Focusing on the development of the Windows and Windows Phone developer community, Microsoft does not forget that there are still many people who love classic Nokia phones. And if you still use one of these devices and / or develop applications for them, we have good news for you.

Despite the fact that the Nokia Store will soon be closed, this does not mean that the developers will have no place to host the applications, and the users will not have to download them. Starting in the first quarter of 2015,
Opera Mobile Store will replace the latter as the default app store for Nokia phones and smartphones on a number of platforms.
This means that from the beginning of next year, users visiting the Nokia Store from Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha and Nokia X devices will be automatically redirected to the Opera Mobile Store application store, where they will be offered access to tens of thousands of phone apps. Nokia.
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This announcement followed an agreement announced in August 2014, according to which Opera becomes the default browser on Nokia smartphones and phones running on the above platforms.
Microsoft hopes that switching to the Opera Mobile Store will allow millions of people using classic Nokia devices to still have a reliable way to get new applications, games and content.
Opera Mobile Store is one of the most famous and popular app stores in the world and can offer over 300,000 applications and games available in 13 categories. The popularity of the service is indicated by high attendance - approximately 200 million unique users per month from 196 regions of the world.
The above means that the Opera app store provides developers with a good audience reach for distributing apps. Like Nokia Store, the new store will allow developers to publish both free and paid apps for both local and global markets.

It is expected that with the transfer of users from the Nokia Store to the Opera Mobile Store, the latter will enter the top three largest app stores in the world in terms of downloads.
Opera Software invites developers to publish their applications now in the Opera Mobile Store, and Microsoft fully supports the Oslo company in this call. In the near future, you can expect more information from Microsoft on how to do this.
In the meantime, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the detailed
Q & A and create a
developer account .
When the Opera Mobile Store is fully operational in the first half of 2015, the Nokia Store will be completely closed.
At the end of this post, I would like to thank everyone for their efforts to create great applications and wish them great success on the new site. Stay with us.