Finnish cell phone maker Nokia has opened up its media sharing site and games offering on Facebook.

Nokia's "Share on Ovi" media sharing service was opened as a Facebook application last month, and members of the network can play Nokia's "Reset Generation," linking cell phone and PC gamers allowing them to play against each other.

Nokia was talking to many large social networking firms, including Facebook, to ease access to their sites from Nokia phones.

Nokia made about 40 percent of all cell phones sold in the second quarter and is the first handset maker to move strongly into content provision, trying to bolster its margins by selling customers mobile music or applications like games.

Nokia wants to establish its new Ovi portal as an access point for a variety of web services, some offered by Nokia, some by other firms. It is set to invest billions in building up a strong presence on the Internet services market over the next few years as growth in the cell phones market cools.

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