Buzzin Mobiles

As the worlds leading manufacturer of mobile devices and recognised pioneer in mobile telecommunications, Nokia like many others, have in recent times been playing catch up with the Apple iPhone for a slice of the 3G Smartphone market.

Having established themselves as market leaders with the invention of the year in 2007, Apple have invested much time and energy since in establishing their application store, where smartphone users can personalise their devices with free or paid apps.

With the latest devices from Nokia, particularly the N97 and its smaller N97 Mini version, the company have started to make inroads into the market that has been dominated by the iPhone.

The online Nokia app store is known as the Ovi store and offers free and paid apps to Nokia smart and feature phone users. The site has recently had a facelift making it more accessible and user friendly than its previous incarnation.

For users familiar with the Apple stores, the Nokia Ovi version currently looks a bit lean on content, but it is growing on a daily basis as more handset users choose the Nokia devices over Apple.

It is unfair to make a real comparison of the two app stores as Apple have long since held the advantage of operating their stores from back in the days of the iPod with iTunes, as well as having led the smartphone market with the introduction of the iPhone.

Content for the Ovi store continues to grow daily, but there are some massive opportunities for developers to make a name for themselves and Nokia welcome anyone wishing to distribute their product through Ovi to contact the publishers.

Some of the Ovi Store top apps include many free sports offering’s like football news and results service to the inevitable World Cup information provider, but one I missed last week was the T20 Cricket World Cup app which would have provided many happy moments with England winning the trophy!

Just browsing the site today, here are a couple of interesting new items, the WTF Net Slang Dictionary might be worth looking at, but particularly like the NATS Ash Cloud – Airspace updater, very relevant.

We will be looking at the Ovi store and its offerings in future posts, so please let us know your personal favourite apps games or audio/videos in the store.