I’ve had some time to play around with the Ovi Store since it launched yesterday, and while I think Nokia have done a pretty good job overall, there’s a few quirks which make the experience less than what it could be. I also think there are some serious bugs which they are in the process of ironing out. Again, would have been nice to have this sorted before they flipped the switch, but such is life.
One issue, that is only relevant on the website, is when you are being shown content based on a particular device. Now in principle this the best idea be cause you really only want to see content that is going to be able to loaded onto the phone that you have. Problem with the Ovi site is that when you go there fresh, and not logged in with your account details, the site isn’t sure what phone you have. You can select the phone from the interactive banner on the homepage, but by default this is set as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic device. This is a great device, but is hardly widespread in the market compared to the other devices on offer (e.g. N95 8GB, 6300), so you actually are shown less content than what you normally would (because there’s not as much touch-screen content as there is for regular keypad devices).
This is of course only relevant on the website because when using the mobile site or the mobile client, it knows what device you’re browsing on.
So if you’re on the Ovi website and you’re not seeing much content, or can’t find a piece of content that you’ve followed a link to, then head back to the homepage, and scroll through the devices (watch the content change on the homepage as you do that) until you get to the option for “Any Phone”.
