The MIR 3.0 Ovi Store app is now live!

Come on! Mobile Industry Review is now live on the Ovi Store! Woo!

Last week I sat down for 20 minutes and created an Ovi Store application for Mobile Industry Review. It allows you to browse the MIR feed and the Mobile Developer TV youtube feed.

I did this using the all new Ovi App Wizard which is simply fantastic. It takes a series of RSS feeds that you supply, along with a logo and a few colours and — boom — creates a stand-alone Symbian mobile application. For free.

The wizard is an excellent piece of engineering.

In practice, you can actually have a rough application created in the App Wizard in about 20-30 seconds. However I flipped open Fireworks and got a bit creative with the logos to make sure I was entirely happy. I decided to make the application free — but I could have just as easily told Nokia to charge for it!

Once I’d created the app in the wizard, I then pressed ‘publish to Ovi’. And boom. Job done. A few days later I got a notification to say that my Ovi Publish account was active and that my first application was approved and live.

Get in!

I’ve already had 22 page views and 5 users! ;-)

(It only went live this morning)

So if you have a Nokia handset nearby, check out the app and see what you think. Here’s the direct url: http://store.ovi.com/content/36457

If you’d like to mobilise your content into the Ovi Store with the App Wizard, it’s literally a piece-of-simplicity. And free. Here’s that url: http://www.oviappwizard.com/

Excellent work, Nokia!

About Ewan

Ewan is Founder and Editor of Mobile Industry Review. He writes about a wide variety of industry issues and is usually active on Twitter most days. You can read more about him or reach him with these details.

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  • http://www.rjlawson.com ric

    But if there was a decent RSS reader, there'd be no need for 100 different apps. It is quite cool though.

  • deebr

    According to Ovi Store:

    “Sorry, this item is not available for the Nokia N97 mini. “

  • Shawn

    It says it's not available for the N97

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    Oh no!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    Ahhhhh!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    Nice one Ric!

  • http://www.seoconsult.co.uk Mack

    Great application Ewan but Shawn says that it is not available for N97.Do you have any idea for it?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    I'm going to find out about this…

  • Ew4n

    Shawn, Nokia reckon it 'should' work — do you see it in the store?

  • ali

    Ewan, did you now how to add twitter feed in a Oviappwizard application?

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