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OVI Store rebranded to Nokia Store

by Farhan on September 17, 2011

We just noticed that Nokia has removed OVI branding from their OVI Store site , now it’s just Nokia branding , however the address is the still the same store.ovi.com , while store.nokia.com is non-existent . Nokia had been working on changing all the OVI branding into generic Nokia brand like OVI Maps are now [...]

Have you played Need for Speed series , how about Asphalt 6 d you feel the adrenalin rush when paying these high speed games. I’m also a fan of these high speed intense games but sometimes I miss the simple car racing games like Lotus Racing (circa 1992) where all you do is change lanes [...]

Nokia is making PC Redundant

by Farhan on December 6, 2010

Nokia with it’s OVI Suite and other services is fast making PCs go redundant . During the past years , Nokia is slowly bringing out services which does not require a use of PC as an intermediary by enabling the device and software to do all the functions . Let’s begin with the much talked [...]

Apps for Nokia N8 on OVI Store

by Farhan on September 5, 2010

As I already been saying that Symbian^3 is just an extension of S60V5 and OVI Store just proved it to me .  I ran a search for apps on OVI Store for N8 and all the apps which came back are the ones I’m running on my Nokia N97 Mini a S60V5 phone .  Still [...]

So you think you can do better than the Surfer Dude on OVI Maps , how about like me sick of listening to a robotic voice Urdu directions . I want my directions my way and in my language the way I want to listen and all this is made possible by Own Voice for [...]

Nokia Pakistan had been quick in taking advantage of the recently released Nokia Communities software for E63 and they used it to their advantage to move the E63 stocks The ad shows a woman hidden behind a Pink /  Burgundy E63 with the tagline Call me a Chatterbox , I’ve Got all my Chat in [...]

Today I was checking out the OVI Maps on the web at maps.ovi.com , and I noticed two new icons .  One was with cars made on it and the other looked like Speed Cam .  Now OVI Maps are not available for Pakistan , so I changed the city to Paris and  ran a [...]

Just 21 hrs from now , Nokia is going to launch their new service labeled Everyone Connects -  which Eldar Murtezin tweets as “ Ovi Maps integration with Messaging “ Now when I interviewed Dieter May at MWC 2010 , he told me that Nokia is working on a Map Maker kind of software where [...]

I was never a big OVI Maps fan , Nokia and Navteq not having detailed maps of Pakistan or even my city Karachi , one of the largest metropolis of the world with a population upward of 17 million people , OVI Maps were no use for me and I was using Garmin XT with [...]

Planning a Trip with OVI Maps

by Farhan on March 25, 2010

OVI Maps , Nokia’s free for all Navigation Tool is great for planning a trip  .  For me the service is of no use in Pakistan as there are no maps available , but since  the maps had been set free , whenever I or any of my colleagues travel aboard , it’s an essential [...]