Nokia's Ovi Store Opens for Business

Nokia has followed through on its plans to open its Ovi Store, a on-device software and services marketplace in the same vein as the iTunes App Store. This offers applications, games, videos, widgets, podcasts, and location-based applications.

This service is now available globally to an estimated 50 million device owners on dozens of Nokia models. Customers can visit store.ovi.com through their mobile's web browser to immediately begin downloading.

AT&T plans to make Ovi Store available to its customers in the United States later this year.

"Ovi Store is open for business and we've stocked the shelves with both local and global content for a broad range of Nokia devices," said Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President, Nokia Services. "Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smartphone owners alike."

An On-Device Client, Too
In some countries, customers can install the Ovi Store mobile application by selecting the Ovi Store icon in the Download! folder on their device. This client is available in English, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

It supports operator billing in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom, while credit card billing is available through the mobile application and the mobile website.

Additional countries, languages, devices and features will be added throughout the year.

Source: Nokia