Nokia have announced that their Beta Labs are closing the online portion of the Mobile Web Server (MWS) product, launched some two and a half years ago, is closing at the end of this month. By allowing your mobile phone to act as a web server for the content it carried, MWS was an alternative ad-hoc style connectivity option for a number of users. Nokia have stressed that the local parts of the application will continue to work, and are reminding people that not all Beta Lab products have a happy firmware ending.

What will be interesting is what Nokia does with the code - while many people would just go "oh they're washing their hands of it" if they were to open source it, the community that has built up around the product may be able to do more with it. Will Nokia give them that chance?

More details on the Nokia Beta Labs blog.