Tag: "OVI"
‘Ovi Music Player’ becomes ‘Nokia Music Player’
I’m not sure how many of you actually use Nokia/Ovi music player but personally I use it transfer music to my phone as well as Metadeta collection for tracks. Overall it’s a ‘decent’ app in my opinion even though it does take ages to start-up, Nokia has pushed out a new update to version 2.5.11021 which [...]
Updated Nokia Store Look + Increase in Download Limit.
If you head over to http://store.nokia.com/ you’ll find that there’s been a couple changes to the layout, mainly moving all the categories to left side of the screen rather than having them cluttered up below the featured app. This new design does make it much simpler to navigate through the site and gives it a more professional look. However I [...]
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X HD available at Ovi Store! 146.79MB!
On Tuesday we saw that Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X was available on Gameloft’s site. It’s now available at the Ovi Store! Note that there’s a 146.79MB download so best download over WiFi. *Use WLAN for downloading 2014. You are David Crenshaw and you work with ARTEMIS, a private military company. Your objective is to rid the [...]
Ovi Store reaches 3.5 Million Downloads a day! Up from 3M 3 weeks ago.
Word on the tweets: Ovi Store has reached another new record! Only 3 weeks ago we heard that they crossed the massive 3M/day download threshold. Now it’s up a further 16.7% to 3.5M/day. That’s 1.2775 billion a year if Ovi Store doesn’t grow any more (though we know this is just the beginning). Content, ringtones/themes [...]
Video: TheTrainLine.com App for Symbian demoed on Nokia N8. Buy train tickets and check train times with ease!
Back in October we saw thetrainline.com advertising their application using the Nokia N8. This app has been available for download from Ovi Store for a few days now and let me tell you that it’s awesome! It is a really slick useful application for UK train travellers. You can check train times as well as [...]
Video: Bluetooth RC Mini cooper via Nokia N8
BeeWi recently released an app on the ovi store that allows you to use your Nokia (compatible with Symbian^3 & S60 3rd & 5th editions) to control and drive a BeeWi bluetooth Car. Of course like in every RC toy u can control left,right,up,down, but now with this you can also use the motion sensor [...]
Ovi Store hits over 1 Billion/year download rate with 3 Million downloads a day!
Ovi Store grows again! It’s not a surprise since content AND handsets are ramping up. Ovi Store downloads are now at 3 million a day or 1.065 Billion per year were Ovi Store NOT to grow for 365 days. Over 165 million Ovi Users, across more than 190 countries 250,000 new users every day 90% [...]
Video: PixelPipe Send and Share on the Nokia N8 (for other devices too!)
Brett Butterfield, CEO of PixelPipe gives us a quick overview of the new application, PixelPipe Send and Share coming soon to OVI store. Demoed on the Nokia N8 (but noted that it’s for older devices too), it allows you to quickly and easily upload photos from the gallery. Thanks Brett for the demo. My fault [...]
Augmented reality interactive magazine with Nokia N8 and Junaio coming soon to OVI
Here’s an incredible app coming soon to the Ovi Store. It’s called Junaio and it uses the Nokia N8′s (or any) camera to project an alternative augmented reality on the phone’s display. OK. You may have seen this before. What’s really cool is that the content was partnered with a magazine. An ordinary paper print [...]
Video: Super smooth Pinch and Zoom in Ovi Maps demoed in 25 minute Nokia N8 Truck in Hamburg
In all the Nokia N8 demoes we’ve seen thus far, Ovi Maps has only been shown to zoom with the zoom bar. Multitouch is available on the N8 but it was not yet working for Ovi Maps (though it was mentioned to be coming soon) In this 25 minute video (Skip to 24:05) you’ll see [...]
Video: Lady Geek Episode 2: Win the Nokia E72 (+ Open Table Review)
Last week, Lady Geek premiered with a bumper Ovi Highlights edition. Now here’s episode 2. Just wait a bit as they will get around to covering an app for Symbian: Open Table. This is an app that will help you find restaurants, either nearby with GPS or at a specific destination. You can browse restaurants [...]
Video: Lady Geek TV Episode #1 – New Mobile App Show. Ovi highlights + chance to win a Nokia X6.
A new mobile app show has popped up on YouTube starring a couple of ladies. These girls aren’t just pretty faces – they’re tech geeks! Lady Geeks. I’m unfamiliar with Debs (on the right – who sounds Welsh ) but Rhiain Morgan (who’s definitely Welsh – yay Wales!) is an ex T3 editor and true [...]
Ovi Magazine?! 44 page glossy mag to unleash to power of your Nokia!
CJ of ZOMGitsCJ reports that there’s a new publication available: Ovi Magazine. If you head over to the ISSUU page you’ll notice a 44-page magazine to help you get the most of your Nokia. I’d embed here but wordpress.com 100% SUCKS at doing anything other than adding a picture or a youtube video. I am [...]
Video: Coming to Ovi Maps? 3D Navigation maps accelerated with OpenGL ES 2.0.
Nokia’s Ovi Maps has a feature called 3D landmarks (and 3D view mode). The rest of the (NAVTEQ) maps is fairly flat with silhouettes of buildings/houses. Now Imagine that the entire Maps system navigation experience had full 3D, with every building rendered to the correct proportion. This would be a great next step to Ovi [...]
10 Reasons why I love Ovi Maps 3.03 on the N97 and think it's freakin' Brilliant.
Last Tuesday, I went up to Manchester as I had an interview there (sidenote: got an offer yesterday btw – hehe score!). I didn’t know Manchester that well (2-3 years the last time I was there) so I made sure I brought the N97 with the newly upgraded Ovi Maps 3.03 with free navigation [and [...]
Video: Hitler finds out Nokia's Ovi Maps Turn by Turn navigation is now free
TomTom and Garmin’s shares are taking a tumble after Nokia’s announcement that their Ovi Maps turn-by-turn navigation is now free (on selected devices). Who’s gonna need alternative and dedicated SatNav’s now when your phone can do it all for you? And especially one that works offline so you either don’t need a data plan or [...]
News: Nokia Ovi "Big Announcement" Today!
As jay earlier announce, Nokia’s big news is the FREE Ovi maps for everyone forever on Nokia devices! Currently this is available on the following devices: X6 N97 Mini E72 E55 E52 6730 Classic 6710 Navigator 5800 Express Music 5800 Navigation Ediion 5230 UPDATE 1: Jay just provided us with the following news: Nokia N97 [...]
2 hours to go till the big Ovi Event!
The countdown is down to it’s last two hours! What will be happening in the Big Ovi Event, today, Jan 21st 2010? events.nokia.com/countdown/ The announcement will be 09:30GMT on the dot, followed by a Q&A. At 13:00GMT there’ll be another virtual Q&A hosted by Nokia Product Managers. -There’s a chance I’m gonna miss this as [...]
What on earth is happening Tomorrow on Thursday, 21st January 2010?! What's Nokia/Ovi got cooking?
As you may have undoubtedly heard, Nokia’s got something going on with Ovi on Thursday, 21st January 2010, 09:45am GMT. Events are being held in London, as well as NY, Moscow, Paris, Mexico City and Berlin with an invite looking like the one below: If you head over to http://events.nokia.com/countdown/ you’ll see a clock ticking [...]
Event: Nokia Signpost London – Good Things attendees
Here are a selection of photos of the attendees on last week’s Good Things event in London, courtesy of WOMWorld. There’s a gallery at the bottom as wordpress might break if I try to insert all the photos individually. The gallery consists mostly of four destinations: first the boat that was privately hired to cruise [...]
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