Nokia will not be known as simply a handset manufacturer after it has introduced Ovi, the Nokia branded doorway to online content including music, games and maps downloads. Ovi, incidentally, means “door” in Finnish. Ovi is way bigger than iTunes rival we have been expecting from Nokia. Looking back, we wonder how we can seriously think that the biggest cell phone manufacturer in the world is only planning to play catch up to iTunes. Under Ovi is the N-Gage business, the Nokia Music Store and Nokia Maps. Presumably, more businesses would be added to Ovi.
So, is Nokia’s Ovi going to get a warm reception from wireless providers around the world, many of which have their own content services? One things is almost certain, Nokia users will eat it up.
[via msnbc]
August 31st, 2007 at 9:57 am
[...] is spreading its wings from manufacturing hardware to providing online content.read more | digg [...]
October 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
[...] The srvice is set to be available towards the end of 2008. Compared another iTunes rival via Nokia, the Universal, Sony, Warner [...]
August 4th, 2008 at 3:55 am
[...] Microsoft and Nokia is working on giving Nokia phones access to the Zune Marketplace. There is not going to be a Nokia-Zunephone, which would’ve already brought the tech-blogging world into a mad frenzy (I’m several hours late with the news) but a more sober content delivery integration. It’s interesting to note that Nokia phones support Real Player and not Windows Mobile. So expect WMP on Nokia phones in the future. Hm, but I wonder what happens to OVI? [...]