Finnish company Nokia has recently announced that they will start providing SNAP Mobile multiplayer games for download and purchase through its Nokia Content Discoverer on-device portal solution. The Nokia Content Discoverer is embedded with millions of Nokia devices based on S60 and Series 40 currently available in markets worldwide.

This kind of arrangement will give mobile gaming publishers and developers a global distribution channel... in English, more and more mobile games will be sold since getting them was made easy as 1-2-3 by Nokia.

In case you aren't familiar with the Nokia Content Discoverer, this feature that is unique to selected, top-of-the-line Nokia phones offers a collection of shopping mall “stores” or “catalogs” that gives mobile subscribers easy access to downloadable content from branded content providers, leading content aggregators and their mobile service provider. Which means that if you wanna try out a new mobile game, you need not follow a tedious step-by-step process, because it's all there, in one push of a button.

With the Nokia Content Discoverer, mobile subscribers are able to easily discover, download and purchase localized content, applications and services, including Symbian C++ applications for S60, Java games and productivity applications, logos and background images, ring tones and True Tones, video clips and files, full-track music and Flash content.

Beginning in the second half of 2006, connected multiplayer titles developed on Nokia’s SNAP Mobile platform will be available in selected markets through a dedicated catalog location to any user with a Nokia handset that features the Nokia Content Discoverer client. So far, nine Nokia babies are sporting the on-device portal, six more will follow suit by the end of 2006.