Bangkok--23 Feb--UK Communications
Nokia today reinforced its worldwide leadership position with landmark achievements for its services business and how they are delivering consumer delight with unparalleled solutions offerings on a single device for consumers
The company also announced its plans to start selling the new Nokia N900 in SEAP during March. At the event, Nokia demonstrated its suite of solution offerings to over 150 media and guests from around the region, and gave deeper insights into its new version of Ovi Maps as well as the inside story of Nokia’s digital design as part of its programme for the media over the 2 day event.
“Today we are ‘Connecting People’ on a scale unimaginable back when the mobile industry started. Our recipe for success has some pretty simple ingredients: delighting consumers. Yes, we are in more places, serving more people, with more great content and services. True, more than a million apps are being downloaded a day from our store; Comes with Music is now available in over 27 markets and the Ala carte Music Store in 33 markets; and every second of the day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, another person downloads our new Ovi Maps app. These are great achievements, but our goal is to delight hundreds of millions of consumers around the world — and we are well on our way,” says Chris Carr, Vice President of Sales, Southeast Asia Pacific.
“The benefits of global scale that Nokia brings to our valued partners such as our operator customers, developers, suppliers are unparalleled. None of our competitors currently offer the portfolio of service offerings including the world’s best maps, a unique music solution with millions of songs by international and local artistes, an integrated messaging solution with Instant Messaging and Push email, and much more on a single mobile device. This is the power of Nokia devices and Ovi services for the millions of consumers globally,” he added.
Nokia highlighted landmark achievements for its key service areas:
Location: Launched in late January, the new Ovi Maps features drive and walk navigation in 74 countries and 46 languages, as well as traffic information in many. All new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include this great service, at no extra cost.
- More than 3 million Ovi Maps downloaded as announced on 15 Feb in MWC
- More than one download per second, 24 hours a day; around 100,000 downloads a day
- Rich functionality and the best mobile maps coverage in the world
Music: Comes With Music grew to 27 markets with recent launches in Malaysia and markets in the Middle East. Comes With Music will be next available in Indonesia in second quarter this year. People who own a Comes With Music device can download as much free music as they want from Ovi Music and, unlike other online music services, can keep them on their device forever. Music downloaded from the Ovi Music ? la carte menu is also DRM-free.
- Ovi Music is in 33 markets, making Nokia the world’s most scaled global digital music provider
- The average person using Comes With Music downloads 500 free songs in the first few weeks of using the service, which would cost about USD600 from iTunes
- More than nine million tracks in the Ovi Music catalogue
Store: Launched in May 2009, multiple improvements have improved the browsing and search experience, leading to a significant increase in the number of downloads. According to a recent Evans Data report, Ovi Store is the store of choice for wireless developers in Asia Pacific. In 2010, Ovi Store will have more languages, billing support, improvements and of course, a lot more apps.
- More than one million downloads a day
- The number of people shopping on the store doubles every month
- Fully localized store in 18 countries supporting 30 languages, and serving 90 percent of Store visitors with their local language
- Integrated mobile billing from 60 operators in 18 countries
Messaging: Ovi Mail, a free email service especially designed for emerging markets has been extremely well-received. There are now more than 6 million Ovi Mail accounts created globally in just over a year after its launch. In the SEAP region, with highly populated markets and the lack of fixed infrastructure in many areas, Ovi Mail has been a tremendous success. This region makes up more than 30% of the Ovi Mail users in the world. Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam for instance, are amongst the top markets for Ovi Mail worldwide.
Working closely with operators, Nokia Messaging, Nokia’s push email service and IM, is now signed up with 8 operators in the SEAP region, across Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, and continues to gain good momentum.
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