So I’ve been a big user of the Ovi Store lately.  It has come a long way in the last few months and I’m very keen on it.  But while I was in Barcelona a few months back I had a meetings about the Ovi Store and voiced my frustration that I couldn’t purchase handsets from it.  I said how silly it was and I thought they were missing out on an untapped market.  Some people don’t have computers and some (like me) don’t have shops to visit to purchase Nokia handsets.  Then it happened…

Last week I was on top of the world.  I had a great day and I was thinking it was time to get a brand new white Nokia E72.  So I actually (knowing it wouldn’t be there) opened the Ovi Store app on my E71 and searched for the E72.  Of course it didn’t appear.  It didn’t even give me a link to go and buy the phone from the Nokia website.  Seriously Nokia, there needs to be a link that appears if I search for any of your phones that will shoot me off to give me a chance to purchase the phone.

So Nokia missed the boat on me.  Sunday morning I was in a bad mood about an email and when I thought about it I was in no mood to spend the money to purchase and E72.  If it was only possible for me to buy the phone somehow via the Ovi App Store they would have made a sale.  And I know I’m only 1 person but how many people do they lose out on in a day/week/month because they can’t buy from their phones?

Now I also know some people will say, “I don’t want a $300-$400 phone on my phone bill”, fine, ask me for a credit card.  I don’t mind.  I’m used to shopping on line and I don’t find my phone to be any less secure then my computer.

I don’t think any of the mobile phone app stores sell handsets and I just don’t get it, not at all.  I can imagine someone dumping their phone in the sink accidentally (I didn’t say toilet because I wanted to be classy) and killing it.  People can’t live without their phones so I would imagine them borrowing a friends phone and buying a new one on the spot, no questions asked.  So Nokia, let’s get the show on the road, it would have been nice to have purchased the E72, but I’ll have to live with my old E71 a little longer.