Deals
Nokia to Drop Ovi Mobile-Services Brand by End of 2012
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Nokia Oyj plans to drop the Ovi brand name from its services by the end of 2012 after the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones agreed to shift to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 as its main smartphone platform.
The company’s mobile services, including maps, music tracks, e-mail, contacts backup and downloadable applications for phones, will be known in future simply as Nokia services, Chief Marketing Officer Jerri DeVard said on the company’s Nokia Conversations website. No further changes to the services are planned, the Espoo, Finland-based company said.