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Nokia announces new app partnerships at CTIA: Exclusive PGA Tour, ESPN, Groupon, more

May 8, 2012 9:36 am by Kip Kniskern | 6 comments

In New Orleans today, at the CTIA Wireless conference, Nokia announced a number of partnerships bringing a number of high profile apps to Nokia and Windows Phone, some of them exclusive at the start.

The Windows Phone Marketplace currently has about 80,000 apps, but lacks some of the top line apps developed for the iPhone and Android. Nokia is setting about to change that, lining up new apps like the ones announced today, and contributing top line apps of their own, like Nokia Drive and the Nokia City Lens beta app that was just announced.

The new apps span across a diverse set of categories, from sports to games to news and finance, entertainment, lifestyle, and productivity. Here’s a quick rundown of what was announced today:

PGA Tour: enhanced live coverage of PGA Tour events exclusive to Windows Phone for one year
ESPN: Sports scores on Live Tiles, additional sports coverage, and more, coming to the already exclusive (until May 2013) ESPN app
Angry Birds: Angry Birds Space is coming to Windows Phone, and Rovio is building a dedicated team to design and develop apps for Lumia and Windows Phone
EA: New games coming to Windows Phone include FIFA, Madden NFL, NBA Jam, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR®, Mirror’s Edge and Yahtzee.
Groupon: Exclusive to Lumia for 6 months, coming Summer 2012
Tripdots: An app to vehicle owners drivers optimize their driving behaviors to increase their MPG, etc., exclusive to Windows Phone for 6 months
PayPal: Coming globally to Windows Phone
AOL Entertainment Hub: exclusive to Nokia Lumia for 6 months
Time Magazine for Windows Phone: Coming to Windows Phone
Newsweek – The Daily Beast: uniquely designed for Windows Phone
Box: Another cloud file sharing app comes to Nokia Lumia this summer

As you can see, while there are a number of Nokia exclusives, all Windows Phone users will benefit from an impressive lineup of new apps coming to the platform.

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FremyCompany
Nokia is investing heavily on the platform. Really, we all have to thank them.
Mario Albertico
Expanding on @FremyCompany:disqus ‘s comment , can we all please write a thankful letter to Mr. Elop and his team?…their dedication is clearly strong and passionate. They’re doing everything right, and in hoping Windows Phone succeeds, we can at least show our appreciation. Getting all these app developers to rally with Nokia must have taken some work, especially with the exclusivity deals and getting big brands to finally jump on the WP platform.
http://www.facebook.com/robinvanveghel Robin van Veghel
Awesome Angry Birds :D, hope we get it for free like in Android :P or get it as a Gift like in Symbian version
- Jamie
  It’s only 0.99 cents in the Marketplace… along with many of the other Xbox titles that got reduced. I’m sure Angry Birds Space will be the same.
  - http://www.facebook.com/robinvanveghel Robin van Veghel
    Yeah, but for alot of people they can’t buy apps cause they don’t have a credit card or paypal. they should put the option to buy apps for microsoft points, like for the xbox
Jamie
Yay PayPal!!!!!!