Well, Valentine’s Day is over, but the memory of a sweet box of chocolates – each piece a little treat to behold – reminds me a little bit of looking at the home screen of Snaptu. Granted, Snaptu is more colorful that most chocolate candies, but each icon within the app vies for your attention with a “pick me, pick me” appeal.

So what is Snaptu? If you have yet to try it out, this mobile app offers one-click access to a suite of services for social networking and other day-to-day bits that, for many of us, have become a regular part of our mobile lives.

Many of the services are completely integrated with Snaptu, including links to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and Flickr for photos, Google calendar, Accuweather.com forecasts, news from Reuters, the Guardian (UK) and a variety of leading blogs. The app also includes updates about movies, has a built in dictionary, and even offers a Sudoku game with three different skill levels.

Additionally, Snaptu offers links to a variety of familiar web-based services – and maybe a few you haven’t tried before. Each icon is specific to a different service or site, and includes Yahoo, Nimbuzz, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, and even connections to Last.fm and OpenTable. The web links within the app are indicated with the the little arrow in the left-hand corner of those icons that are associated with external websites.

I’ve been using the app on my Nokia N97 mini, and it works beautifully in either portrait or landscape mode – in fact, the app lets you know that it is rotating the view, when you switch the way you are using the device. On Nokia’s touch-enabled devices, the icons are big and clear – and as I noted before, inviting. It is easy to add or remove icons for specific services if needed, and you can customize the layout of the buttons, too, so you can place those services you are likely to use the most often at the top of the stack.

The app is free, but it does require airtime for full use of all of its many services. And, as I noted in my Twitter status update above (written directly within the Snaptu application), it would be great if you could use Snaptu as the actual homescreen for the Nokia device. (I feel like I’ve seen that idea somewhere before – perhaps on some other mobile device …) For now, it is one click to Snaptu, and then all of the other services are just one more click away.

This video from the developers, Moblica, shows some of the many things you can do with Snaptu on your Nokia mobile device:

Basically, the app is really comprehensive, and offers a great ranges of choices in one convenient package. It would be great if you could add news feeds of your own, rather than just using the ones that have been picked for you; and it would be really nice to see some of Ovi’s services integrated with Snaptu, too – such as Ovi Mail. Maybe those will come with future updates for the app … And understand, those are not complaints – merely observations, or suggestions for things that would make Snaptu stand out even more.

The Snaptu app is available for a broad range of Nokia devices, and it is free to download from Ovi Store.

If you need any help with the app, there is a user forum online provided by Moblica.

Do you Snaptu? If so, tell us about how you use the app the most in the Comments section below.