Nokia seems to be converging all its services under one roof so that they can be accessed from a single user ID which Nokia says will be your new Nokia account.
This marks a gradual shift for the company from being only a mobile phone manufacturer to a service provider. Most of these services like Maps, File and music sharing started out as different companies but were eventually bought out by Nokia. Naturally, all these services had different membership systems. Now, once under one roof, it is plain annoying too use different IDs for each service. This is one of the reasons why Nokia is aiming for an unified account access system – a la Google.
Nokia has also launched an umbrella brand for all these services. Known as the “Ovi” (Finnish for Door), the website can be accessed on http://www.ovi.com
The services that can be availed currently include Maps, Nokia Music Store, Ovi Share, Ovi Files ad N-gage
There is also the new Chat application that is coming up. More on that here
To create your account, all you need to do is to navigate to http://accounts.nokia.com and sign up using an e-mail ID that works. Although I did notice that there were initial sign up and webpage access issues –hopefully these will be fixed soon.
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