With every man and his dog now a member of Facebook, it doesn’t really come as a great big surprise that some of the mobile phone manufacturers want a piece of this rather large pie.
News comes in today that Nokia are in talks with Facebook to strike up a deal which will see a dedicated Facebook application available on their range of phones. Some people will already know that Facebook developed a special version for the iPhone and also allow access to the platform from standard mobile phone browsers, so i am unsure exactly how this may benefit Nokia other than the coolness factor?
Apparently Nokia may also be looking to buy a small share in Facebook, quoting an unnamed Nokia executive who apparently stated that “a partnership is in the works”. Whilst Nokia’s share will probably be nowhere near as large or expensive as the deal penned between Facebook and Microsoft, it will still be interesting to see what new features they may try and bring to the mobile platform.
As you can see from the graph below Facebook has been growing like crazy over the past year or so and has firmly kicked MySpace into touch. Expect to see a lot more announcements around mobile facebook’ing in the future!
