Phones

Microsoft says don’t do homebrew NoDo Windows Phone 7 update Please be patient for cut-and-paste, says company

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play review A good idea, but we're not sure the execution is great enough to bear the weight of a whole new gaming format.

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