This Week in Ovi – Nokia World Edition
Starting this week, we are renaming our “Oviapplications weekend hits..” posts to “This Week in Ovi”. Ever week, in the “This Week in Ovi” posts, we shall bring you a short summary and a link to read more about whatever made the news in Ovi & Nokia that week.This week was undoubtedly dominated by the much awaited Nokia World 2009, which saw new phones getting announced, Nokia first foray into the computer segment & new services being revealed. Also of interest and importance was the launch of the Ovi SDK & APIs letting the developers make use of Ovi services and quickly develop useful applications for a variety of phones as well as the web.
Nokia announced the X6 Touch-screen Music phone with Capacitive touch-screen, 32GB of Storage, a 5MP camera with Dual LED Flash and it “Comes with Music”.
Read more | Watch “Introducing X6” Video | Details & Specifications
Nokia also announced the X3 Music phone based on their S40 interface with a 3.2MP camera, direct access to Ovi Store and “Comes with Music”
Read more | Watch “Introducing X3” Video | Details & Specifications
The 3rd phone to be announced was the N97 Mini, a smaller variant of the flagship Nokia N97, with a personalised home screen, a 5MP camera with dual LED flash, slide out QWERTY keypad and 8GB of internal storage.
Read more | Watch “Introducing N97 Mini” Video | Details & Specifications
More specifications for the Booklet 3G, Nokia’s first computer running on Microsoft Windows, were revealed at the Nokia World. Powered by an Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz the booklet comes with a 1GB non-upgradable RAM, a 120GB hard disk and a 16 cell battery amongst others.
Read more | Watch “Introducing Booklet 3G” Video | Product Page
Nokia World also saw the launch of three new services at the Nokia Betalabs, all of them getting covered here at OviApplications.com in detail.
Ovi Lifecasting : Nokia Launches Ovi Lifecasting Beta to Help You Share Your Memories Instantly on Facebook
Nokia Messaging with Social Messaging : Nokia Messaging Expands to Social Messaging with the New Beta
Ovi Maps beta for S60v5 : Ovi Maps with New Content & Services Arrives at the Betalabs for Touch Phones
On the 2nd day of the Nokia World, Nokia announced the beta of the Ovi SDK & APIs for the developers. In the press release, they mentioned that “Nokia makes it easier for web publishers and developers to create applications with integrated services with Ovi APIs and Ovi SDK Beta introducing a new breed of applications for the web and smartphone platforms”
Ovi Opens up to the Developers with the launch of Ovi SDK beta & Ovi APIs
