2 posts tagged “store”

Virgin Megastore, Hollywood
Originally uploaded by bdjsb7

This is the Virgin Megastore in Hollywood. I found out today the store is going out of business. Everything must go! They're even selling the fixtures.

The Virgin Megastore is located in very prime real estate on Hollywood Blvd sitting between the world famous Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Kodak Theater that is home to the Oscars. Millions of tourists walk by this store every year. It is the perfect location for a Nokia Flagship Store.

This location is an outdoor space that Nokia would prefer, similar to the Chicago and New York stores. It would get very high foot traffic and there's plenty of space for a Vertu room.

Look at the line in the picture. Imagine a similar line for when a big product launches. There's also lots of room on the front for signage and advertisements.

Plus its very convenient to the Los Angeles subway system. It would be very easy to get to the Nokia Plaza, Club Nokia and Nokia Theater at downtown's LA Live.

I signed up yesterday for Twango, Nokia's online image sharing site that is part of Ovi.  Its pretty neat, since it now supports unlimited uploads.

A few weeks ago, I signed up for the N-Gage Arena.  I'm testing out the beta.  The games are great.

If I lived in the U.K., I'm sure I'd be signed up for the Nokia Music Store.  Whenever a song pops into my head, I'd go to the online store and buy it.

There's a big problem with all these services.  You need a separate ID for each service.  There should be a single OVI ID I can use to sign into whatever service is available. 

This is a pretty big fail for Nokia's part to have these services get this far developed and not have them tied together other than being hosted on Nokia servers.

Nokia would be smart not only to tie together their Ovi services under one ID, but also bill them together as well.  Have a Music Store / Navigation / N-Gage Arena / Twango / etc. account all under the same roof for one combined price.