“When everyone has it, why not us ??” says Samsung, and hence following the latest trend in mobile world, Samsung has its own application store now. The application store is all set to come up on September 14th for British, French, and Italian Omnia and I8910 HD handsets, later coming to the Omnia II and OmniaLITE as well as users in various other nations.
Samsung App store will initially go live with around 300+ applications, and has some big names behind such as Electronic Arts, Capcom, Gameloft, and TAITO
Samsung Omnia as we all know is a symbian s60v5 handset, and therefore practically all applications supporting S60v5 platform must automatically get compatible for Omnia too, except some application explicitly certified only for Nokia handset ( eg: Nokia Ovi maps ) . Symbian used to be very popular platform for application building and you have variety of range of application. Samsung has placed touchwiz UI over symbian platform to provide the widgety homescreen.
Unlike Nokia, Samsung app store might turn up only with applications. However, I am not sure whether Samsung actually needed an app store or its just the follow of trend, after all they dont have that many compatible phone in their portfolio. Quite possible it will be full of Java based application.
So guys if you own any Samsung phone, go ahead and bookmark samsungapps.com
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