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Nokia challenges South African bloggers to get ‘app’d’

17 May 2011

Nokia challenges South African bloggers to get ‘app’d’

To help spread the word of South Africa’s leading bloggers, on these shores and across the globe, Nokia South Africa has launched a mobile application competition inviting bloggers - on any topic - to create applications for their sites using Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard

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Nokia and MTN Group Sign a Strategic Framework Agreement for the Middle East and Africa

11 May 2011

Nokia and MTN Group Sign a Strategic Framework Agreement for the Middle East and Africa

Nokia and MTN Group are pleased to announce signing of an agreement that will expand their strategic relationship to new key markets within Middle East and Africa MTN affiliates. 

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All-in-one business smartphone, the Nokia E7, arrives in South Africa

24 March 2011

All-in-one business smartphone, the Nokia E7, arrives in South Africa

Success is what you make it!

The highly anticipated Nokia E7 has arrived in South Africa.

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Nokia’s Ovi Store Downloads Hit 3 Million a Day as Developer Support Surges

18 November 2010

Nokia’s Ovi Store Downloads Hit 3 Million a Day as Developer Support Surges

More than 400,000 new developers in past 12 months; 92 developers each top 1 million download mark; 1.5 million downloads of Qt software development toolkits 

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Nokia’s Ovi Gains Momentum

01 October 2010

Nokia’s Ovi Gains Momentum

Nokia’s Ovi services gain momentum: 200,000 people sign up daily, Ovi Store downloads increase to 2.3 million per day and 70 developers surpass the 1 million download mark. The Ovi platform offers a range of services from Maps, Music, Messaging and new releases on the Ovi Store.

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Nokia Announces the imminent arrival of Ovi Music and Ovi Music Unlimited

06 August 2010

Nokia Announces the imminent arrival of Ovi Music and Ovi Music Unlimited

Nokia is rebranding its music services to fit under the Ovi umbrella. The Nokia Music Store will become Ovi Music and the tracks you download are now DRM-Free and in MP3 format. Nokia’s Comes with Music service has also had a name change and will become Ovi Music Unlimited.

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Pay for your favourite Ovi Store apps and content via SMS

08 July 2010

Pay for your favourite Ovi Store apps and content via SMS

Buying applications via your credit card is now a thing of the past. Consumers can now pay for content from Ovi Store with their pre-paid and cellphone contract credit via the newly released integrated SMS service. Visit http://www.ovi.com on your phone and get your favourite apps today.

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Pepsi adds refreshing content to Nokia's Ovi Store

26 April 2010

Pepsi adds refreshing content to Nokia's Ovi Store

Nokia today announced the launch of the Ovi Store football channel which is available on the South African Ovi and Music store.

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Size Does Count: Nokia unveils new N97 Mini in South Africa

24 March 2010

Size Does Count: Nokia unveils new N97 Mini in South Africa

Nokia has announced the long awaited arrival of the Nokia N97 Mini in South Africa. The Nokia N97 Mini is powered by a new Ovi Maps experience which makes searching and navigating even easier. 

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Nokia opens care centre in Woodmead Johannesburg

22 March 2010

Nokia opens care centre in Woodmead Johannesburg

On the 24th of March Nokia will open its flagship Nokia Care Centre in Woodmead Retail Park. The new Care Centre offers a holistic solution to customers from repair facilities for mobile devices to technical support.

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New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week

03 February 2010

New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week

Nokia has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.

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Nokia makes worldwide walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones

21 January 2010

Nokia makes worldwide walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones

Nokia today announced plans to make walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones as part of a new version of Ovi Maps, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps.

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Ovi Store by Nokia: Now open for business

16 July 2009

Ovi Store by Nokia: Now open for business

Customers can now visit store.ovi.com through their Nokia device browser, or via PC, to immediately begin downloading, personalising and making their Nokia devices smarter and more fun with applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, web and location-based services and much more.

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Nokia announces South African developer contest

16 June 2009

Nokia announces South African developer contest

Nokia today announced the South African Calling All Innovators competition, a contest for developers to create locally relevant, best-of-breed mobile applications for South Africans.

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