Nokia Ovi Store Launches

Kensai7 writes "The much-awaited Nokia Ovi Store opened for business yesterday. By following a business model similar to that of successful rival Apple for the iPhone, Nokia is trying to provide developers and customers a vast portfolio of Symbian OS applications, games, widgets, etc. TechCrunch took a look at some of the more interesting applications available at the start, but was disappointed by the launch itself. The Ovi Store team acknowledged some difficulties due to high levels of traffic."

Comments

Re:Ovi?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ovi is Finnish, it means "door".

Nokia vs Apple

[mrops]

Before I criticize the iPhone, let me say, it is an excellent web browsing device and adequate for phone calls.

Now the criticism.

As a communication device, iPhone really sucks.

Nokia
Phone calls: check
Video calls: check
Share pictures online: check
Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik): check
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: check/check/check
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/check
Load videos to youtube: check
Many chat applications: check
Webbrowsing: check

iPhone
Phone calls: check
Video calls: not supported
Share pictures online: not supported
Share live video feeds to website right from phone: not supported
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: not supported/not supported/not supported
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/not supported
Load videos to youtube: not supported
Many chat applications: only on jail broken iPhones
Webbrowsing: check

Re:Nokia vs Apple

[piledriversamson]

Does Apple just do a better job marketing and thus enjoys a greater market share?

Apple doesn't hold a greater marketshare. Symbian OS holds almost 50% of the smartphone OS market while Apple's OS barely holds 10%. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about.

ARGH, Epic. Fail.

[SpooForBrains]

I have a Nokia E71, so I thought I'd give this a go.

Here's the process I went through.

1. Visit the Ovi store
2. Register, giving my number
3. Wait for SMS to arrive, click on embedded link, which opens in the phone's web browser to confirm registration.
4. Find an app I like the look of on Ovi store on my PC (Nokia Magnifyer, silly, small, free. Ideal first test)
5. Click on Nokia magnifyer
6. Click on Send to phone, confirm phone number, wait for SMS to arrive
7. Open SMS, click on embedded link
8. Wait for web browser to load the page
9. Page shows overview of the app, with a "Download" button
10. Enter user information to log in (and the page is FUGLY)
11. Now logged in, same overview page is displayed. Click on the "Download" button AGAIN.
12. Confirm download.
13. Here begins the standard application installation procedure, which involves something in the region of ten separate button presses.
14. Browse to "Installation" folder, and launch Nokia Magnifyer.

Jesus H Christ, they think this is going to compete with the App store?