Nokia launching a Symbian app store at MWC?

Because you're not cool unless you've got an app store, Nokia is reportedly set to join the ranks of Apple, Palm, BlackBerry, Samsung, and pretty much everyone in opening a software portal for its Symbian OS. According to Mobile-Review editor Eldar Murtazin, the Finnish phone maker's already got it running and is testing behind-the-scenes, with a formal announcement to come at the Mobile World Congress. While we'll have to wait until Barcelona to find out with some degree of certainty, at this point we'd be more surprised to see a company not open up an online app shop.

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[(Unverified) Posted Feb 8th 2009 8:34AM]

im just so amazed that it took Apple launching an app store for everyone else to launch one. everyone else has had platforms that can run 3rd party apps for years, i just dont understand why they never thought to bring all those apps to one place. i mean it's easy enough doing a Google search for WinMo apps right now but a streamlined process seems like a no-brainer to me.