Remember the Ovi Prime Place trademark listing Nokia nabbed back in October? Well it’s now revealed what it will be attaching to that name: free business listings on Ovi Maps. It’s like Yellow Pages 2.0.
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You’d be forgiven for thinking Nokia’s Ovi Files service is the sole preserve of those packing one of the Finnish phone firm’s products, but you’d be wrong. We’ve discovered it works just as well with the Big N’s arch nemesis: the iPhone.
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One of our very favourite music apps, Shazam, has just landed on Nokia’s brand new Ovi Store. Shazam is a music discovery tool that enables you to hold your phone out whenever you hear a tune you want to identify, using that snippet to work out what it is from its 8 million track database.It’ll probably have a tough time with John Cage’s 4’33” though.
Nokia has announced that its brand new N Series flagship smartphone, the N97, is going to hit the UK on 19 June. The touchscreen, QWERTY-sporting, S60 5th edition N97 handset will set you back £499. You can start laying out your sleeping bags outside the Regent Street Nokia Store whenever you feel like it.
Ovi Store, Nokia’s app and entertainment download store, rolled out last week to mixed reactions. Nokia owners worldwide rushed on to store.ovi.com to check out the wares on the Finnish phone company’s virtual counter, causing serious server problems which Nokia later apologised for.
Now that the initial stampede has slowed, we’ve had a chance to get to grips with Ovi Store nice and proper, and we reckon that even though it’s early days yet, it’s got the potential to take on the might of Apple’s iPhone App Store and even tempt some away and make the jump to Symbian. Read on to find out why.