Got A Nokia Account Yet?

Nokia is converging all its services under one roof so that they can be accessed from a single user ID, which will be your new Nokia account.

This marks a gradual shift for the company from being only a mobile phone manufacturer to a service provider. While most of these services like Maps, File and Music Store were originally owned by different companies, they were eventually bought out by Nokia Originally, these services had different membership systems. With Nokia bringing all these services under one roof, it has decided to spare customers the inconvenience of having to use different IDs for each service. This is one of the reasons why Nokia is aiming for an unified account access system a la Google.

Nokia has also launched an umbrella brand for all these services. Known as the "Ovi" (Finnish for Door), the website can be accessed on www.ovi.com.

The services that can be availed currently include Maps, Nokia Music Store, Ovi Share, Ovi Files and N-gage. There is also a new chat application coming up. More on that on Nokia Chat Beta.

To create your account, all you need to do is visit http://accounts.nokia.com and sign up using a valid email ID. We did notice initial issues with sign up and webpage access, but hopefully these will be fixed soon.

source : http://www.techtree.com/