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Nokia Download! , originally Nokia Catalogs , was a mobile application for Nokia devices that allowed access to digitally distributed media content. Catalogs/Download! came preloaded on most Symbian S60 smartphones from Nokia (from 2006), as well as some later Series 40 feature phones. Most of the content was paid.

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5-592: The Catalogs/Download! store had access to applications, tones, videos, graphics, games, and news content from aggregators Nokia Software Market , WidSets , and third-parties like Handango , Jamster and Yahoo! Go . In June 2006 Nokia announced the Nokia Content Discoverer and signed deals that brought content from Electronic Arts , Warner Bros and others to the Content Discoverer. Nokia had earlier in 2004 attempted to create such

10-474: A system with Preminet, an end-to-end global sales channel. The Content Discoverer is effectively an evolution of it. Both the names Catalogs and Content Discoverer were soon replaced solely by "Download!". A web client PC equivalent called Nokia Download Store was piloted under Nokia Beta Labs and was available from June 2008. Download! was replaced by the Ovi Store in 2009. WidSets WidSets

15-479: Is a combined application and service that is similar to what a widget does on a desktop PC, on a wide variety of mobile phones. WidSets are micro-applications intended to perform a single function. WidSets, like widgets , generally rely on some kind of web service to provide information to the user. WidSets was officially launched in October 2006. It worked on all Java MIDP 2.0 phones, including non-Nokia ones, and

20-726: Is a mobile runtime technology, and a mobile service powered by the said technology, based on the Java MIDP 2.0 platform , from the Finnish mobile company Nokia . It is both a widget engine and a widget deployment service where mini-applications called widgets can be uploaded to WidSets servers to be compiled and then automatically deployed to MIDP 2.0 compliant mobile phones running the WidSets client software. The widgets are created using Extensible Markup Language (XML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Helium scripting language . Widsets

25-467: Was regarded as a mobile counterpart to Netvibes . The current version as of May 2008 is version 2.0.0 for both the client and the SDK. In June 2009, Nokia announced that WidSets is no longer developed, having been replaced by the umbrella Ovi Store . Example widgets included currency converters, news headlines retrievers and weather forecast information. This article about wireless technology

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