Known for its high featured mobile phones, Nokia, is coming with its web portal - Ovi, making foray into web services market. The Finland based company has designed Ovi to run music download services, games, maps and other online applications.
Nokia says that Ovi, which means ‘door’ in Finnish, will open new market possibilities for the Finnish mobile handset manufacturer. The company is keen to start generating revenues from services like sale of games, music over mobile Internet.
The company has also launched variety of new phones in the market, including the N81, a flagship music phone to give competition to Apple’s iPhone. These phones would be available on its new website.
As a part of its Ovi brand of Internet Services, Nokia is reviving N-gage platform in a new way. The new portal allows you to browse a wide selection of game titles, download free trails and purchase the games directly from Nokia. You can either purchase the game over the air or directly download on your PC first. You can buy game titles, including EA Sports’ FIFA 08, The Sims 2 Pets, Tetris, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and Crash Bandicoot, directly from Nokia.
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