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Ovi (Nokia) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ovi logo.Ovi is the name for Nokia's "umbrella concept" Internet services. Centered on ovi.com, it will market as "personal dashboard" where users can share photos with friends, buy music and access third-party services like Yahoo's Flickr photo site. It has some significance in that Nokia is moving deeper into the world of Internet services, where head-on competition with Microsoft, Google and Apple Inc. is inevitable.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Services
o 2.1 Nokia Ovi Suite
o 2.2 Ovi Sync
o 2.3 Ovi Store
o 2.4 Nokia Music Store
o 2.5 Nokia Maps
o 2.6 Ovi Mail
o 2.7 N-Gage
o 2.8 Share on Ovi
o 2.9 Files on Ovi
* 3 References
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
- History
Ovi was announced on August 29th 2007 at the Go Play event in London. The word "ovi" means "door" in Finnish. On December 4, a more ambitious plan was announced with more details about when public beta desktop software will be offered. The public beta was released August 28th, 2008.
Nokia over time has acquired key building blocks for OVI. This includes IP, patents and core components such as synchronization. Acquired IP, patents include companies such as Starfish Software, Intellisync and others. Other components have been developed internally.
- Services
- Nokia Ovi Suite
Nokia Ovi Suite allows Nokia mobile users to organize and share their photos and PIM data between their PC and their handset. Current version of Nokia Ovi Suite is 1.1. A Mac OS X compatible version is expected soon.
- Ovi Sync
Ovi Sync allows you to sync your contacts, calendar events and notes to ovi.com. The service can be used as a way to backup your data or to edit it in your computer to then send it back to your phone. There is no auto-sync yet.
- Ovi Store
During his keynote speech to the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanper? announced that the Ovi application store would be launched in May 2009.
- Nokia Music Store
Nokia Music Store allows purchasing of music directly on a mobile device or via PC. The store is already available in Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, France, Sweden, Spain and South Africa. With more countries coming soon.
- Nokia Maps
This service is planned to be offered under the Ovi brand starting fall 2007. The same functionalities will be available, users being able to download maps via phone or PC.
- Ovi Mail
Nokia's new Ovi service Ovi Mail's beta phase started on December 2008, and is also available for all Ovi users from 20th of February. Currently over 35 different phone models with S40 and S60 -platform support Nokias new mail service.
- N-Gage
The N-Gage 2.0 platform has been integrated into the Nokia N73, Nokia N78, Nokia N79, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N85, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N96 and Nokia 5320 mobile phones. Early in 2008 , an updated version of the mobile gaming platform (including its online component - the N-Gage Arena) is going live, according to Nokia. The service worked in the past only with Nokia's N-Gage mobile game consoles, but the company said it will soon work with other devices too.
- Share on Ovi
Share on Ovi is a media sharing website. Originally called Twango the site allows the upload and storage of photos, videos etc. Users can upload media direct from their nokia mobile phone through the share online 3.0 application or can alternately use their PC.
- Files on Ovi
Files on Ovi is an enhanced and re-branded version of the Avvenu "Access and Share" service, which Nokia purchased in December of 2007. The service allows users to access files on their computers from any remote PC (via Web browser) and many mobile devices, and also facilitates sharing files. It is expected to come out of Beta at the end of July, 2008.
Visit www.Ovi.com to experience internet service offerings from Nokia!
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