Nokia Download!, originally Nokia Catalogs,
was a mobile application for
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finlan ...
devices that allowed access to
digitally distributed media content. Catalogs/Download! came preloaded on most
Symbian S60
The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) was a platform (computing), software platform for Mobile app, smartphones that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. It was created by Nokia based on the 'Pearl' user interface from S ...
smartphones from Nokia (from 2006), as well as some later
Series 40
Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. It was one of the world's most wi ...
feature phones. Most of the content was paid.
The Catalogs/Download! store had access to applications, tones, videos, graphics, games, and news content from aggregators
Nokia Software Market,
WidSets, and third-parties like
Handango
Handango was an online store selling mobile apps for personal digital assistants and smartphones headquartered in Irving, Texas.
History
Handango InHand was founded in 1999 by Randy Eisenman. It is an app store for finding, installing, and b ...
,
Jamster
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and
Yahoo! Go
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Services include sending/receiving ...
. In June 2006 Nokia announced the Nokia Content Discoverer
and signed deals that brought content from
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted th ...
,
Warner Bros
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and others to the Content Discoverer.
Nokia had earlier in 2004 attempted to create such a system with Preminet, an end-to-end global sales channel. The Content Discoverer is effectively an evolution of it. Both the names Catalogs and Content Discoverer were soon replaced solely by "Download!".
A web client PC equivalent called Nokia Download Store was piloted under
Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia phones beta labs is a service in which beta software for Nokia smartphones are available for public download. The service was originally launched as Nokia Beta Labs in 2007 by Nokia for S60-based Symbian devices, and later for the company' ...
and was available from June 2008.
Download! was replaced by the
Ovi Store
Ovi by Nokia ( fi, ovi, translation=door) was the brand for Nokia's Internet services. The Ovi services could be used from a mobile device, computer (through Ovi Suite) or via the web. Nokia focused on five key service areas: Games, Maps, Media, ...
in 2009.
See also
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MOSH
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WidSets
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Handango
Handango was an online store selling mobile apps for personal digital assistants and smartphones headquartered in Irving, Texas.
History
Handango InHand was founded in 1999 by Randy Eisenman. It is an app store for finding, installing, and b ...
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Club Nokia
Club Nokia was a mobile internet digital distribution portal, similar to an App Store, operated by Nokia to provide special offers, paid-for ringtones, picture messages and game content directly to members. Following resistance from its mobile ope ...
References
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Nokia services
Mobile software distribution platforms
Symbian software