Nokia Download!, originally Nokia Catalogs, was a mobile application for

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devices that allowed access to digitally distributed media content. Catalogs/Download! came preloaded on most

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smartphones from Nokia (from 2006), as well as some later

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feature phones. Most of the content was paid. 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

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, Jamster and Yahoo! Go. In June 2006 Nokia announced the Nokia Content Discoverer and signed deals that brought content from

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and others to the Content Discoverer. Nokia had earlier in 2004 attempted to create such 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

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in 2009.

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{{Nokia Nokia services Mobile software distribution platforms Symbian software

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