Nokia is partnering with Facebook to launch a "lifecasting" feature that weds both the socnet and the mobile vendor's handsets.

The service would enable users to post locations and status updates from their phones to their Facebooks. It debuts in October on Nokia's touchscreen N97 mini, a handset particularly suited to the liaison because its home screen was created especially for application personalization via Ovi Store, the Nokia equivalent of Apple's App Store.

Nokia added that the Lifecasting component would eventually go beyond publishing status update to creating new types of communication patterns, like navigating to a friend or place, MediaPost reports.

"People want to bring their physical and online worlds together via the Internet," said VP Jonas Geust of Nokia N series. "The Nokia N97 mini is designed for this new social internet and to help navigate people and places. With lifecasting, the Nokia N97 mini and Ovi usher in the next chapter of personal and location-aware Internet."

For its part, Facebook has over 30 million active users on mobile phones. More than 150 wireless operators in 50 countries both promote and deploy its mobile offerings.

The socnet and Nokia first began contemplating a strategic integration earlier this year, when Facebook decided to become more aggressive about getting its services on mobile. But Nokia made aggressive acquisitions over the course of 2008 that indicated it was also interested in expanding its own online presence.