Samsung Mobile Applications gets ready for Symbian S60 launch

While Symbian is generally best associated with Nokia, history proves that Samsung has had a pretty fruitful relationship with the operating system as well. In fact, it's looking to beat Nokia at its own game by launching an S60 App Store first. Samsung Mobile Applications, which already has a website up, is expected to initially focus on providing apps to Symbian S60 users in the UK, and just in case you were curious, "there is no initial outlay or ongoing costs associated with marketing or hosting your product on the storefront and freeware is distributed at no cost to the developer." Reportedly, the storefront will be officially unveiled at Mobile World Congress with 1,100 applications ready at launch (for UK residents), and while details are vague, we're told the program will also support Windows Mobile and possibly other systems later in 2009.

[Via Symbian-Guru]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 5:12PM]

Nokia already have an AppStore: http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/

What a bunch of wankers.

[ALBGunner04 Posted Feb 3rd 2009 7:37PM]

Nokia also have a free App Store with user-posted apps. Nokia MOSH: http://mosh.nokia.com/

I actually use it, it's quite good at times. Glad Samsung is rallying more support for Symbian though. It needs to make a "comeback" if you will after all this Android, WebOS, and iPhone OS hype.

And out of curiosity, will apps that are designed for Samsung phones even have a slight possibility of installing and working on my Nokia N95? That would be kind of cool.