Nokia Ovi Store Launches

Kensai7 writes "The much-awaited Nokia Ovi Store opened for business yesterday. By following a business model similar to that of successful rival Apple for the iPhone, Nokia is trying to provide developers and customers a vast portfolio of Symbian OS applications, games, widgets, etc. TechCrunch took a look at some of the more interesting applications available at the start, but was disappointed by the launch itself. The Ovi Store team acknowledged some difficulties due to high levels of traffic."

Nokia vs Apple

[mrops]

Before I criticize the iPhone, let me say, it is an excellent web browsing device and adequate for phone calls.

Now the criticism.

As a communication device, iPhone really sucks.

Nokia
Phone calls: check
Video calls: check
Share pictures online: check
Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik): check
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: check/check/check
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/check
Load videos to youtube: check
Many chat applications: check
Webbrowsing: check

iPhone
Phone calls: check
Video calls: not supported
Share pictures online: not supported
Share live video feeds to website right from phone: not supported
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: not supported/not supported/not supported
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/not supported
Load videos to youtube: not supported
Many chat applications: only on jail broken iPhones
Webbrowsing: check