Seems like that's all that people talk about nowadays. Nokia's Developer Summit opened yesterday in Monaco, with the theme "Creating tomorrow's technology". In addition to technology, Ovi Store was a story repeated many times. The store continues to integrate its varoius services into a mash-up experience, for example music and games can now be bought through the same channel. Also, many of the smaller start-ups acquired by Nokia over the recent years get their messaging, advertising, sharing, social networking, and cloud services integrated into Ovi Store.

Third party application developers can publish their content via publish.ovi.com, a self-service, web-based tool that provides any content provider or apps developers with an easy way to distribute and sell their mobile applications. In the event, Nokia announced the SDK for the upcoming N97, a multimedia device running Symbian software. Developers can now start to develop applications for this nice device. This SDK and tools for Nokia and Symbian can be downloaded fom Forum Nokia, or in the upcoming Symbian Foundation developer website.


Adobe and Nokia announced first 5 apps from their Open Screen project fund, a 10 million dollar fund dedicated for Flash apps developers announced last year. These first five are: MyFestival, by Little Big Ideas (Denmark): a guide for the Roskilde Music Festival with integrated LBS functionality, Golfbox, also by Little Big Ideas (Denmark): a golf companion to set tee times, check scores, and more, “Social Portfolio” (working title) by Tui Interactive (UK): a stock news and portfolio tracker application, Pocket Piano, by Better Day Wireless (US): a virtual piano player for touch devices, and Barking Seed by Breakdesign. Several more coming soon, promise Nokia and Adobe.

While Nokia is building their developer offering and store front, Symbian Foundation published the rest of their videos from CTIA. In the third episode, Lee talks about the foundations's plans to support companies like Nokia with putting up an apps arena. 

Applications stores were also mentioned as the #1 of 8 themes from CTIA. #2 was platforms, interestingly enough.

A new place for free Symbian apps also opened last week when Phoload announced new free applications for Symbian and S60 phones. The site currently has 59 different applications, but I assume more is coming with the uptake of new Symbian based devices from many vendors. If you can't find what you're looking for from Phoload, googling 'free symbian applications' brings an avalanche of results for sites filled with thousands of fun and useful applications.