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Nokia Ovi App Store Opens Its Door
jkOnTheRun —
... There are already a lot of apps in the store but it appears the launch hasn’t been very well executed. Techcrunch is reporting the store is having serious problems serving up apps for purchase and that some apps are disappearing from the store willy-nilly. Oops, Nokia needs to make this work well to compete with all the other app stores out there. ...
Nokia Ovi Launches
GEARFUSE —
... period for a woman is actually Nokia’s attempt at an application store. According to TechCrunch and several other blogs, the service has launched but it’s hardly working. Search results yield nothing of value and the categories are all screwed up. Looking for a top ten apps list? No one’s been able to accomplish that yet. It’s not looking good for Nokia with a fucked up launch like this . Let’s hope that by Friday, Nokia has everything it needs to in place. Link
Las 10 mejores aplicaciones para bajar de la Ovi Store
Celularis —
Finalmente lanzaron el press release oficial de la Ovi Store que abrió sus puertas ayer y que demostró tener algunos problemitas (en realidad son bastante serios y algunos ya salieron a decir que era un completo desastre) y una experiencia de navegación que no está gustando demasiado… y eso sin decir que de los 20 mil items que prometieron, la mayoría son ringtones y wallpapers.
En la gacetilla dicen que “está disponible globalmente en 50 millones de dispositivos de 50 ...
Nokia stumbles on Ovi Store launch
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... this may have caused Ovi Store users and encourage you to continue giving us feedback as we develop the service further.
The Ovi Store device client, however, has continued to perform very well and there were no reported issues from users logged on through that entry point.”
We were hesitant to believe that Apple was years ahead of the competition in touchscreen UI and integrated media distribution, but that does seem to be the case here.
[Via: TechCrunch and AllAboutSymbian]
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Ovi Store launch: Did Nokia stumble?
PR News: —
... This just shows that the biggest cell phone maker in the world can also get it wrong. TechCrunch reports that the Nokia Ovi Store is suffering with some server problems and performance issues. The slow homepage is just the start of the problems ...
Nokia’s Ovi Store at Full Throttle
Cellphone9 —
With some criticism on the store launch, all in all the Nokia Ovi store delivers the promise of a central hub for purchasing applications and building a developer community base. What I found more intriguing was the transparency and quickness of reaction from the Nokia Conversations blog that did admit to some server hiccups. See, corporate blogs work!
[photo taken from Nokia Ovi Store screenshot]
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Smartphone OS Smackdown: iPhone OS 3.0 vs. WebOS vs. the World (3)
iPhone News Updated —
... next to iPhone OS’s Safari and other newer entrants, and its e-mail handles plain text only.
Third-party stuff: The Symbian OS has been around for so long that a wealth of useful software supports it, but most of these applications haven’t been updated to take advantage of 5th Edition’s touch-centric approach. Nokia’s on-device software store, Ovi Store, launched in May, but it’s not yet available in the United States, and reviews have been lackluster. Symbian software remains available from other app ...
Apple App Store vs. Nokia Ovi Store - A Quick And Dirty Comparison
CrunchGear —
... , it was clear that - despite its less than stellar launch - it would be a mistake to simply dismiss the Finnish mobile juggernaut’s efforts as meaningless. The company may be struggling to stay relevant on the software and services side, but with a reach like Nokia’s on the handset distribution level I think it goes without saying that a lot of eyes are firmly fixed on Nokia’s initiatives in the field.
