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We’re working on posting these stats a recurring basis and will have more details to share in the next several weeks.  In the mean time, here are the most current stats for Ovi Store, as of 30 June 2010.

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• 1.7 million downloads a day with more than 75% of downloads being apps and games
• Active users from more than 190+ countries
• 85 operators in 25 countries support integrated mobile billing with Ovi Store
• The most active countries in alphabetical order are: China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and UK
• Offscreen Technologies has had more than 34 million downloads

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If you’re a developer I’d encourage you to watch this 6 minute video to get a sense of how easy it is to develop apps with the Nokia Qt SDK and how you can target both Symbian and Maemo devices – and MeeGo devices in the future.  Lucian Tomuta from our Forum Nokia team does a great job of showing how you can quickly get started with using the Qt tools and test apps with the built in simulator or directly on a connected device.

Want to try it out? Download the Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac (beta), and follow the 5 simple steps to get started.

We have some new stats for the top 10 performing devices, in terms of visits, for the top 15 countries for Ovi Store for the month of June.

There’s some good information available and here are some quick notes:

• Nokia touch (Symbian 5.0) comprise a majority of the top devices
• 5230 is one of the top devices in six of the top countries
• N900 is one of the top devices in five of the top countries
• The new C3-00 is one of the top devices in Indonesia

Below is all of the specific information for the top 15 countries.

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Having developed over 50 apps, games and ebooks for Symbian and Maemo devices, Finnish based Offscreen Technologies is seeing great success with Ovi Store – their titles have already been downloaded more than 34 million times in over 200 countries.

Offscreen specializes in high quality touch-optimized applications and they have developed an integrated development environment (IDE) for Nokia Symbian (5.0 and 3.x) GUI-based applications. Called Origo IDE, it allows developers to quickly write code and automatically create native Symbian Installer files, all made possible by leveraging the capabilities of Nokia’s Qt SDK.

Developed by the Russian based leading mobile game publisher HeroCraft Ltd, Farm Frenzy is a fun game that puts you in charge of managing a full working farm and is available in 10 languages.  Through the global distribution channels with Ovi Store, their game has been downloaded over six million times in over 200 countries.

They developed the game with Symbian C++ and Java J2ME/MIDP and by doing so they can support over 100 different Nokia devices, including Nokia Symbian (5.0 and 3.x) and Series 40 devices. Read more about their success with Ovi Store.

Based in the Netherlands, Lunaforte is seeing success with their fun mobile apps and casual games in Ovi Store with their 20 titles being downloaded over six million times in more than 200 countries. They have a wide range of titles including casual games like CubeTouchXXL, reference apps like Life Expectancy Calculator and an officially licensed sports simulation app Premier League Darts™ 2009.

With the global distribution Ovi Store offers, Richard Hazenberg, CEO of Lunaforte said “The uptake on the Ovi Store has been quite impressive to say the least.” Read the rest of their success story to learn more about Luanforte and their apps and games.

Playlist DJ from Syntonetic Inc. is one of our most recent success stories from Ovi Store having over one million downloads in more than 200 countries.  Their free app allows users to create instant, randomized playlists based on the users’ moods or favorite song, using a cloud-based technology called Moodagent that Syntonetic created. Moodagent decodes the unique properties within each song – the mood, emotion, tone and tempo and with more than 25 million songs already profiled and more being added each day chances the songs you own are already covered.

You can download Playlist DJ for your Nokia device- 20 different Nokia devices are supported including all of our touch devices.

There was a good article today in Fierce Developer where they interviewed Valtteri Halla, Director of Nokia’s MeeGo effort, about his thoughts about Nokia’s MeeGo to take on Android, iPhone.

He talks about the vision of the MeeGo platform, positioning of MeeGo and Symbian and where MeeGo may be in two to three years.

When asked about fragmentation between Symbian and MeeGo, Halla says:

“No, we aren’t worried about fragmentation. Although it’s true that Symbian and MeeGo are different platforms in their own right. Both are different platforms. But we’re both using, in Symbian and MeeGo, similar technologies as we go forward, and the APIs are based on the Qt developer toolkit and API, and the Qt SDK, so that provides a really broad basis of commonality between the two platforms. So application developers can download the Qt SDK, create applications, and then have some of those running even as such on both platforms. … Qt is providing a fair degree of commonality.”

We’ve heard many developers ask about Nokia signing Symbian apps that are published to Ovi Store and I’m happy to announce that starting yesterday we’ve opened up a public beta for Ovi Publishers to have their Symbian apps signed for free by Nokia. This applies to apps written with Qt, Symbian C++, and Adobe Flash Lite and to be distributed through Ovi Store.

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