OVI Store and globalization

Hi,
just want to ask other user's opinion about the situation accessing OVI-store from a foreign country.
At the moment the situation is like this: If you are in a foreign country, OVI-store redirects you to the local store. This means for example, if you are in China you will get a lot of Chinese apps, which is nice ..If I still could access my home country's store. But that's not the case.
Even when I access through VPN of my home country the home store and send a link to my telephone, I cannot download the apps, as the store tells me that this software is not available in the local countries store.
This means,ALL travelers or business men, who are in a foreign country for vacation, business or residence cannot use the OVI-store. But these are the people, who are most willingly to pay for apps. I guess NOKIA is missing a lot of revenue because of an old fashioned policy. However, if there are some legal issues for the access, then they should find an identification process, which confirms that the resp. Person is actually a citizen oif the country, which store he/she wants to access.
I am a real hardcore NOKIA user since 1991. But now NOKIA forces me out, as I cannot download any apps of my home-store. I have tried many Android and the Iphone 4. But I am not satisfied, most of them cannot do, what my N8 can do, either they don't have a FM-transmitter or the camera and/or the flash is bad or they don't have a HD out for TV . Also the multi-tasking of the IPhone is lame lame lame (apps are sleeping in the background, but not really running). I could go on and on with that list. All that said, I can only say, hardware wise the N8 seems to be unbeatable in the market at the moment. BUT WITHOUT APPS STORE????
How can I use it?
Does someone know, if for example my friend in omy home country could download the apps, then create a SD-CARD backup and upload that backup to me. This would be a lot of work and bother me and my friend but for the time being it could be a work around.
Anybody out there with a better IDEA?
TIA
RR

Hi,
I have the same problem, which is really annoying! I contacted nokia support some months ago for this problem - and got not even a reply!
For the last software update working out correctly I needed to wait until holiday in another country to let it run there. it was not possible for me to proceed from the chineses interface.
I only can access the chinese ovi story - and my n97 can not even show characters and I can not get a app for this here!
Do you have any experience with this?
And why should it not possible to be directed to the store for the country, which is selected in the user profle?
Really good to start this topic here. Thank you! I already started thinking, that it is a user caused problem.
Hope something will change soon.
by-by
diinchi

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