Nokia has been boasting its new Ovi Store is a huge success. Launched last year in a bizarre staggered release that saw the U.S. served after practically everywhere else worldwide, Ovi Store is Nokia's answer to Apple's App Store and similar efforts from Google Android and RIM BlackBerry.
According to Nokia's figures, the Ovi Store software is downloaded three million times every day, up from two million in September. That projects out to one billion downloads per year. To provide some perspective, 1.3 billion people worldwide use some sort of Nokia device, although not all of them can run Ovi Store, which is limited to Nokia phones introduced over the last few years (such as Nokia S40 and S60 devices).

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