Stumbling start for Nokia's Ovi app store

NOKIA has this week launched its much-anticipated online software and content store, Ovi, however Nokia's answer to Apple App Store and iTunes wasn’t launched quite as seamlessly as the Finnish Mobile giant would have hoped.

In a statement on the Ovi blog the company claims that "extraordinarily high spikes of traffic... resulted in some performance issues", adding that more servers had been added to resolve the issue, and that users coming into Ovi from mobile handsets had been unaffected. We understand that the site has crashed on several occasions with users seeing an apology holding page in its place.

Ovi should be able to access more devices than its rivals and will utilise social networking and location-based information to suggest relevant mobile content.

Recently, Canada's Research in Motion (RIM), too opened its own app store, BlackBerry App World offering a variety of free and paid applications. Microsoft's Windows Mobile Marketplace and Google Android Marketplace are due to follow suit imminently.

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