Microsoft has announced that the Opera Mobile Store will become the default app store on Nokia feature phones, as well as on Symbian and Nokia X smartphones. Nokia Store, also known as Ovi, will be rejected at the same time.
The press release announcing the closure of the Nokia Store came out immediately after Opera Software and Microsoft entered into a cooperation agreement.
Starting from the first quarter of 2015, owners of Nokia Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha and Nokia X devices will be automatically redirected to the Opera Mobile Store when trying to visit the Nokia Store.
The transition process is expected to take three months. After that, the Nokia Store will be closed.
The Pocketgamer resource assumes that as a result, the Opera Mobile Store will become the third largest app store after the App Store and GooglePlay.
“We continue to sell and support classic Nokia devices – they are still popular in many countries,” said Rich Bernardo, head of mobile devices at Microsoft Corporation.
- The smartphone market has a lot to growNokia uploads apps to the Nokia Store without the permission of the developers
- Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest companies producing software for personal computers, game consoles, PDAs, mobile phones and others, the developer of the Windows operating system family.
The company was founded in 1975.