores on mobile phones, media players and gaming devices. Analogous, it would make sense to also use app stores on Windows 7 based Tablet PC’s and netbooks.
More details will be announced on September 2, during Nokia World in Stuttgart (Germany).
Vincent Hoogsteder
Tags: netbook, nokia booklet 3g, ovi store, Windows Marketplace
C’mon guys. Analytics company with this kind of analysis??? It’s embarrassing…
“…. developer community to build great apps for their Windows based netbooks.”
WTF did you mean by that? An app for Nokia netbook is any PC application that runs on Windows 7. Ever heard about the smallish developer community writing apps for that???
@Staska
Of course, there is a large developer community that builds apps for Windows. However:
- These developers need to take the effort to publish the application in the store
- These developers may need to adjust the application to work perfectly with Nokia’s netbooks
There is no such thing as Windows apps, as you mean them. They are Windows Mobile apps.
There is no central store for Windows applications (for desktops, laptops and netbooks) -e.g Adobe Photoshop, Microsft Office, etc;
Developers do not need to custumize their applications for Nokia Booklet, because it is a standard PC, running standard Windows PC OS.
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