Phones

Parrot Minikit Smart review A very clever piece of kit, but the speaker is too quiet and call quality wasn't as good as we were hoping for.

Opera Mobile 11.10 brings the mobile browser wars Kat tries out the mobile browser that gives HTML5 support to almost any smartphone

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 review The X8 has some clever features, but it can't match Motorola’s Defy on contract. It’s a good choice on prepay, though.

Vodafone network temporarily wiped out after break-in Customers have lost voice and data connections as a result of break-in at Vodafone.

HP Veer and webOS demonstration It's not all Android at Mobile World Congress, with HP's very impressive webOS also being demonstrated on new hardware.

Acer Iconia Smart – the super widescreen smartphone Acer's brave new smartphone design incorporates a super-long 21:9 display

Nokia ditches Symbian for Windows Phone 7 Nokia and Microsoft form strategic alliance

iPlayer App for Android available now, but it’s buggy Mobile site still a better option than app

Alcatel-Lucent LightRadio promises UK mobile broadband everywhere Shrinks a base station into a tiny cube

Google makes Android Market better than App Store New web front end lets you browse and install apps from any computer

Everything Everywhere introduces proximity payments Partnership with Barclaycard will see NFC payments from mobile phones

Orange San Francisco review It has a great screen, but we’re not keen on Orange’s extra software and there are better alternatives for the same price.

LG Optimus One review It's an improvement over the original Optimus GT540, but the small screen resolution and poor camera mean it doesn’t compare