Nokia Lays Plan for More Web Services

Nokia revealed the motivated plan to go further than the cell phones as well as deeper in the world of the Internet services, where it might compete more directly with the Google, Apple as well as Microsoft.
The plan midpoint on the website which Nokia will now market as the "personal dashboard" in which users can also share the photos with the friends, buy the music as well as access the third-party services just like Yahoo's Flickr photo site.

The thought is to propose a single location where the people can now manage the contented, services as well as the contacts they accumulate while surfing Internet onto their phones plus PCs, said the Anssi Vanjoki, the manager of the Nokia's multimedia group, at Nokia World seminar in the Amsterdam.
It will offer the single sign on for services, so that people do not need to remember many log-ins as well as passwords on Web. Nokia is creating and desktop Ovi software in order to organize content not online.

Nokia has began talking about the Ovi, and 1 part of service is an updated version of the Nokia's mobile gaming stage, N-Gage Arena, is living this month. The service functioned in the past with the Nokia's mobile phone N-Gage is with game consoles, but company said it might almost immediately work with the other devices also.

The mobile games service is the start. Nokia said that the online music store will now follow, as well as will provide more details of the other services that it will offer. They comprise of mapping services, the video store as well as the photo service which allows users to upload the photos from the phone as well as link them to the maps, much like Google allows with the Picasa service.

"Ovi will allow people to access the social networks, community as well as content. It is the foundation from that we will expand Nokia in to new directions.

Nokia grasp more than third of world's mobile phone marketplace, plus it hopes that Internet enabled devices such as N95 will also become primary way for people to access the Web in the future. At the time when standard price of the mobile phones is declining, the online services can help it to build new business.

There are several challenges that include turning Ovi into the brand, which can compete with the online companies acknowledged challenges when answering questions after the speech that was webcast.