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Nokia gives away Navigation/OVI Maps for free

By sinha 1 Comment

Under pressure from Google’s Android, Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no cost, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. The new version of … Read More »

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26 May

Nokia OVI Store – What a Disastrous Launch

By sinha 4 Comments

Much awaited Nokia OVI store is finally live and has been launched officially. The site was unexpectedly slow since morning (serious disaster for a company that wants to take on Apple) and we ran out of patience to figure out … Read More »

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08 Apr

Nokia N-Gage Launched in India

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Nokia has launched N-Gage (part of Ovi service) in India, enabling users to play high-quality made-for-mobile games using the N-Gage mobile application on their N-Gage compatible devices. With the N-Gage application on their devices, people can connect with other e-players … Read More »

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08 Sep

Nokia to launch OVI (Finally!) – will start with Mobisodes

By sinha 3 Comments

Nokia’s OVI service which was supposed to be launched in Q1, 2008 , then delayed to Q2 is finally seeing some light. The service is expected to be launched in another few weeks and Nokia has tied up with Hungama … Read More »

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04 Dec

India Business roundup: Nokia’s big bet on UGC, mapunity to ease delhi traffic..and more

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Nokia to bet big on UGC in mobile space Around 25% of all entertainment content on internet and mobile phones will be the work of consumers who mix and edit information to send to friends, according to Nokia. In an … Read More »

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02 Sep

Weekly Buzz in the Indian Internet/Telecom world [August 27th to September 2nd]

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This week is loaded with telecom related buzz. One of the most significant development is the launch of OVI, Nokia’s Internet services offerings. Also, Reliance unveiled it’s video rental service BigFlicks – which is inspired from Netflix and Blockbuster model … Read More »

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30 Aug

Nokia OVI – Nokia is now an “Internet services” company and no more a mobile manufacturer

By sinha 11 Comments

With the launch of Ovi, Nokia unleashed it’s new avatar of being an “Internet services” company and no more just the mobile manufacturer. What’s OVI? OVI is the door (thats what ovi means in Finnish. i.e. door) to Nokia’s Internet … Read More »

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