Nokia has opened the doors of its Beta Labs once more and before any of the tireless boffins inside could even feel a draft, a new and interesting application flew out into the world for us all to poke with sticks.
It’s called Download! (surely the first thing to be updated here should be the slightly unimaginative name, you wouldn’t call a new Nokia music store, Nokia Music Store, oh wait!) and essentially it is a client that through the somewhat amorphous currency of banner ads can pay for and deliver content to your phone.
So to say it more simply it is an ad-funded download client. The app is available now and all of the content that can be accessed via it is currently free. Worth checking out then.
(Via Nokia Beta Labs)
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> all of the content that can be
> accessed via it is currently free.
Ummm.. Actually, not all content is free. As we wrote in the web page: “please note that not all content in Download! is free during this beta test period”
The long-term intent, however, is to subsidize downloads with advertising.