Nokia to launch its own app store/portal at MWC 09

Symbian may be the most popular smartphone platform in the world and there may be tons of interesting mobile apps for it out there.

The problem is – there’s no way to easily find and get them on to your handset. And when it’s too hard to do that, the users simply do not bother.

All the  handset vendors were making an excuse for years that mobile apps are just too different and probably won’t ever be as popular as the desktop software apps.

Well, with 500 mil downloads and counting, Apple App Store certainly disproved that notion. So it’s time for the handset makers to start scrambling with their own easy to use App stores as well. Samsung already has one.

And today we learned that during MWC 09 in Barcelona, Nokia is going to announce its own mobile applications portal as well.

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According to Eldar Murtazin, the new Nokia app store is already up and running in a closed mode:

At first glance, for now, the app portal looks so so, there is some confusion. But they are trying, polishing it and a lot has changed for the better in a matter of days. A right step in a right direction… And the distribution and revenue sharing model between app makers and Nokia looks very attractive.

I’d say it’s high time for a budding “Internet company”, which Nokia strives to be, to have its own easy to use applications portal. I hope they will get it right this time.

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Posted on 07 Feb 09 - Filed in Nokia, Wireless - Comments - Written by Staska

  • Does it matter if Samsung and Nokia have app stores (a cobranded Symbian store?) if mobile carriers don't feature them in the client configurations? While Apple had the power to force the issue with AT&T in the US, do Nokia and the other handset manufacturers have the clout to make their app store a home page app and part of new phone orientation?
  • Josh ferguson
    when is the app store actaully going to be released for nokia
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