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Video: Nokia’s Ovi Store needs to fix the fundamentals

Categories: Nokia,
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 AM

Folks of The Really Mobile Project wanted to show just how horrible experience Nokia’s Ovi Store provides. To illustrate their hassle in buying a Twitter client, they made a short video above. As you can see for yourself, something’s fundamentally wrong with the Ovi Store. I’ve no doubts the issues raised will be fixed in time, but in the meantime saying “it sucks” is an understatement…

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • blaah

    Just used my phone to access Ovi Store… once opened I clicked search and searched for twitter and vóila, 1st result is Gravity. Clicked it, clicked Buy and stopped there as dont want to buy it right now

    Anyway, that video is full of just plain incorrect information and should be ignored as idiotic attempt to diss ovi store, from a iphone fan boy I assume

  • Mike

    OVI Store is complete crap.

    Apple have won this race and nobody is going to catch them!

  • Ben Smith

    So you didn’t purchase?

    …and you didn’t use customer support?

    …and you think your one search is more representative than the many people we spoke to (including Nokia’s own employees privately) who’ve had problems.

    …and your one search is also representative of when Gravity was dropped from the catalogue for a while and took days to get returned (acknowledged by Nokia publicly, by the way).

    OK. Sure.

    And before you accuse us of bias, why don’t you look at our site and see the fair and balanced coverage we give all the manufacturers.

    Ben
    The Really Mobile Project

  • RubberBoots

    I can assure you developers and publishers are as frustrated with OVI as end-users.