The store, called ‘Ovi', will allow consumers to download various applications, as well as videos and music. Nokia will take 30% of all revenue, with developers receiving the remaining 70%, as announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Ovi Store is expected to open in May in certain regions, with a wider rollout over the following months.
Nokia and T-Mobile also announced plans to promote together their widgets, applications and other content. The customer can browse and download widgets from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia's Ovi Store using T-Mobile's web'n'walk widget platform. The partnership products will be available during the second half 2009 on mass market Nokia Series 40 platform based phones.
Mircosoft also unveiled plans for an application store, called Windows Marketplace. It follows last week's announcement that the computer giant was to open a series of branded retail stores, in order to win back some of the ground lost to Apple. Microsoft said the ‘purpose of opening these stores is to create deeper engagement with consumers and continue to learn firsthand about what they want and how they buy'.
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