One of the largest Mobile communications company Nokia and mobile software company Cellity announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire certain assets of cellity. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Cellity is a small company of 14 people based in Hamburg, Germany. It produces a product called "Addressbook 2.0", which aggregates data from the usual social-networking services and presents an address book combined with messaging that fits in rather well with how Nokia sees mobile communications developing.

Nokia said it will acquire the cellity team to strengthen its competencies in the area of social networking. The company's current service will not transfer to Nokia and it will be discontinued. cellity currently offers a solution to collect and securely store users' contacts in one place.

Nokia demonstrated this almost a decade ago, with an address book that linked to servers based on the Wireless Village standard, showing how an address book could be so much more. But Wireless Village died and the idea never got developed, until now. The agreement is expected to close in the Q3 2009, subject to customary closing conditions. After closing, cellity staff will become part of Nokia's Services unit.

It seems likely that the static address book, as a list of ways in which an individual may be contacted, is not long for this world. So if Nokia are to complete, they need something like Cellity. Whether Nokia can make effective use of Cellity remains to be seen, but there's certainly potential to do so.