T-Mobile teams with Nokia for integrated app store

T-Mobile announced it will collaborate with handset giant Nokia to introduce an integrated applications marketplace available via the operator's web'n'walk mobile web platform. According to T-Mobile, the marketplace will offer apps from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia's new Ovi Store, launched Monday here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The storefront will be available during the second half of 2009 on mass-market Nokia Series 40 devices--later in the current quarter, T-Mobile will introduce a revamped web'n'walk featuring a new widgets solution. According to the carrier, its web'n'walk subscriber base grew 53 percent in 2008 to 5.9 million, adding that by the end of last year, its mobile data traffic had tripled.

T-Mobile also confirmed its commitment to Google's Android mobile operating system, promising to launch new Android devices over the course of 2009, noting its development partners will include Huawei. The T-Mobile USA unit introduced the first commercial Android phone, HTC's G1, in September 2008.

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