Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.

"We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. "When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer. The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware software, is growing faster than even we predicted."

The success of the new version Ovi Maps is a key part of Nokia's strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. By leveraging its investment in NAVTEQ, Nokia has been able to remove the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians and is quickly activating a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services.

"This is great news for our 3rd party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps," continued Anssi Vanjoki. "For the operators too there is a growing opportunity to sell more data-plans and a complete navigation package to existing and new customers."

As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were: China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain. The top five most popular Nokia devices installing the download were: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N97, Nokia 5230 and Nokia E72.

"There is a huge appetite for GPS navigation on mobile phones. We estimate there were already 25.9 million people actively using GPS navigation on their mobile phones at the end of 2009," said Chris Jones, VP & Principal Analyst at research firm Canalys.

From next month, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps, pre-loaded with local country map data, with high-end walk and drive navigation and access to Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.

Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with car and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries. There are more than 6000 3D landmarks for 200 cities around the world. Lonely Planet and Michelin guides have information on more than 1,000 destinations globally.

Labels: Maps, Nokia, Nokia Ovi

Nokia Beta Labs today introduced S60 setup support for Ovi Mail. The Ovi Mail Setup application is available for a wide range of S60 devices (see Download and Installation for supported devices).

The setup application allows you to sign-up for an Ovi Mail account directly from your S60 device. If you already have an Ovi account it will provision Ovi Mail and configure the email client on the device. And it installs an icon in the Installations folder for easy access to Ovi Mail. This is not an email client. You will have to continue using the existing email client on your device. If you’re already successfully using Ovi Mail on your device you don’t need to install this.


Nokia Beta Labs also launched an update to their webmail interface. The navigation have been simplified on the left and it has been made more consistent from page to page. 4 additional languages have been added to Ovi Mail which includes Thai, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Finnish.

For more information visit https://mail.ovi.com.

Labels: Nokia Ovi

Today, Nokia announced that Nokia Ovi Suite has reached version 2.0 Beta, bringing together “only the essential features from Nokia’s past and present desktop applications.”



Compatible with more than 100 Nokia S60 and S40 handset, Ovi Suite 2.0 Beta lets you do the following: transfer various content between your phone and PC; register to Ovi and upload/share photos and videos or download maps; update your phone’s software.

In time, Nokia intends to replace the Nokia PC Suite with the Nokia Ovi Suite.

To download Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0, head on over to the Nokia Beta Labs website.

Labels: Nokia, Nokia Ovi