News has come through to us from Latest-Mobile, that the first access version of Nokia’s N-Gage platform, part of their new Ovi portal, has launched, gone live, and is now rocking people’s socks round the world.
At the moment, it supports the Nokia N81 and N81 8Gb, since that phone was always optimised to use Ovi (and N-Gage games, since it has dedicated game controls), but it’s a pretty safe bet it will be rolled out across other Nseries phones. To try out the First Access service, you need to download the software to your phone, and you can get that from Nokia’s N-Gage site.
Of course, it’s not just about games, as Nokia have also launched their very own social networking site called Share On Ovi, which lets Nokia users share photo and video content. So, think along the lines of Facebook, but for a Nokia mobile phone.
Interesting times are indeed ahead, and if the biggest name in the mobile business is going down this route, then it’s a fairly safe bet others will do the same. Sony Ericsson have their PlayNow music download service, the iPhone obviously has iTunes, and so on, so the big push towards a completely life appears to have started in earnest!
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