Last week Nokia introduced “Ovi“, their new extended platform for mobile services.
Ovi is supposed to offer a consolidated web portal to already existing Nokia mobile services, like music, games, and maps. Plus they plan to enable access to users’ existing social network, communities and content.
Nokia’s aim is to bring even more Internet based services to Ovi in the coming months, so we can all be curious.
As Nokia is offering a map application for their phones to European customers already this will now be integrated into the new home.
So far the Nokia Maps application offers services like,
maps of 150 countries, navigation and routing, supporting internal as well as external GPS receivers
3D route guidance of voice-guided navigation (at additional costs),
and city guides.
As Ovi means “door” in Finish you can see their ambition: an easy to use one-stop place on the web for users to access their Nokia services.
The Ovi is not yet open. But I’ll post again about it once it is.
[...] heard Nokia is pushing connected location based devices and context aware Internet services. They announced Ovi in August 2007, a portal for consumers to get to and share music, games and maps.Now they have started a beta [...]
By: The Nokia Sports Tracker « Loca Location on December 7, 2007
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