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A man has been reunited with his Nokia mobile phone after it was found inside a 4 foot cod. Andrew Cheatle had been playing with his dog on the beach when it slipped out of his pocket. He thought that was it and he’d never see it again.

Then trawlerman Glen Kerley found the phone a week later when he was gutting a 25lb four foot cod, he took out the SIM card and made some calls to see if he could reunite the phone with it’s owner. Amazingly when Andrew got the phone back he dried it out and it worked.

The poor cod must have had a shock when he ate the phone not exactly a tasty meal. We had some questions: Was the phone on vibrate? Were calls made to the phone when in the fish’s tummy? What’s the coverage like under the sea.

Opera the mobile portal have announced that traffic increased by 18% in January compared with December. This is the fastest growth they’ve seen since May 2008. Another sign that the market is moving to smart phones and using the data services.

Nokia have confimed that they are considering entering the already crowded laptop market. Still the market leaders in the Mobile market albeit with a reduced market share from the heady days of the late 90s and early noughties, they will make an interesting addition to this growing sector.  

Nokia the Finnish Mobile Phone retailers is to cut 1,000 jobs worldwide. They are hoping the cuts will come from voluntary redundancies.

The telecoms testing group reported full year operating profits up 91%. The improvement is due to a lower cost base and new products.

Orders in January equalled the same month last year.

Coming soon - the new Sony Ericsson Idou coming to the UK market by Christmas promises a 12.1 megapixel camera. This is a higher spec than many Digital cameras.

Nice looking aswell.

Samsung’s Omnia is a great new phone with a touchscreen offering high-definition vdeo.

LG launched a new phone that’s also a watch. the Touch Watch was launched at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona and will allow consumers to talk straight into the watch. Nice one. Orange will offer the new phone / watch in Britain later this year.

The new Touch Watch mobile phone.

The Mobile phone insdustry has finally got together and come up with a solution to the problem of having different chargers for every differnet model of handset.

It is estimated that old chargers made up 51,000 tonnes of waste last year releasing 21.8 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.

Now 17 operators and manufacturers have joined forces and will now offer 1 type of charger which will fit all models of phone.

Good news for the environment, good news for places that which to offer charging faciliaties such as cafes, planes, hotel and trains, good news for drawer space in our houses, and good news for when you visit friends no need to take a charger with you.

Soon it will be possible to just buy the phone and be offered that charger if you wish to have one. It’ll take a few years to flow through as everyone upgrades their handsets but eventually we’ll all be sing the same type.  

The Mobile Phone Industry’s biggest gathering begins in Barcelona today. The industry meets with at an interesting times with Nokia predicting a reduced number of handset sales worldwide and the general economic downturn will make for some scratching of chins in some quarters.

Anyway there are still areas of growth - China, India are obvious examples but will growth in these conutries slow over the next 12 months. The economy in China is showing signs of slowing so this maybe the case.

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Nokia the telecoms equipment maker is cutting production at it’s Salo factory in Finland reflecting the drop in handsets sales.

The Canadian makers of Blackberry - Reasech in Motion - said that quarterly earnings would be at the lower end of expectations despite subscripber growth having topped forecasts.