Nokia 'Ovi Store' expands despite doubts about its future

Microsoft App Store is expected to replace the door, but not for a while ,Nokia Ovi application download store has reached $ 5 million per day, and the number of applications in the store is over 40,000, an increase of eight times in his first year, Nokia announced on Tuesday.

nokia's ovi app store logo

Although Nokia promotes the success of its application store, he did so as the future of the store is bound by the agreement of the manufacturer of mobile phones to work with Microsoft in smart phone sales of Windows Phone 2012. Microsoft also has a store in application called Windows Marketplace, and analysts say it is unlikely that the two stores continue when Nokia began selling phones with Windows coming years. Symbian smartphones will be replaced almost entirely by Windows phones in 2013, according to forecasts by Gartner and IDC.

 Nokia spokesman, said Tuesday that the details of the agreement Microsoft are still being finalized, and added: &quote; Having said that, as much as 5 million downloads per day Door Store is very important for Nokia and its current and future customers Symbian and Nokia continue to argue that, in order to provide consumers the best possible experience. &quote; Analysts said that even if the shop door, and Symbian will continue as planned, for two years, which is well within the life of a smartphone and Nokia will offer a full range of support for many applications for sale. Nokia on Tuesday announced the upgrade of Symbian OS, and two new smartphones, E6 and X7.

Nokia sees clearly continuing its momentum of its Ovi Store and Symbian, noting that 1,000 more applications are added every week to the current list of store 40,000. For comparison, the market ;s first and largest app, the App Store from Apple, more than 350,000 applications for its iPhone.

Opera Mobile 11 or Mini 6?

Pinch zooming works very smoothly on the new version of Opera, and so does web page rendering and HTML5 support.

Opera has last month released two versions of its mobile browser, the Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 sending the users into a tizzy as which one should they go for?
The biggest difference between the two is that Opera Mobile 11 is only for those smartphones that has Symbian, Android or Windows Phone operating system. Else, you will have to be content with Opera Mini 6 only.
The core of both the mobile browsers remains the same. The browser experience and features are also similar in both. The browser engine in Opera Mini 6 is located on Opera servers, whereas Opera Mobile 11 has the browser engine stored in your phone itself.
When the users enter a web address in the address bar of the browser, the Opera Mobile 11 gets the page loaded directly from the web server, whereas in Opera Mini 6, the request first goes to Opera Mini server, which gets the pages for you from the web. The pages are then converted into a lightweight version which is then sent to the smartphones.
In Opera Mini 6, however, some complicated web pages may not appear correctly in your smartphones. The advanced users could get both the browsers installed and browse mobile websites depending on the connection, for example they may use Opera Mobile 11 when they are on WiFi and Opera Mini 6 when they are browsing on mobile service provider network.
There are some superficial changes such as the black navigation bar background and menu bar icon that now appears as "O". Once users start browsing, they notice the deeper changes. The HTML5 support, better web page rendering, and of course the touchscreen specialist —pinch zooming, which is extremely smooth and works well even on phones where RAM (random access memory) is less.
However, the Pinch to Zoom function does not work well on resistive touchscreens or on phones where multi touch doesn't work.
The Symbian version of Opera Mobile 11 looks good. Zooming in the web pages doesn't distract from the web pages because the text fits again to adjust with the screen size. Another new feature is zooming in and zooming out by just tapping twice on the touchscreens. In the earlier version, only a single tap allowed users to zoom in.
The demand from users that they be allowed to quickly go up or down the web page has also been answered this time with the on screen arrows.
The sharing feature allowed in Android and Symbian (on these phones, sharing is called "SEND") phones lets users to share the web page address and title with others. The new tabs are opened in the background, another change from earlier Opera version.
And yes, users can play Flash videos on it without even downloading Flash player in their devices. The navigation bar of the browser goes to the top in tablet version of the browser.

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