The Nokia Ovi Store launch back in May didn’t exactly go swimmingly, plagued as it was by crashes. But the app shop for Nokia phones has been growing at a pace, and now the mobile giant is about to have another stab at taking on Apple’s App Store cashcow with an overhaul coming early next year!
According to George Linardos, Nokia’s vice president of product, media, a new version of the Nokia Ovi Store is on the cards for the Spring of next year, and is currently “being built in the background”.
Nokia Ovi Store opens its doors
The new Nokia Ovi Store will focus on improved speed and UI, which is exactly what the company is looking to improve with its phone operating systems next year too, so we’re hopeful we’ll get one nice, new look Nokia by the end of 2010, complete with massive, gorgeous capacitive tablet smarpthones.
Linardos referred to this redesigned, reworked Nokia Ovi Store as version 2.0, but Nokia has since been in touch with Mobile Entertainment, which broke the story, to pull one of its retrospective “We didn’t say that” stunts, and claim it’s actually a “replatforming”.
Semantics aside, Linardos also admitted that the Nokia Ovi Store in its existing form was always meant to be a temporary measure, while Espoo tried to bring all its separate application and widget download services together, a frank admission. We don’t know what the new Nokia Ovi Store will look like, but don’t be surprised if a preview surfaces right around the time of Mobile World Congress in February.
Out TBC | £TBC | Nokia (Via Mobile Entertainment)
