MANILA, Philippines - With almost every handy device in this jam-packed mobile world now armed with full touchscreens, multiple megapixel cameras, wifi capabilities, GPRS features, and immense memory capacity, the battle for mobile phone supremacy enters a new playing field. With features of cellular phones on more or less equal footing across the board, Nokia decided to take the battle to a front where it is sure it will win the war: solutions and services. Nokia gives its users customer satisfaction by letting them define how they want their mobiles to function instead of merely being forced to work with what you usually have.
“The Ovi Store will enable our devices to uniquely surface relevant content for consumers based on their mobile device, their interests and their needs, bringing a new generation of media services to the fingertips of millions of people around the world,” said Sandeep Khanna, Marketing Head, Nokia Philippines. The Ovi Store is a ‘smart store’ that will change the way our consumers discover and consume content on their mobile devices, ultimately making the experience easier, more fun and most importantly, more relevant. The content will range from applications, games and videos to widgets, podcasts, location-based applications and personalization content for Nokia devices
Whether you want to save yourself from slipping into a coma from boredom, stay up to date with world events, or need help when traveling, the Ovi Store has an application for you.
Here are some far out (and free!) applications for Nokia S60 5th edition devices like the Nokia N97:
Tweets60 Social Networks
Being away from the computer doesn’t mean you can’t tell your many Followers your every move. With Tweets60, you’ll still be able to let everyone know what you had for breakfast, are having for lunch, and plan to have for dinner - all on the palm of your Nokia Series 60 mobile phone.
AccuWeather.com N97 WRT Widget News & Info
Don’t trust PAGASA’s weather forecast? With this application you’ll have access to current conditions and severe weather risk for the next 6 hours, rain totals for the next 5 days, temperature and sky conditions for the next 15 hours; 10 days and nights of forecasts; 15 hours of hourly forecast information; a 15-day forecast, high temperature, 9 stored locations, low temperature, daytime high wind speed; or satellite map centered on your location with 5 levels of zoom. To know if classes are cancelled or not, you’ll have to ring your school for that.
WorldMate 2009 City Guides/Maps
The #1 Travel application for S60 free services: World Clocks– 5 city clocks; Currency Converter- exchange rates for 160 currencies; Weather Forecasts- 5 day forecasts; Weathercaster- Get your local forecast read to you; Flight Alerts- Real time alerts from 350 airlines – delays, cancelations, gate changes; Flight Status Lookups- Check the status at any time; and Flight Schedules Search- Detailed schedules for over 800 airlines
Nokia Messaging
With Nokia Messaging, you can send and receive mail automatically from up to 10 of your personal email accounts, each in its own easy-to-use mailbox. Nokia Messaging supports thousands of leading global and local email providers, so setup is simple. And with all the functionality you expect from a premium email service using Nokia Messaging to mobilize your favorite accounts helps you stay in touch wherever you are.
Easy Wi-Fi automates connection to the Wi-Fi hotspots you use. No need to use a browser and remember usernames and passwords. Easy Wi-Fi makes it simple and fast to get connected.
Alphabet Wordsearch Word
Get on your letter smarts with Alphabet WordSearch, a highly addictive word game guaranteed to entertain for hours. The rules are very simple - locate words hidden in a grid of letters. With twenty six categories, one for each letter of the alphabet, three different board sizes and three levels of difficulty Alphabet WordSearch can generate an unlimited number of grids. If you prefer a themed WordSearch, why not check out the Food & Drink, Geography, Hobbies, Nature, People or Deluxe WordSearch games.
Speedtouch Arcade
Speedtouch is the fast reaction game for the new generation of Nokia mobile phones. Simply touch the orange spheres with your fingers or the stylus to get more and more hits. Collect the blue globes to reduce the otherwise always increasing speed. Try to hit the balls as precisely as possible; otherwise your chance for a new high score will be lost.
For more free applications, log on to www.store.ovi.com