Nokia Ovi Store serves over a million downloads a day

Posted on 29 Jan 2010 at 11:00

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia announced during its fourth quarter earnings call that its Ovi Store, a centralised application shop for Nokia phones which was released in May 2009, now serves more than one million downloads a day.

In December, George Linardos, vice president of media products at Nokia, said that download numbers on Ovi Store were growing 100 per cent month-on-month.

Hitting a million is undoubtedly a big milestone for Nokia and it equates to around 30 million a month. Unfortunately though, that pales in comparison to Apple's App Store, which went from two to three billion downloads in just three months, meaning that the App Store serves around 330 million downloads a month.

Nokia has also said that it is working on a new version of the store, although the company hasn't gone into detail on exactly what it will change.

The company is pretty upbeat about Ovi Store's future prospects though, as it managed to overtake the App Store in Asia and Latin America to become the most-used mobile application shop in those territories.

Author: Tim Smalley

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