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Nokia has unveiled its attempt to try and replicate the huge success of the Apple App Store with its own mobile storefront, now called the Ovi Store.

They made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This move was an expected one as the rumors of their mobile apps store already started spreading last week.

Here’s how they are spinning it:

“Offering a range of content including applications, games, videos, widgets, podcasts, location-based applications and personalised content, Ovi Store will be available on S60 and Series 40 devices. The first device to include the mobile storefront on board will be the Nokia N97, set to launch in June. Meanwhile tens of millions of existing S60 and Series 40 devices will be able to take advantage of the store from May. Ovi Store is unique in its ability to target content based on where you are, when you’re there, why you are where you are and who else has downloaded similar content.”

Ovi Store will include "social discovery", which allows users to see what content is being used by their social network peers.  Those apps will then automatically be highlighted and made available for download onto their own devices.

Nokia, the #1 maker of mobile phones, expects the store to hit 300 million users by 2012. According to The Guardian, Nokia also said 70 percent of revenues from the store would go back to software developers.

As from today, content publishers and developers will be able to register here for the new Ovi Store, but they will only be able to upload starting next month.

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