The world's top cell phone maker Nokia plans to build social-networking technology acquired with U.S. firm Twango into its key S60 software, a company official said on Wednesday.
The move will enable the company to bring technology faster to a wide range of phones, while also helping it and other software providers add community-like features to mobile applications.
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"We are going to integrate it with our S60 platform," Stephen Johnston, senior business development manager at Nokia, said in a speech to a trade fair in Helsinki.
When asked about social networking and the role of communities in Nokia's future he said: "It's really going to be the underlying layer, across everything."
Nokia's S60 software platform is used extensively in Nokia's lineup of mid- to high-end phones, but also in advanced handsets of LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics.
Its closest rival is Microsoft's Windows Mobile.
