By Kat Asharya | Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:55 am |
Nokia today announced that it will discontinue Ovi, its popular mobile file-sharing service, which allows customers to remotely access and transfer files from their computer via mobile phone.
The Espoo, Finland-based company sent an email to Ovi users Thursday informing them that service will be cut off October 1. The message also asked customers to uninstall the Ovi Files Connector from their computers.
The Ovi service has more than 1.5 million users, but it does not fit with the company's overall strategy.
"We want to explore broader horizontal offerings in mobile maps, email, messaging, media, social networks and music," said Tapani Kaskinen, a spokesperson for Nokia.
Nokia Suite, another file service, would allow customers to sync and transfer files between their phone and a computer, which will require a wireless Internet connection.
The Ovi remote file-sharing service is not the only service that Nokia will cut off in the future. The company began building its own Internet services in 2007 but has recently curtailed some of its unsuccessful offerings lately.
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