Nokia nowprovides its OviLifeTools, a setofinformationservicesfromweathertosport, tomore than 6m users of its handsetsinChina, India, IndonesiaandNigeria.
Jawahar Kanjilal, the global head of emerging markets for OVILifeTools, says abck in 2008 the company had decided to create a special set of services that impact daily life in emerging markets.
Nokia is adding to the list of global companies that is using the emerging markets as a test bed to discover new products and services suitable to those markets. ( IBM is another one where a need in India is driving global innovation for it.) It is doing this via its OviLifeTools, a set of mobile information and application services.