Top 10 apps from Ovi Store in 2010

This year has been very dynamic for the Indian telecom sector, especially for handset and value added services companies. We saw the rise of several local handset players such as Micromax, Karbonn, Lava etc, who gave a major push to the usage of mobile applications in the country through their feature-rich low cost handsets.
The largest handset player in the country Nokia also added a suite of new and innovative applications to its portfolio, thus giving a better variety of apps to its users. Since we are talking about the year 2010, we have listed down the top 10 free mobile applications from Ovi Store that became very popular this year.
Opera Mobile 10.1
This is the latest version of Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and is twice as fast as the previous version. It comes with speed dial, tabbed browsing, geolocation and Password manager. It also allows for greater speed when downloading pages, zooming and panning.
Snaptu
This is a social networking application that includes all mobile essentials such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, News, Weather, Sudoku etc in one place.
Opera Mini Web Browser 5.1
The new version of Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90 per cent before it is downloaded, giving faster page loads and reduced data costs. It also optimises content allowing you to view entire webpages on small screens.
Bounce Boing Battle
This arcade game is for two players each having a mobile device. You need to bounce a ball back and forth between two devices by drawing collision lines into the game area and score points by delivering the ball into your opponent’s goal.
Fring
This social networking application allows you to make free video calls and voice calls and do live chat with your friends on popular social networks such as Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Twitter etc.
Need for Speed Shift HDThe car racing game lets you tear through the streets of Chicago, Dubai, Italy and London in 24 street and pro-racing events.
TuneWiki
The TuneWiki’s social music player shows real time, subtitled lyrics as you listen to music, watch music videos, or stream songs through Shoutcast radio. Translated into over 40 languages, you can also search for lyrics to over 2.5 million songs. You can also find the most popular music on the app’s top 50 charts and music maps.
Sports Tracker
This application helps you in keeping track of everything from calories burned while running to your average cycling speed over altitude. You can also get maps, time and distance calculators, step count and even heart rate when you use a compatible HR belt. All data is stored in a diary.
Romplr
The music remix application allows you to make your own version of all new and old songs, with new mixkits added weekly. You can also post your mix on Facebook and on romplr.com.
Socially
This application allows full access to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn from one place on your Nokia phone. You can sync friend’s profile photo with phone contacts, add Facebook birthdays to phone calendar and receive social updates as push notifications.