Canalys' Q3 worldwide smartphone sales figures . Headline figures are that the entire smartphone market grew by 4% year on year, with Nokia's S60 smartphone sales growing by 6% year on year and with their world market share now also

For compatible devices, the BBC iPlayer widget just got a big update from version 1.6 to version 2.5 (hat tip to ). Speed and formatting are much better, and there are improvements in encoding and N97 homescreen widget support. More

EyeMags, a service for generating personal content applications for mobile phones, has today added support for S60 5th Edition phones such as the Nokia 5800, Nokia N97 and Sony Ericsson Satio. EyeMags, using a web-based creator, allows anyone to create

In which I muse on the seemingly unstoppable handover in all parts of the phone world from traditional phone form factors to large touchscreens and wonder, in particular, just ...

At last week's Symbian Exchange and Exposition, Lee Williams (Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation) showed, during the keynote, a concept video of what a future Symbian UI might look like. The video shows a typical use case: accepting an

It's.... another compendium of interesting links that I really wanted to flag up for attention here. Firstly, the ITU (the telecoms bit of the UN) has joined the American CTIA in . Note that most Symbian-powered phones already use this.

And so the final N-Gage game slips out the harbour. Perhaps Nokia were hoping for a quiet maiden voyage for Powerboat Challenge? Whoops. Despite a solid game structure and good enough graphics, this title just - in Ewan's words -

Opera have released a . Sporting the same user interface as the recently updated Opera Mini, Opera Mobile provides an alternative browser to that built into the majority of handsets, and first impressions on the beta are good. Highlights include

There's a . Well worth a read and helps understand where Nokia is coming from.

Google's S60 'portal' search utility, 'Google Mobile App' just got itself an update to v2.03(8), bringing voice searching - and it works rather impressively. Bring up the S60 3rd Edition utility in the usual way (e.g. by pressing 'C' on

Tamoggemon Software has just flagged up a new S60 5th Edition scientific graphing calculator, TouchCalc, and we've agreed to put the call out for beta testers - there are a couple of screenshots below to give you an idea. If

I'd been seeing comments about improving N97 camera flash flare (refracted through camera glass scratches) by using a marker pen, but hadn't quite got my head around exactly what to do. Luckily, I came across this helpful video on YouTube

In this feature, I look at the creeping size increases in modern 'phones' - at what point do they I postulate a definition that refers to the way in which these devices are used - and throwing doubt on the