Download mobile applications from OVI using your computer

Many of us are using Nokia smartphones. Nokia users can download applications from OVI. These applications are very useful and most importantly they are safe to use. But, you must have noticed it is not possible to download applications without your handset and sometimes you may want to download them from your computer. With firefox web browser it is very easy to download those applications. All you have to do is install an add-on and configure it.

To do so, just go to Tools > Add-ons and search for an add-on named "User Agent Switcher"  and install it. Restart your browser.

Now, it is time to configure it. You will find an option in Tools of your browser named "Default user agent". Place your mouse there and you will see some pre-configured user agents (like iPhone, Internet Explorer etc). I will show how to configure your mobile phone by an example of Nokia e63.

Suppose you have a Nokia E63. Now, go to this link and press expand all on the right side of the page. You will see an entry

Example User Agent header

Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE63-1/200.21.012; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

Now, go to Tools > Default User Agents > Edit User Agents. Press New > New user Agents. In description write E63 and in user agent paste found in the example user agent header

Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE63-1/200.21.012; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

Erase all other data and save it. Now, you can easily switch to Nokia e63 by clicking in the e63 found in the Tools > Default User Agent.

To download applications go to http://store.ovi.mobi/. Don't forget to switch your agent before visiting.