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New Nokia Ovi Store Coming This Thursday?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Updated: No new Ovi Store yet, but free turn-by-turn navigation with Ovi Maps.

Nokia is holding a high-profile press event this Thursday in London. Nokia said the announcement relates to Ovi and there is a lot of noise that they will release the new Nokia Ovi Store. Last December, Nokia’s George Linardos (VP Product & Media) already said Nokia would be launching a complete rehaul of the Ovi Store within months.

Nokia is definitely putting a lot of attention to the press event. So will we see the brand new Ovi Store? Count down with Nokia:

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Maemo Apps Coming To Nokia Ovi Store

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Recently, Nokia launched the N900 phone, the first model running on Maemo, which is a Linux based operating system. Nokia plans to launch more phones with Maemo and right now the first applications are available in Maemo Select:

maemo_select

Maemo Select is a web based store that will combine Maemo applications from both the Ovi Store and the Maemo Community. Right now, 47 free applications are available, with wallpapers and themes coming soon.

Maemo applications will also become available in the Nokia Ovi Store. The device client for downloading and purchasing apps is also coming soon. Including Maemo, the Ovi Store would support four different platforms: Java, Symbian, Widgets and Maemo.

It is not clear why Nokia would distribute apps for Maemo in both Maemo Select and the Ovi Store. It could be that Maemo Select is an intermediary solution and that it will be replaced by the Ovi Store.

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Nokia Maemo and the Ovi Store

Friday, August 28th, 2009

With Nokia World around the corner (September 2 in Germany), a lot of news has come out in the last days. This week Nokia announced the launch of a netbook and now also presented their first mobile phone based on the Maemo platform. Nokia already offers an internet tablet based on Maemo, which is an Linux based operating system.

It is very interesting how all these new developments will influence Nokia’s app store strategy. Nokia now has its Ovi Store with content for Symbian phones, a netbook that is likely to run Windows and a new phone with the Linux based Maemo as operating system instead of Nokia’s long used Symbian.

The first signs on how this all affects Nokia’s app store offering are starting to appear. The first Nokia phone with Maemo will have something called Maemo Select, described as:

the place to discover the most popular downloads from the Maemo community and Ovi Store. Choose your favourite applications, themes, and wallpapers to personalise your Maemo device.

Maemo already has a community of developers that build and offer applications to consumers. On maemo.org close to 500 applications are available for the current Maemo platform. Looking at the Maemo Select description, Nokia will be offering this content combined with content from the Ovi Store on the new N900 phone.

It is unclear yet if, and exactly how, Maemo applications will be supported in the Ovi Store. Expect more news on this September 2nd.

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Nokia & Android, the story continues

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Yesterday, we wrote about the rumors that Nokia would launch an Android phone later this year, which Nokia denied. As expected, that wasn’t the last we heard from this:

Nokia is instead embracing something called Qt, a software toolbox for developers, which lets those developers port their applications to any of the major operating systems. At the moment, Nokia has released Qt so developers can use it while working on Linux, Max OS X, Windows, Windows CE, Embedded Linux and S60.

And Nokia should make Qt compatible with Android in the near future, we’re told.

So while it may be true that Nokia is not moving to build a device directly on Android, the end effect is that Nokia is going make it much easier for developers to build on the Android platform. That’s because Qt allows developers to work in any direction: They will be able to build on top of Qt, and then port to the Symbian platform, to the Android platform, or even the iPhone, for example. (via Venturebeat)

So in, short this means developers will be able to use Nokia’s Qt to build one application and port that to both Symbian and Android. This does not mean that Android apps will run on Nokia phones. It does however mean that Nokia is doing efforts to make it easier for developers to support multiple platforms. Let’s see where this will be going and if Nokia will be providing more details.

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Nokia denies plans phone running Google’s Android

Monday, July 6th, 2009

There have been a lot of rumors the last days about Nokia releasing phones with Android. This would be a very bold move and raises some interesting questions; didn’t Nokia just buy Symbian and made it open? Android Market on Nokia phones? How about the Ovi Store? Etcetera…

Reuters just published an article where Nokia denies any plans to join Android:

TALLINN, July 6 (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Monday it was not working on introducing a phone running on Google’s (GOOG.O) Android operating system.

British daily The Guardian said on Monday the Finnish mobile phone maker was understood by industry insiders to be developing a smartphone that runs on Google’s Android software, to be introduced in September.

“Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever,” said a Nokia spokesman.

Google’s Android is a rival to Nokia’s Symbian software.

“Everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices.”

So is this the last we hear about Nokia & Android? Probably not, and we will keep you posted as more news comes out.

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Nokia Ovi Store: content after one month

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The Nokia Ovi Store is now live for one month. In this month, more content was added to the store, more countries got access and the store now offers operator billing for 27 operators.

So what content is available now? A comparison of what was there at launch and what is available today in Ovi Store:

Content in Ovi Store

Content in Ovi Store

In one month, the available content grew with 260%. The percentage paid content decreased a little, but is still very high at 88%, compared to the other major stores. For applications the paid percentage is the lowest, 66%. Not surprisingly, the popular ringtones and wallpapers are almost all charged for (99%).

Getting your application or game in the Ovi Store requires Java or Symbian signing, which is quite an extra effort. Nevertheless, the available content is growing very fast, indicating that many developers are taking steps to get their app in Ovi Store.

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Nokia extending Ovi Store reach

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Nokia N97 with Ovi Store client

Nokia N97 with Ovi Store client

Last week, Nokia launched its Ovi Store. There are over 1,200 content items in there, of which 90% are paid.

Nokia will be extending the reach of the store very soon. The first phone with the Ovi Store pre-installed, the N97, is going to market in 75 countries this June.

The pre-installed Ovi Store on the N97 will offer the best experience so far for Nokia users. Right now, Nokia users still have to download the store to their phones first from http://store.ovi.com. There is also a browser based version, however, it does not offer the same experience as the full Ovi Store client.

More popular applications are also finding their way to the Ovi Store. Facebook just launched its application in the store, which is very popular in the Apple App Store and on Getjar. It will be interesting to see whether Facebook will be just as popular in Ovi.

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Nokia Ovi store is launching

Monday, May 25th, 2009

It has been buzzing around for weeks now, but the Nokia Ovi store launch has begun. It is now available in Australia, Ireland and Singapore. Nokia is soft launching the Store; a limited amount of Nokia users can get it via the Download! client, which will be replaced by Ovi Store.

Expect an official full launch soon!

If you see the Nokia Ovi Store appear, please let us know in the comments.

via Allaboutsymbian.com

via Allaboutsymbian.com

Update: Ovi Store is live.
Check it out on your PC or Nokia phone on http://store.ovi.com/

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