Just a couple of weekend links of interest. The Ovi Store publishing team has announced that application update notifications are coming this week in an update of its Ovi Store client, v2.8, initially for Symbian^3 phones only. Quote below, we'll cover this more when v2.8 actually appears. In other news, the folks at phoneArena have pitted the Nokia N8's camera against those in the LG Optimus 2X, the iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S II. Suffice it to say that the N8's unit acquits itself very well, but kudos to the feature compiler for the work that's gone into this detailed comparison.

From the Ovi Store Publishing blog:

"Users of S^3 devices will be able to review and apply updates to apps they’ve downloaded for Store. Ovi Publish is also enabling the following features: extraction of version numbers automatically and exporting to the clients.

After updating to Store 2.8, when the user launches the Store client and signs in, the client automatically checks if any of their downloaded apps have an update available.  If there are updates, the user will see a green flag in the corner of your screen by your “Account” tab.  Touching the flag will take the user to his account page where he can choose to update “All” or select individual apps.

This is one of the most requested features for Ovi Store. This feature will be rolled out initially to S^3 devices next week. App update functionality for other device family clients will be rolled out continually thereafter."

In addition, there are 'discovery' improvements in terms of suggested related applications. Watch this space for more, when the new client hits.