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Good Things added to Nokia's Ovi Maps
Points of interest get crowd-sourced 5 October 2009 12:12 GMT
Nokia has added a new feature to its Ovi Maps service that will allow users to find points of interest, but also to make contributions themselves. It's called "Good Things".

The idea is that locals know an area best, and allowing them to recommend great restaurants,...
The 10 bold moves of Nokia
Five of the tops and five of the flops 25 August 2009 19:42 GMT
The launch of the Nokia Booklet 3G this week was a bold move for a company that saw its greatest period of success after they decided to drop their broader interests and specialise in mobile phones. However, despite Nokia's single-mindedness, the Finnish giant's recent history...
Nokia updates Ovi Maps with 3D vector graphics and an API
Phone giant takes aim at Google Maps 21 May 2009 12:34 GMT
Nokia has updated its Ovi Maps product and launched an API for developers to create applications for it.

The Finnish mobile handset company's new mapping site allows users to add and save their own locations, as well as shifting to a vector-graphics approach,...
T-Mobile and Nokia to team-up on widgets
MWC 2009: "An integrated marketplace for mobile content and Internet services" 17 February 2009 9:48 GMT
Nokia and T-Mobile have announced plans to jointly promote their respective offering for widgets, applications and other content to "provide customers with easy access to a vast range of Internet services".

Customers can browse and download widgets from both...
Nokia Ovi Store coming to Samsung and LG handsets
MWC 2009: All S60 to be included 17 February 2009 2:20 GMT
The newly announced Nokia Ovi Store will be available on all S60 and S40 handsets, including models Nokia doesn't make Pocket-lint has learnt.

The new store, launched on Monday at Mobile World Congress, will allow users to download new applications on their...
Nokia Ovi Store gives apps to Nokia users
MWC 2009: Coming May 16 February 2009 9:49 GMT
Nokia has announced that it will follow Apple and other manufacturers in launching its own app store.

The new Ovi store will be available from May and be available on over 50 million S40 and S60 handsets around the world.

Available as a downloadable...
Nokia Mail on Ovi goes live
Public beta available for Series 40 devices 22 December 2008 10:32 GMT
Announced at the recent Nokia World event, Mail on Ovi, the free email account from Nokia, is now live and can be set up directly on Nokia phones without requiring a PC to get started.

People who use Nokia Series 40 devices can create their own email address...
Nokia Maps gets beta features
Ovi integration and 3D landmarks 2 December 2008 9:28 GMT
At its Nokia World event that's seen the launch of the new N97, Nokia has released the latest beta version of its mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, as well as its personalised online mapping experience on Ovi.

Nokia says this combination of...
VIDEO: Nokia promises software for Macs
"We're not looking to compete with iLife" 19 November 2008 11:31 GMT
Nokia Ovi Suite for Mac is coming soon, it's been revealed by the Nokia "conversations" blog site.

Nokia freely admits in the past it has focused more on Windows computers, as that's where their core audience - and budget - has always been.

Nokia...
Nokia to demo Ovi online
"Stepwise" web tutorial later today 9 September 2008 12:15 GMT
In an online event later today Nokia is going to demonstrate some new features of Ovi.com.

The new personal information management sync functionality of Ovi.com, as well as the Nokia Ovi Suite for PC and the Files on Ovi remote-access service will be shown...
Nokia and T-Mobile do deal on mobile web services
Faster and easier web access promised 2 May 2008 14:37 GMT
Two of the world's biggest players in the mobile phone market have announced that they are going to work together to bring the Internet to more European mobile phone users.

T-Mobile and Nokia have announced they have begun to collaborate to offer their European...