Polar Mobile to bring over 300 Nokia apps for Symbian, MeeGo-Harmattan and Windows Phone
OK we’ve had a few of you tip this one in today (actually yesterday). Due to all the Anna-Belle activity, we couldn’t get around to publishing this.
Anyway.
Nokia are working with Polar Mobile to bring over 300 apps to Nokia handsets.
These apps will be for Symbian, MeeGo-Harmattan (N9) and future Nokia Windows Phones.
The first batch of 50 will appear next month and will be for Symbian, appearing globally through Ovi Store.
Using Qt as the basis for its Platform on Nokia smartphones, Polar Mobile can deliver rich user experiences for their customers. To date, Polar Mobile has launched over 1,200 mobile apps across other major smartphone devices for more than 300 media brands in 10 countries. Now, in partnership with Nokia, Polar Mobile can extend support for Nokia smartphones reaching consumers in 190 markets
Sources: polarmobile / thenokiablog / wpcentral /mobilesyrup
Anyone know where we can find the catalogue for Apps from Polar Mobile?
Category: Maemo, MeeGo, Nokia, Symbian, Windows Phone
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I hope they will make something cool and useful
Wha type/quality of apps?? hopefully not some crappy fart button sort.
looking at their website it looks like they only provide the framework/uis the engine if you will for how apps run
and if you look at the list of where there no-how was used they’re involved in many major apps
but i dont see how they’ll be providing 300apps… unless it means they’re working in conjunction with developers to polish apps?
ah i think i get it a bit more they make apps or help make apps for major brands and that’s what they plan on doing for nokia
“Nokia Teams Up With Polar to Launch Over 300 Mobile Apps >>>>FOR Major Media Brands Globally<<<<"
and when you look at their “customers” it would seem they help make Sports/News/Fashion apps
http://www.polarmobile.com/partners/customers/
which basically means it’s not anything super useful, just apps related to a direct company/sponser maybe a couple good news apps will come out of it, but I wont expect much.
News, fashion and sports applications, so no content that you can’t already access with the browser.
Useless apps if you ask me.
As far as I recall they make games. I’m not sure what else they do. It’s probably more important for the N9 than it is for Windows Phone, but what it’s also important for is other developers to see someone doing it and think it may be worth doing themselves.
I think this app push is to get Nokia ready for MWC 2012. According to PC World, it is coordinated to help when Nokia’s first Windows phones start to come out, but obviously includes Symbian and MeeGo since QT will be used.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/238301/nokia_signs_deal_to_get_more_apps_for_windows_phone_symbian.html
Hopefully this will help bring OFFICIAL apps from various sources to Symbian and Nokia in general.
I’d like to see the beta labs feature brought into wp7..
fuck off and its Qt so No
Wow Deep Space bar. they have pills for Tourette’s. I think you certainly need it.
Does this imply that QT will be used to create WP7 apps?
No chance matey!!
hmmmmmm is all this “sudden” attention to symbian and meego just there because they are rushing to finish all their existing projects for them before they focus completely on WP7???
if this is true we cant know that they will be supporting symbian until 2016. Their meaning of supporting might be to just have Nokia Care answer questions. No products launched just solve problems on the nokia support website or something.
The main question we should ask Nokia is if there is anything coming out AFTER belle. I think we can safely assume that anything after Belle might be from Accenture. So nokia itself wont be doing much for symbian after belle, maybe just support but not much developing. This release of apps might just be one of the last batches of apps released for Symbian(maybe not meego). and all those symbian anna/belle phones being released quickly might be due to the rushing of projects.
In the next year we might know Nokia’s actual plans for symbian; Any future development for meego or symbian or just support for people with problems.
A thought I got after I wrote this extremely long post:
What if there wont be ANY big update after Belle? What if Accenture is just there to make those small updates that fix the small problems with the phone?
And these small updates are what Elop might be referring to when he said it will be supported til 2016.
2016 is a long time. Phones last about 3 years, so you’d expect some more Symbian products to be coming out until 2013, which is probably around the time Nokia can put out a lot of sub $200 Windows Phones.
If the 500 is any indication, the N8 is probably the last Symbian superphone ever. Anything after that is just going to be targetting the low end market like the 5230 until they can get something to replace it.
Then from early 2013 small updates and patches for 3 years.
well my theory was that no NEW symbian projects are going to be taken up. all the existing ones that Nokia has spent time on, will either be converted to WP7, OR given a very small release with symbian/meego like the Nokia N9. I wont be expecting many new Symbian phones unless there is a change in Nokia’s direction. The last Symbian phones will probably be released Q2 of 2012.
Symbian is like the full topping pizza Nokia ate yesterday, but it will take a few more hours to come out as shit. Nokia wont be eating anymore pizza from now on.
I think after Belle, Symbian^3 won’t need any major updates any more. I enjoy my N8 already now, with Anna and Belle, I think I will be very satisfied.
I agree Belle has fixed symbians 1 major flaw that was UI. With UI+Functionalities, it is almost a complete OS, I’d say its 80-90% complete.
what else would you want?
Im actually satisfied with the UI we got out of the box
and we could have easily customized our UI with SPB Mobile Shell
look @ SPB Ultimate Edition 4… it looks like Belle and you can have it now
look at the screen shots http://cellcustomize.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Preview-SPB-Ultimate-Edition-4-copy.jpg
But SPB slows the phone down so much, at least on my C7. It would be nice to have that natively where it didn’t eat so many CPU cycles and suck so much out of the battery.