Nokia launching a Symbian app store at MWC?
By Ross Miller 
posted Feb 7th 2009 11:31PM
posted Feb 7th 2009 11:31PM
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first?
to fail.
I was under the impression Nokia already had one...
http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/
I hope every single one of these crappy cellular makers doing their best to copy every single one of Apple's moves GOES BANKRUPT.
No Bailouts for you !
Hoooooo noooooo!
Hey dude, do you have a job? you are always here telling us how much Apple products are better than anything else... or is it that your job??
he gets $.65 for every review.
Flashpoint is supposedly an A.P. at a school, and magically has a Mercedes Benz S550, and if his boss finds out about what he spends time at school doing on Engadget, he will likely be let go.
I hope for your sake that you are a shill. It would be incredibly pointless and stupid to make such naive statements unless you are actually employed to do so.
Flashpoint, put down the crack dude. If we would get rid of Apple, you wouldn't survive that!
I completely agree with Kiwi's & Renegade Fanboy's comment It would be great if the could put if altogether.
I am quite stuck with the idea that N97, Storm or Pre will win this year. Although I love my Innov8 and its features it just doesn't have same support as Nokia.
Just a quick reminder to all the point of Mosh was for it to be a Alpha/Beta test ground it was not supposed to work like an app store or supposed to let 3rd party devs put there stuff up on site for testers.
In regards to Apple Fanboy's: It is great what Apple has done with iphone but we should not stop innovation. I don't want to be stuck with 2mp camera or no copy/paste lets keep all the mobile companies competitive.
Youg gotta love social service jobs.
Even if my Principal found out, he could only give me a warning...but then again, since this isn't a BANNED WEBSITE like Myspace, social networking sites or porn, he can't really do anything about it.
I hope every single one of these crappy trolls doing their best to kiss Apple's ass GOES BANKRUPT.
No Internets for you!
You mean besides "Download!" and "MOSH"? Hopefully 3rd time's a charm...
I know this is irrelevant to the post, but i just feel like saying it:
PLEASE NOKIA BRING S60 TO A US CARRIER PLEASE!!!!
Or Samsung bring the Acme to AT&T
The 6650 would like to have a word with you.
Guess you weren't in the U.S. 5 years ago when the 6620 became widely available on Cingular.
Or the N75 last year... I believe some of the lesser Nokias that AT&T has also run Symbian, but they are probably too crippled to be useful.
The US carriers' inverted logic amuses me. Here the service providers try to get phones from manufacturers in order to better serve their customers. But in the US the manufacturers are supposed to beg service providers if they would be kind enough to subsidize their phones.
I'm not surprised Nokia isn't willing to participate in these mind games.
wow, maybe they should launch a relevant OS first, yawn
the e71 is sweet as hell, but android on it would be icing on the cupcake
shaddup.
By 'relevant' do you mean 'on over 60% of the world's smartphones'?
Just askin'.
So true. I love my E71 but s60 bums me out. I'd love to have android on it.
Oh crap, it's the start of Anroid fanboi's
Nokia, small request - keep it real, please? No more mucking about like MOSH and Download. Thanks.
I could care less what Nokia brings out. They are just trolling out hardware faster than anyone can buy it. Then again, that wasteful ass business model sums up most of the cell phone market. Apple has had 2 iphones in 2 years. How many iphone rip offs have dropped since then?
I personally can't count that high.
great news from nokia. they sell the largest number of phones out there.
lmao @ mosh. i haven't used that in years.
Who the hell wanna bye apps(or music or movies or games or programs or operating systems or hardware :)) The hardware is a big enough expense
I think one of the major challenge for developers of other mobile phone platforms is the variety of their mobile products... For iPhone/iPod touch developers, they can easily release one version of application that fit to all devices. However, Nokia, or other mobile phone companies, they have so many different devices, without a standard feature set... Even a screen resolution different would require a new UI design specific for that mobile phone... further more, GPS, touchscreen, OS version (assume that their OS is non-upgradeable like the iPhone) all that would make a difficulties for small developers to port their software on different phones. I am not a developers, but I think if they want to success their own "App Store", they need to first streamline their product lines...
FINALLY!!!!
I hate to do this, but I'm failing... does anyone remember that thing from a couple of months ago where someone developed a projection system (I think it was focused sound) that made it possible to interact with a digital object in reality? Thanks and sorry.
Not at all, but you did remind me of this:
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=392
This will actually be Nokia's 5th attempt at an App store...
1) Download!; http://www.download.nokia.com/
2) Mosh; http://mosh.nokia.com/
3) Nokia Software Market; http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/
4) N-Gage; http://www.n-gage.com/ (games only)
Nokia needs to merge all these sites into just one, with an easy to navigate interface, and it should all be accessable from with the Ovi portal using the same login.
Your reply is full of win. That's exactly what Nokia need to do along with seamless Ovi integration.
am i the only person who can't get ovi to really work ?
Maybe it's t-mobile screwin me over with it. hmm.
and you actually forgot nokia beta labs also...
They will merge all this sites, except Ngage :)
As Ross said in the post: the only news would be if Nokia wouldn't release an Ovi Store.
The combination of Download! (which is available for years now), the N-Gage game store system (available for more than a year) and MOSH (which has the best mobile+online UI) is the way to go.
Some details for the commenters above:
- Download! is on at least a 100 million devices, but missing 2 things: open registration from developers and a simpe purchase mechanism
- N-Gage game store system is exactly what Apple did later with the App Store, but only contains games on N-Gage enabled mobiles - as an advantage it has trials for all games (I'm hoping that Nokia brings that to apps also)
- MOSH is the best mobile+web catalog/download client, but it does not have a purchase mechanism. It's only problem is that users can upload their stuff, which led to a lot of pirated stuff on it. So Nokia was forced to abandon it by content companies (developers, music and film companies).
My take on what a Nokia "Update" application should contain, from 2008 (not just apps):
http://www.renegadefanboy.com/2008/10/nokia-up-gateway-to-all-updates-for-your-phone/
Yeh it's most likely to be Apps on Ovi, hopefully they'll use the Download framework that's available on every S60 smartphone and get it working nicely.
What's wrong with getting apps for nokia phones directly from the internet. ( I am pretty sure they gonna charge ridiculous high prices, even for most simple apps. ( they do it right now for themes 14,00 EUR ).
Thats gr8 news from Nokia :)
It should be for ALL Symbian phones, not just Nokias.
This would be ok if symbian s60 didnt go the way of OSX. I refuse to buy a device that can only install apps via the approved website. If they were smart, and allowed users to still download apps they find through google, then this wouldnt be so bad.
Why do you assume that they would do that? Just because they are adding an app store option doesn't mean they're going to take anything away. There's tons of phones with app stores now, and not a single one of them has ever removed the ability to install apps from elsewhere.
I know their great market share and all -- just like I do that of Windows -- but Nokia is sooooo yesterday.
They seem to have lost their way..... too bad.