If ever there were confirmation that the smartphone market is now a two-horse race, it came with the latest IDC Mobile Phone Tracker figures, which the research company has regularly generated since 2004. Nokia has topped the charts ever since – until now, when it lost its crown for the first time ever. more »

If you're going to design your company's new hero product, would you really give it an old operating system? Yes, if you were Sony. Whether customers will care, remains to be seen. more »

You have to feel at least a little sorry for Nokia. With Christmas coming up, it finally managed to get its Windows Phone 7-based Lumia 800 phone into the market (albeit not in Australia) and show the world that it's serious about reinventing itself. But with the smartphone and tablet audiences tempted by far shinier (and more tangible) things, Nokia is flirting with irrelevance. Can its promised Windows 8 tablet change its fortunes, or is it already too late? more »