Nokia Gets Set For Eurovision
By Stephen Ebert on May 27,
 2010 at 00:00,

nokia-ovi-store-eurovisionThere's plenty of new and interesting apps over at the Ovi Store ready to be zapped straight to your Nokia smartphone. Among the newest include a new music player, an environmentally friendly game that's booth educational and fun to play and an app that lets you take part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Read on to find out more about the latest from the Ovi Store…

Among the Ovi Store app highlights this week are apps for listening to old music, rating new music, educating you about the environment while keeping you entertained and one to help you discover new things to do.

People's Panel

Type: Entertainment

Size: 0.97MB

The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 final takes place in just three days time. The People's Panel app lets you judge the best and most cringeworthy performances from the night with your mates. You'll even be able to peep the live global ratings to see who's scoring high or suffering the shame of a nil pointer. The ratings are just for fun, but it could in handy for predicting the winner later on.

Absolute 80s Player

Type: Music

Size: 0.27MB

This music playing app comes courtesy of radio station Absolute Radio lets Nok users listen to classic songs of the 1980s. Download it to relive a time when musicians trousers had more leg room.

Climate Mission

Type: Puzzle

Size: 6.19MB

A puzzle game from Nokia with an environmentally-friendly message behind it. But that doesn't mean it's not fun. It's games will have players recycling to score points, planting trees using your phone's touchscreen and guiding itty-bitty ants to collect plant matter. It's one of the best free Ovi Store games around. Check out out Climate Mission review to see what we thought of it.

Microsoft Communicator

Type: Business

Size: 0.86MB

A business app letting you instant message colleagues within your company, view your company directory and find out the availability of your colleagues - handy for plotting your lunchtime escape from the boss.

Own Voice

Type: City guides & Maps

Size: 0.47MB

Swap that tired sounding robotic sat-nav voice for your own cheery tones with Own Voice. With it you can create your own direction giving voice instructions to share with friends and family, taking backseat driving and plonking it high atop the dashboard.

Nokia Point and Find

Type: Entertainment

Size: 1.44MB

Nokia Point & Find is an augmented reality browser for compatible Nokia devices letting you dissever local amenities and services by pointing your phone at tagged objects. Use it to discover new things to do, places to see or find out what time the last train departs.