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  After years of brand building and when consumers related Ovi as a brand of Nokia, the Finnish giant pulls the plug from the Ovi name. They’ve announced that they’ll drop the Ovi name and the Ovi branded services will now be known as Nokia services. Nokia’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jerri DeVard says [...]

  It’s curtains for Nokia’s Ovi Music Unlimited service in 27 countries. Few countries that Nokia will continue to sell devices bundled with the the yearly unlimited music service will be China, India and Indonesia whereas Brazil, Turkey and South Africa consumers will enjoy 6-months subscription service. Ovi Music Unlimited was Nokia’s way to give [...]

  Microsoft has launched their first application as part of its alliance with Nokia for mobile productivity. Microsoft Communicator Mobile is a unified communications client that connects to company’s communications systems. The application simply integrates with the contacts menu and allows users to see their colleague’s availability where they can easily communicate with them over [...]

  If Nokia’s recent phone announcements are any indication, they are trying to pull the consumers back with highly competitive pricing. Today Nokia dropped X2 phone and although not as powerful and attractive as the N8, this one is surely going to please the people here in India who are looking for a sub-5K phone. [...]

  Nokia today announced that their newest version of Ovi Maps with free navigation has topped more than a million downloads in a week. Since the announcement on Jan 21, Ovi Maps has been downloaded 1.4m times and is currently averaging one download/second, which is astounding. Nokia says free navigation was only possible due to [...]

  UPDATE 2: N97 support has been added. UPDATE: N97 support will be added in a week. After Google heating up the PND market by offering free navigation to DROID users, it seems Nokia will follow the suit too. Nokia’s official announcement is expected in an hour but a report from Reuters suggests that Nokia [...]

  Nokia N-Gage that had got a resurrection in 2008 as a gaming platform will be shut down in September 2010. Nokia announced to end its platform because Ovi Store handles all the software requirements of Nokia devices and the games too, will be sold in the same store. As for N-Gage, Nokia won’t publish [...]

  Nokia’s Ovi Maps 3.0 has graduated from the beta labs and can now be downloaded from the Nokia Maps portal. The graduated final build comes in with some nifty features like traffic report for North America, ironed out bugs and UI enhancements. Google Maps for many might be a sophisticated navigation app but for [...]

  Nokia’s Ovi Store is now live in all the countries. Symbian S60 users can go to store.ovi.com or can access Download! from their phone to download the app. The apps list on the Store is slim at the moment but expect it to populate in the coming days. Ovi Store

  As expected, Nokia has gone by its word and launched the Ovi Store. Though it’s accessible only from countries like Australia, Ireland and Singapore, more countries are expected to join the list soon. Nokia also confirmed about moving the Ovi Store to ‘production servers’ which means a global access will be possible by the [...]

  Nokia’s bid to establish its hold in the US market has again misfired. This time it does not deal with phone recalls but for the payment options of its to be launched Ovi Store. The one-stop shop from Nokia will not offer operator billing option for customers buying content from US. The reason for [...]

Nokia finally announced the horizontal QWERTY phone, E75 and an unexpected E55. E55 has a compact QWERTY keyboard, which in other words is Nokia’s version of SureType keyboard. Both the phones come with GPS, 3 megapixel camera, N-gage and Ovi support. E55 also boasts a month of standby time. E75 will ship from March at [...]