Nokia has done a new move, i.e. they associated with Lottomatica, a payment network which is very well disseminated in Italy, for allowing people to pay its services, like turn-by-turn navigation on Ovi maps, or tunes from the music store.

Given that several people still fears for credit card internet payments, or has no credit card at all, this might be profitable for the Finns, in a country like Italy with a high number of mobile phones, and also shows how much they're moving out of hardware and into services.


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