Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

I don’t know why but I’m in a “Tell it as it should be” mood, so I’m going to voice my opinion once again.  And as usual it’s directed at Nokia, don’t take it personally Nokia, I really like you and want you to succeed and blow away the competition.  Now that that’s out of the way here it is.

The Nokia Ovi Store doesn’t always have the most current version of apps so when I download them I’m starting off not being up to date.  For example I downloaded Fring from the Ovi Store after a firmware update of my E71 and started to run the app.  I realized the app wasn’t up to date so I went to m.fring.com and got the newest version.  I also downloaded emoze from the Ovi Store and as soon as I got it set up it automatically checks for new versions and low and behold there was a new one.

Now I’m a bit of what you would call an extremist when it comes to cell phones but I do expect the part of the company that directly interfaces with the consumer on a day in day out basis (the Ovi App Store) should have the absolute newest builds within 24 hours after they are published on the companies own site.  It should be part of the agreement of putting your app in the app store that it is updated as the software is updated and in a timely fashion.  Otherwise just make the app store a link farm and send me to m.fring.com and m.emoze.com to download the app knowing it will be the freshest from the developers.

To be clear, I’m not laying the blame on the companies but on the Ovi Store itself.  This needs to be part of the deal to be allowed to have your app in the Ovi Store.  But the companies producing these apps could do a better job as well.

Ok, I’m done giving my constructive criticism for today.  Hope everyone has a nice weekend.