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Nokia's App Store will launch with 20,000 items
RIM's doing it, Microsoft is doing it. Apparently launching mobile app stores is the thing to do, because now Nokia's doing it too. The cellphone maker is preparing to launch a mobile app store called the Ovi Store later this month. But there's one thing that will set Nokia's app store apart - it will launch with a catalog of 20,000 ote,s. Apple's iPhone App Store had just a few hundred programs when it launched, and Google's Android store had even fewer.But not everything in the Nokia Ovi Store will be an application. The company is also loading it up with media files including short videos.
The Ovi Store will let Nokia cellphone users purchase and download programs directly from their mobile devices. An app store utility will come preloaded on newer phones, while customers with older, but still recent phones will be able to download apps using a mobile web browser.
[via MobileTopSoft]
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Subscribe to commentssupernova_hqMay 9th 2009 11:02PM
Nokia has had private software repositories for their N series (N770, N800, N810) devices for YEARS. Every time some does a report on these "software stores", they don't realise that Nokia has been doing this since before even apple.
The only difference was that everything in the repositories are FREE.
Oh, did I mention that you can add your OWN custom repositories and download you OWN software without so much as an email to Nokia?
I can't wait till the day when all phones are simply small, open, linux devices with built in 3G support and the ability to add your own software and repositories.
giodelgadoMay 11th 2009 2:49PM
They are simplifying the process of getting applications to the general public, apps have been around for years with Symbian devices... I wish everything else was simpler with the OS.