Ovi Store to offer mobile video, N-Gage games

Nokia will introduce new mobile video efforts in tandem with its forthcoming Ovi Store application storefront, although the handset giant adds it does not plan to premiere a dedicated feature film service like rival Samsung [1]. "Now that the Ovi Store is coming we can put video content there," Nokia's head of entertainment business Tero Ojanpera said in an interview during this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. "Movies will be part of the offering but this kind of a full-fledged video store [is] not in our roadmap." Ojanpera adds that Ovi Store will also market N-Gage mobile games, with an emphasis on casual titles like puzzle games, although Nokia will maintain N-Gage as a separate sales channel. "We'll make those N-Gage games, from the discovery point of view, available through the Ovi store," Ojanpera said. "What we are trying to do with the Ovi Store is, rather than having all these different channels for discovery, we'll move more and more under this Ovi brand and umbrella." Nokia will launch Ovi Store in May.

For more on the Ovi Store plans:
- read this Mobile Entertainment article [2]

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