Yesterday also witnessed the announcement of Nokia’s application store, ‘The Ovi Store’. With this launch, Nokia also joins the likes of Apple, RIM (BlackBerry) and Samsung having online application stores for its products.
The Ovi Store will be location aware and will be launched this May in about 8 countries and will support close to 50 million devices, which includes existing S40 and S60 customers. The revenue split will be 70% to developers. In addition, the developer’s site publish.ovi.com was announced. The store will be able to “learn” your tastes over time and anticipate what you want, and make recommendations based on your geographical location. The store will offer a range of content including applications, games, videos, widgets, podcasts, location-based applications and personalized content.
UPDATE: ZomgitsCj reports that Samsung and LG phones (maybe even the Sony Ericsson too) will be able to use the Ovi Store. More on that here!
After ‘accidentally’ leaking out images of the Nokia N86, Nokia today finally launched the N86 officially. The Nokia N86 8MP is slated to be Nokia’s next flagship product.
The N86 8MP will be rocking the S60 3rd
edition with FP2. This time Nokia seems to have learnt it’s lesson by having burnt its fingers with the N96. The Nokia N86 8MP will have a 1200 mAH (BL-5K) battery. The N86 will also rock with a 2.6″ QVGA AM-OLED screen ala N85. the 8 Megapixel beast from Nokia is slated to take on its rivals with a dual LED (3rd generation) flash. The Carl Zeiss Tessar optics lens on this baby is in the same league as the sort of wide angle 35mm lens you’d find on an SLR camera and has been engineered to offer sharper image contrast and better colour representation. With 8GB of built in memory apart from 74MB of dynamic internal memory, the N86 will also offer a Micro SD card slot for Micro SDHC cards up to 16GB. Equipped with a
dual slider design, it will carry the legacy of the recent Nseries flagships.
Expect it to cost in the range of approx. 375 Euros (approx $470, Indian Rs 23,000) before taxes and subsidies. The Nokia N86 8MP should be available in Q2 2009.
Gallery of N86 images:
There are a slew of videos to pertaining to the N86. All of them are embedded below so you don’t have to go anywhere to see it.
- Introducing the N86:
- A conversation with the Product Manager of the N86:
- Nokia N86 8MP Handled: