Another interesting point is that some of the same exact apps on the Ovi Store are priced differently from those at Apple’s App Store. Case in point, Shazam, the app that allows users to identify music by pointing their phone at it. Shazam is currently free at the App Store, but costs $4.99 on the Ovi Store. A Shazam spokesperson said the eventual plan was to charge for all of their mobile phone applications, to bring all of the pricing across the various stores in line with each other. Could this be a hint of things to come for other apps as well? There certainly is regret amongst some developers and companies who’ve built apps that they didn’t begin charging from the start, including newspaper USA Today. How easy it will be to begin charging consumers for something that was initially free remains to be seen, but perhaps not impossibly if the apps are significantly improved.

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Meanwhile, Nokia says downloads at the Ovi Store have “exceeded” their expectations at its Ovi Store. After a rocky launch it seems to have worked out a lot of the initial kinks and added much more content, including several popular apps that were conspicuously missing from launch, including a Facebook one.

More Ovi Store stats:

—The service now supports more than 75 Nokia handsets, including its flagship N97, on which the store is pre-loaded.

—Carrier billing is now available with 27 carriers around the world.

—The store has been localized in 5 different languages. The top countries where the most downloads are coming from are in alphabetical order Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and the US. (Nokia did not break them out individually in order of the most downloads).