It’s hardly surprising that many are using Nokia’s Ovi Store for mobile applications considering Nokia is the biggest mobile phone maker in the world, so naturally they have loads of handsets out in the public arena that will have access to the Ovi Store.
However according to an article over on Cellular News, Nokia has said that 200,000 users have now signed up for the Ovi Store and that 2.3 million mobile applications are being downloaded from the Ovi Store every day.
Furthermore, Nokia says that 70 publishers and developers have now overtaken the million downloads milestone for their Ovi Store content. Content publisher HeroCraft, which includes the mobile game Farm Frenzy has said they have received more than 10 million downloads, while Offscreen who is a developer of numerous touch screen applications has seen in excess of 45 million downloads.
The executive vice president of services at Nokia, Tero Ojanpera has said, “Today people discover Ovi through Maps, Music, Messaging, Store and Life Tools. With a new generation of amazing devices, like the Nokia N8, developers are looking at Ovi as a good business decision and a chance to innovate and create next-generation mobile experiences for our family of new Symbian smartphones.”