Nokia is going to unify its Ovi and other online services using a single login system called Nokia Account. In theory you can already register your Nokia Account username on the official website, though the registration section seems to be down for maintenance right now so you may want to check back later (it did work yesterday and many have already registered). At the moment Nokia Account is only being used by a few services, most notably Nokia Chat, but eventually it will be used by the entire Ovi suite including Ovi Share, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music, N-Gage etc. We've mentioned this before in other recent AAS items, but a lot of our readers apparently still don't know about this unification, so we thought it deserved a bit more publicity.

If you're wondering exactly how the Nokia Account service will be implemented, there's an excellent help section on the Nokia Account website which answers most of the main questions.

One interesting little nugget: If you register for Nokia Account through the Nokia Chat application, you get given a username in the form username@ovi.com, which perhaps suggests that Nokia may start an Ovi e-mail service at some point in the future?