Nokia's Ovi unleashed: stay calm, it's only a brand

Nokia just took the wraps off their Ovi (which means "the door" in Finnish) Internet services brand. The idea is to pull the Nokia Music Store, N-Gage, Nokia Maps, and all future Nokia services into a single suite of service offerings. Over the next 12 months, Nokia announced that it would "integrate new user interface elements, service suites and web communities" into what they promise will be an "open environment." Expect to hear more from Ovi when it launches in Q4.

[Fernando @ Aug 29th 2007 8:06AM]

yeah!

and nokia maps 1.0 is already available for even the classic n95 owners in that site

[teck90 @ Aug 29th 2007 8:40AM]

Sounds like a brand of maxipads or something. Gross.

[Fredster @ Aug 29th 2007 9:37AM]

I would say Ovi means more like "(A) door" than "the door"

[Tis---strange @ Aug 29th 2007 1:25PM]

Finnish has no artikels... so it is well a matter of interpretation if you see ovi as "the door" or "door". Nokia wants well to express "the door" with it, because it is meant to be the connecting point of all nokia products, and not a connection point...

[Ned @ Aug 29th 2007 8:33PM]

Ovi. They named their attempt at being hip and catching Apple in services after ovaries? Great idea.