1 million Ovi Store downloads for Numo Solutions (SMS Preview)

Published by Rafe Blandford at 16:14 UTC, April 19th 2010

Numo Solutions, the developers of SMS Preview, have announced they have passed the 1 million download mark on Ovi Store. SMS Preview shows a preview of incoming text messages, in a bubble that floats above other screen content, for a user defined period of time. It provides an improvement over the built in 'new message alert', which only tells you that you have received a message. Numo Solutions say that SMS Preview is being used in more than 170 countries on 50 different types of handsets.

The news from Nemo Solutions demonstrated the quiet growth of Ovi Store this year and its ability, as a distribution channel, to reach wide range of geographic markets and handset types.

You can download SMS Preview, for free, from the Ovi Store.

SMS Preview is also available in a 'Pro' version, which adds the ability to take actions (e.g. reply or delete), directly from the preview. The 'Pro' version is also available from the Ovi Store at a cost of £3.

Numo Solutions have a number of other applications under development, including Auto Syc, which will provide a free phone back up solution.

From the press release:

"Working with Nokia has allowed us to reach the mass market with our applications in a truly global fashion in over 170 countries on 50 different types of handsets. The number of downloads we have been able to achieve in such a short time frame can be attributed to the reach that Nokia has, hence Ovi Store is an essential part of our distribution strategy," said Trond Ingebretsen, CEO of Numo. "We are excited to continue developing useful utilities like SMS Preview and bring new applications such as Autosync, a hassle free backup solution, soon to the Ovi Store."

 "SMS Preview is a great utility app that more than 1 million Nokia users are enjoying to make more of their devices," said Marco Argenti, VP and Global Head of Media, Nokia. "We look forward to more Numo utility apps inside Ovi Store that will continue to increase the functionality and ultimately value of Nokia devices to our users."

Numo Solutions joins a number of other application and companies in the '1 million Ovi Store club' including Digital Chocolate (games), Shazam, Polarbit (games), Ravensoft (utilities), MMMOOO (themes), Nimbuzz (IM application) and Nokia themselves (Ovi Maps).

If you're a developer and have been enjoying success on Ovi Store, or another distribution channel, please get in touch to tell us about it and we'll feature you on All About Symbian.

News Discussion

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Originally Posted by VoReason Hmmm, don't you find it funny that in all these PRs about the apparent success of the Ovi store, there are NEVER any figures about the number of PAID apps bought from the Ovi Store? Hmmm.

I may know the reason. For example, as every European developer, Symbian Geek guessed, Turkey (.TR) is one of the 6 (SIX) heavy users of Ovi Store and yet if you have a Turkish account, you can't BUY anything from Ovi Store. Paid applications won't even show up.

In contrast, Apple happily sells thousands of apps to Turkish users while they don't even set up a "music store", they know what kind of a dynamic market this is.

If there are developers who relies on Ovi Store, you are missing a smart phone market which has about 70% market share belongs to Symbian, for now. Unless people completely give up Nokia which I saw in many turkish comments. Ovi store itself became the reason why people gave up on Nokia, sad isn't it?

BTW; I am just hoping there isn't some real politically incorrect reason behind this "Don't sell to Turks" attitude. As they are really stupid to disallow Canadians to buy stuff too, I don't think there is some reason like that.

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