Tag: ovi
MWC 2009: Nokia Launching "Ovi Store" in May, its attempt at capturing your loyalty and money
You’re NOTHING in the tech world without your own, personalised, branded store through which you sell things to children without troublesome “retail” taking a slice of the cash.
That’s the realisation that has dawned within the corporate mind of Nokia, which has today announced its Ovi Store – an application based around “connecting content providers with consumers,” which, we think, means an easier way to flog Rihanna and Beyonce ring tones to the youth demographic…
MWC 2008: Nokia's N78 "multimedia community phone"
Crikey. The multimedia bit seems to refer to the N78’s ability to let you spend money buying music from the Nokia Music Store, with the phone also packing an FM radio for all you MUSIC THIEVES out there.
The N78 also has a rather impressive 3.2megapixel camera with lenses and bits from global Lensmaster Carl Zeiss, plus it does Nokia Maps and lets you share stuff via Nokia’s online youth portal Ovi. And there’s the A-GPS system for managing to find your dad’s house first time, and also advanced features like geo-tagging your photos…
2007 in Review No. 4: Nokia became a services company
Part of our series of festive posts looking back at the key happenings in 2007… Well, that’s not strictly true. Nokia announced plans to become a services company, rather than a handset firm. By which they meant they’d place more focus on mobile content and services, rather than just flogging handsets and letting operators take care of the content side.
Nokia Ovi is shaping up for a fight with Google
Nokia’s multimedia supremo Anssi Vanoki showed off the company’s new Ovi service at Nokia World today, demonstrating how it’ll work on PCs, online and on mobile handsets. My takeaway thought is this: everyone bangs on about Nokia taking on Apple and its iPhone, but with Ovi, Nokia seems to be setting its sights at Google.
