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I'm never going to say to Simon 'did you see where I left my BlackBerry?' again; I will just email it and it will start making an awful noise and I'll know the cat has knocked it down the back of the radiator again - the glamorous life of a tech journalist... That's because I've installed Where's My Phone on it: read my review at Know Your Mobile

It's a close call as to whether Where's My Phone or txtForward was my favourite app from this set of reviews: with txtForward text and even PIN messages get emailed to me - and I can reply to them from my email, which means I don't have to switch devices to answer you. LaterDude turns missed phone calls and messages into reminders; I'm going to make Simon install it on his BlackBerry. But much as I wanted to like Sky Mobile, I didn't; yes being able to set up recordings on your Sky+ remotely is good, and clicking the EPG is much easier than constructing the syntax of a text message to trigger recording, but mobile TV just didn't work for me - and we've pretty much switched to using Sky+ on demand on our Media Center. Appointment TV is over and remembering to record things is dying off.
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What did Intel and Nokia actually say about their partnership yesterday, apart from "we can't tell you that yet"? Read my story over at The H; the big winner is mobile Linux.

That's not the same thing as mobile open source, as HTC showed this morning - launching what I think of as the first 'independant' Android phone; it's got the Android equivalent of the HTC Flow interface on it (I wonder if that will slow it down at all), it's not been pushed by the Android folk to look far too much like a Sidekick and it has full Flash on. I can no longer wave my copy of Skyfire on Windows Mobile and say I have the only full Flash mobile browser - but I still get Silverlight and PDF and my banking site works ;-)

And the BlackBerry is charging ahead as a consumer phone as well as a business tool; Simon and I have a batch of app reviews over at the ever-expanding Know Your Mobile site - did you know you could get free dictation software from Vlingo?

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