ESPOO, Finland – Let’s try this again.
The buzz started yesterday with the Ovi Store showing up in folks’ Download! folder on certain operators in Asia (see report on AAS). We knew this would slip out, since so many of you are clever and eager to check out the store.
What was happening was that the Ovi Store was moving to production servers, meaning that the Ovi Store was transitioning everything, testing things out in different countries, and even having (and still having) a ton of folks on hand to follow the wind-up for the global commercial launch. Which, as you now know, is today.
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GLOBAL – Today is one of those monolithic milestones for Nokia and the advancement of mobiles, as Ovi Store has officially gone live. It’s a moment that many believe (including all of us here on Conversations) is set to spark a rapid evolution in the way we all use our mobile devices – exploring the depths of what your device is capable will be far easier with Ovi Store now primed to be the one-stop hub to let you soak up bite-size bits of free and paid-for content and apps.
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ESPOO, Finland – Today the successor to the 6600 slide officially slips into view. Bearing a subtle name change, the new Nokia 6600i slide brings with it a new wardrobe and some upgraded features, the most significant being a performance perk in the photography stakes.
Read on for the first full details of what to expect from the new Nokia 6600i slide and click through to see our first-look photo gallery.
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MONACO, Monte Carlo – Continuing yesterday’s collection of videos from the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit, held last week in Monaco, where James Etheridge got to speak to some interesting industry folks involved in creating the software we all use. Forum Nokia has been increasing its role in software development over the past couple of years and Pekka Pohjakallio talks about what it means to developers, and why publishing software to Ovi Store is a good thing for all involved. He highlights having access to 50 million devices from launch, as being a pretty powerful incentive for developers to get involved.
James also caught up with Benoit Schillings and Thiago Macieira from Qt (pronounced ‘cute’) software about the platform that enables developers to create applications for multiple operating systems, without having to redevelop the software each time. We have the first video with these two today, but we’ll be back Monday with the second as these guys have some interesting stuff to reveal.
Finally, we have David Rivas VP Nokia who looks after software at Nokia. He reveals some interesting stuff, including Nokia’s background in software, why it’s important, what’s happening with Symbian and most interestingly his prediction that Symbian will soon support multiple processors. Enjoy the show(s) after the jump!
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GLOBAL – Head of Nokia Services, Niklas Savander has released some insight into Ovi Store in an interview with Mobile Entertainment website. Speaking to Mobile Entertainment’s Tim Green, the Ovi Store was described as a huge content project “days from launch”. Given today is the first of May, and Ovi Store is due to launch this month, it’s only fitting we see what the top man had to say.
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LAS VEGAS, USA – Last week Nokia was in attendance at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas. Home to over 1,000 exhibitors and covering over 300,000 square feet its one of the biggest annual telecoms shows on the planet. Nokia took this opportunity to highlight a number of key handset, including the N97, E71x and E75. Services such as Comes With Music and the upcoming Ovi Store were also given center stage. Plus, Nokia took this opportunity to showcase it’s latest environmental services. We’ve pulled together the top Nokia videos, featuring all of these products and services. So click through for our full round-up of the best of Nokia from CTIA Wireless 2009.
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SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Last week Conversations editor Charlie Schick was out at Web 2.0 expo 2009 in San Francisco, shooting clips of some of the coolest stuff from the show floor. One of the lesser-seen slivers of software was a smart Associated Press (AP) touchscreen news app, slated to launch in May to coincide with the opening of the Ovi Store, primed for use on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and then the Nokia N97 in June.
We witnessed the tactile Associated Press news app in action, demoed by Kate Butler from the AP. It features a slick interface for engaging with the latest news and photos – you can even caption their images with comments or share pics. Click through to watch a video of it in action on the N97.
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ESPOO, Finland – Let’s try this again.
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