Nokia’s Ovi Store promises to ease work for content developers
Jun 29, 2010
NOKIA has rolled out a platform that allows developers of data to sell it easily to its intended users worldwide. Ugandan bloggers, online publishers and website developers can use Nokia’s Ovi Store to sell their graphics, music, movies, ring tones, text, software, digital assets and document form
By Nigel Nassar
NOKIA has rolled out a platform that allows developers of data to sell it easily to its intended users worldwide. Ugandan bloggers, online publishers and website developers can use Nokia’s Ovi Store to sell their graphics, music, movies, ring tones, text, software, digital assets and document formats.
Ovi Store is a collection of Internet services accessible via Nokia mobile devices, and keeps people connected to others. “Through Ovi Store, Ugandans in the business of content development can sign up via www.publish.ovi.com and make a lot of money distributing their content,†said Dorothy Ooko, the Nokia communications manager for East and Southern Africa.
Ovi Store includes navigation and premium travel content, music downloads, email and messaging, and the sharing content.
Ooko, who launched the device last week in Kampala, said Ugandans were welcome aboard either as individuals or groups, to open up an Ovi accounts and do business with Nokia at minimal investment costs.
“We have decided to increase opportunity and lower barriers to entry by supporting individual developers, reducing investment costs and providing cross-platform application development for Symbian and Maemo Nokia devices with the Qt SDK 1.0.â€
Symbian is one of Nokia’s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and smart phones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools; while Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smart phones and Internet tablets. Ooko said in the event an individual develops a popular application that is user-friendly; Nokia could buy its software from the developer and distribute it to its customers free of charge.
She individuals will still be required to pay the one-time euro 50 registration fee, and they can submit applications that are written in Qt, Symbian, Java, Flash Lite or Web Runtime.
Allowing individuals to publish their applications to Ovi Store is similar to what Apple and Android are doing.
Ooko said the move is a part of the new Forum Nokia developer mantra - Design, Develop and Distribute.
NOKIA has rolled out a platform that allows developers of data to sell it easily to its intended users worldwide. Ugandan bloggers, online publishers and website developers can use Nokia’s Ovi Store to sell their graphics, music, movies, ring tones, text, software, digital assets and document formats.
Ovi Store is a collection of Internet services accessible via Nokia mobile devices, and keeps people connected to others. “Through Ovi Store, Ugandans in the business of content development can sign up via www.publish.ovi.com and make a lot of money distributing their content,†said Dorothy Ooko, the Nokia communications manager for East and Southern Africa.
Ovi Store includes navigation and premium travel content, music downloads, email and messaging, and the sharing content.
Ooko, who launched the device last week in Kampala, said Ugandans were welcome aboard either as individuals or groups, to open up an Ovi accounts and do business with Nokia at minimal investment costs.
“We have decided to increase opportunity and lower barriers to entry by supporting individual developers, reducing investment costs and providing cross-platform application development for Symbian and Maemo Nokia devices with the Qt SDK 1.0.â€
Symbian is one of Nokia’s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and smart phones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools; while Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smart phones and Internet tablets. Ooko said in the event an individual develops a popular application that is user-friendly; Nokia could buy its software from the developer and distribute it to its customers free of charge.
She individuals will still be required to pay the one-time euro 50 registration fee, and they can submit applications that are written in Qt, Symbian, Java, Flash Lite or Web Runtime.
Allowing individuals to publish their applications to Ovi Store is similar to what Apple and Android are doing.
Ooko said the move is a part of the new Forum Nokia developer mantra - Design, Develop and Distribute.