Talking Tom Cat. Clash of Clans. Subway Surfers. TubeMate 3. Google Play. Biden to send military medical teams to help hospitals. N95, KN95, KF94 masks. GameStop PS5 in-store restock. Baby Shark reaches 10 billion YouTube views. Microsoft is done with Xbox One. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET. Download Now. For example, when we reviewed this application we were in Mumbai and it showed us all information like movies running in nearby cinema halls, nearby restaurants, also various events happening around our location.
It also shows the weather. It searches the query fired by the user across the device. No, it was because it was a pain and terrible experience to use. How Nokia can get something as important as an app store broken is beyond me. The new Ovi Store aims to fix that.
First, the UI has been refreshed to make it easier for the user to navigate and more importantly — buy apps. Free content is available in over countries whereas credit card billing is available in over countries.
In addition to those, as of the end of October , 99 operators in 29 countries support integrated mobile billing with Ovi Store. Nokia gave massive amounts of cheques and hundreds of N8 devices to aspiring developers. There was a sign that Nokia is finally beginning to understand the reality — that former customers are flocking to Apple and Android because of the App Store and Android Market.
Still, Nokia could do a lot better to ship the N8 with a built-in Ovi Store rather than a link to download it! I am not sure of the numbers, but there are a couple of thousands of applications on the Ovi Store. Many are bound to be utterly useless, or merely bookmarks or glorified RSS readers. But deep inside are a handful of gems. Tweets60 is an adequate free alternative, though no where as good as Gravity.
Gameplay suffers hugely due to the lack of hardware buttons. The Ovi Store is improving. The speed of downloads and ability to pause and continue a download is a major plus. Now having used the new Ovi Store, I find that while the Marketplace is still prettier, the new Ovi Store is just as quick and as easy to use.
About six months ago Nokia unshackled Ovi Maps and made the previously paid for navigation feature free for all their modern smartphones with a built-in GPS receiver, including naturally the N8. It is now available in 76 countries in over 40 languages. It features a brilliant offline feature that allows users to freely download maps from countries through a desktop client, thus saving on data costs.
Ovi Maps has a pretty good user interface. Starting it up, the user will be brought to the console filled with grids of icons where most of the features are available just one touch away. Most of the features here are standard offerings in a GPS-navigation software. There are a couple of widgets here: Weather, Events, Qype etc. I find the service to be rather useful, and a huge improvement from when I last used it — for example Events now suggests the nearer Vue Watford, rather than the previous versions when it suggested Cineworld Luton, a good 9.
The Premium guides are available through Lonely Planet and ViaMichelin though they do seem to have more cities oriented. Key changes in this beta Ovi Maps 3. Underlying map data has been updated. Details view now includes weather forecast information. Application performance has been improved e. There are improvements in search division between addresses and place , general UI prompting less warning messages. This is the final beta before release and feels very much like a release candidate.
The built in shop has been streamlined. Purchase options have been simplified and the on-device purchase process credit card and pSMS is much improved.
There is also a clearer option for manually entering a license key. Existing country specific licenses will be automatically upgraded to European wide licenses. Pricing for other regions do vary e. Travel guides have been removed from the shop; they are now available via Ovi Store. Traffic information functionality has expanded and is available in more markets. It includes both real time traffic information and speed camera warnings. Mapping and application performance The new beta updates the map data set to the latest set issued by Navteq.
Favourites landmarks and Sync Places and routes can be stored as favourites. Details view and weather forecasts Weather forecasts are now included in the details view accessed via the central context menu. Search and PoI access via explore The search function has been divided into an address search i. Traffic information and speed cameras The traffic information service, which is available as an add-on service, has been improved and expanded in the latest beta.
Installation and compatibility As with previous updates there is a multi-step install process to follow.
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