Nokia has been killing off the Ovi brand lately, and a new step towards the extinction of this name has been taken, with the launch of their new Nokia Store, which is based on Qt Quick.The new Qt Quick-based version of the Nokia Store client has been announced ...

Apple’s iOS App Store is the world’s most popular on-device mobile app portal by leaps and bounds, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the best opportunity for developers according to Berlin, Germany-based market research firm research2guidance. Apple has a wide lead over competitors in terms of overall downloads and the number of ...

Ovi Store, the official application portal for Nokia Symbian devices, is now powered by Nokia Drop, the Finnish handset vendor has just announced.Basically, this means that the Ovi Store now features enhanced integration with Drop, and that users will find it easier than before to send applications, themes, ...

Nokia recently announced that its Ovi Store has served a record 7.62 million downloads in a single day. The figure is a large jump from the 3 million daily downloads Nokia said the Ovi Store was serving in October of last year. The phone maker attributed its app store’s popularity ...

A new flavor of Ovi Maps is now available for download for all owners of devices running under the Symbian^3 operating system, Ovi Maps v3.08.The new version of the application brings forth enhancements that are mainly aimed at drivers, with a new design in tow, and with various other ...

A new flavor of Nokia's Ovi Suite application is now available for download for owners of handsets from the leading mobile phone maker, namely Nokia Ovi Suite 3.1.1.75.The new flavor of the desktop client is a final release, which follows a series of beta releases of the app, and ...

When made available later during the ongoing year, the next version of Microsoft's mobile operating system, called Windows Phone Mango, should be loaded on handsets from Nokia as well, and will also include support for specific features, such as Ovi Maps APIs.In February this year, Nokia and Microsoft announced ...

A new flavor of Nokia Ovi Suite was made available for download from the Nokia Beta Labs today, namely Nokia Ovi Suite 3.1.1.40 Beta, with a series of enhancements meant to bring it closer to a final release.Of course, there still are a series of other enhancements that ...

While celebrating the “World IPv6 Day” Nokia has reaffirmed its commitment to the IPv6 standard that should be deployed in the next couple of months.With the IPv4 addresses exhausting at a fast pace, the only solution remains to switch to the new system, IPv6, which has a huge address space ...

Among the mobile applications that owners of Nokia devices can enjoy through the Ovia Store, we can count the NetQin Mobile Anti-virus, which was only recently added to the storefront, but which already enjoys increased adoption among users. The development team behind the application notes that the software has ...

On Monday Nokia announced that it’s killing off the Ovi brand. Beginning in July and August, the Finnish firm will rebrand its Ovi products under the “Nokia services” moniker, and the transition will continue into next year. “By centralizing our services identity under one brand, not two, we will reinforce ...

Nokia is officially dropping the Ovi brand starting this summer, but it will keep all the services offered under the name. Starting with the new phones that will be released on the market in July and August, Ovi Services will be rebranded as Nokia Services.According to Nokia, this is just ...