Nokia Ovi Store service will learn your habits and tastes - provides social location
Written by Glenn Letham (@gletham)
Monday, 16 February 2009
Indeed, much of the hoopla from Nokia today at WMC
surrounds their news about the Ovi Application Store - many news
outlets are reporting this as new but many of us know that Ovi has
indeed been around for a long time already and we’ve been using it
regularly… Nokia is just now officially rolling it out and boasting
some very cool, new functionality.
Ovi store will not simply be about applications, rather, the store
will be intelligent, making suggestions to users based on their
preferences, habits, and perhaps most important, base on their location
- think social location! Ovi store will alter inventory presented to
users based on thee user’s current location when accessing the store.
Ovi store will support S40 and S60 devices and is promised to be just
one click away. the first official device to ship with Ovi Store will
be the much anticipated Nokia N97 smartphone, expected to roll out this
May. Think of Ovi store as bringing together Nokia Mosh, Ovi, and
widgets in one place!
Mobile application/content developers are encouraged to sign up via
publish.ovi.com in order to prepare for having apps made available via
Ovi Store. Nokia is promising a 70% revenue share to developers (an
industry standard rate). See more HERE
Developers are encouraged to register at publish.ovi.com
Ovi Store seen on Nokia N97 - coming in May
Highlights from the official Ovi Store news conference:
not just about applications
social location is a key component
a "smart" store
supports S40 and S60 devices
rolling out in May, 2009
N97 to be first device shipping with Ovi Store
putting developers and companies first
personal, immediate, relevance!
the service will learn your habits and tastes
one-click access
free and premium content
one place for content discovery and content publishing
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