Nokia buddying up with the social networking crowd

Nokia is looking to firm up ties with Facebook and we don’t mean by carpet-bombing every Nokia user on the planet with a friend request.

Nokia’s head of Internet services, Niklas Savander, has stated that Nokia is talking to a handful of the bigger social networking players, including Facebook, so that in the future Nokia users will have a much slicker, direct access to social networking sites from their handsets.

“The world is a mashup — we have to make sure we have the key things in the offering. Facebook is one of them,” Savander said.

Indeed one of the ways in which Nokia intends to do this is through its ‘Share on Ovi’ media sharing service, which was given the social networking treatment last month when it was launched as a Facebook application.

With the forecast for handset sales set to diminish, Nokia is obviously looking to other revenue streams to keep things ticking over, and online services seem to be as good a bet as any at the moment.

(Via Reuters)

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