Review Budget pricing still doesn’t put this brand on the map Navigate with your Michelin sat nav as you wear out your Michelin tyres visiting destinations that you’ve read about in the Michelin restaurant guides. Will the new budget X970T put this brand on the sat nav map? Continued

The spirit of Christmas enters UK court Nokia’s pre-emptive strike against InterDigital’s 3G-covering patent portfolio has reached a ruling by the English High Court, reducing an initial pile of 31 patents down to four: one of which has been ruled essential for 3G technology, and three which could, but might not be infringed by a 3G handset. Continued

Review Nothing slippery about this one… With its recent 6500 Slide and Classic models, Nokia has introduced the most unlikely twins since Schwarzenegger and DeVito. Although they share the same model number and 3G capability, the 6500 Slide and 6500 Classic are very different devices both in looks and key features. Continued

They’ll help you shop too Nokia has developed prototype cameraphone applications that ll not only make ordering dinner from foreign restaurant menus easier, but which also promises to take window shopping online. Continued

Would you buy it? Nokia is challenging traditional mobile phone concepts and seeking to help the environment in one go, with the unveiling of its Eco Sensor Concept handset design. Continued

Watch out for this one… ahem These days a clothing label isn t fashionable unless it s got a mobile phone to its name. But now Swiss watch-maker Tag Heuer has clocked onto the idea and has announced plans to launch a range of luxury handsets. Continued

LG describes blast as ‘virtually impossible’ A South Korean man was this morning found dead at work, apparently killed by an exploding mobile phone battery, AP reports. Continued

But not for mobile phones Toshiba has put back its plan to develop ultra-thin OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays until 2009 or 2010. Continued

Intel stays outside the tent Toshiba confirmed yesterday that it had joined a 32-nanometre chip development group led by IBM and made up of a number of key industry players minus top dog Intel. Continued

UMA, eh? The rumoured Samsung Katalyst slider handset finally appeared on the radar this morning courtesy of a partnership with T-Mobile. Continued

Review Nothing slippery about this one… With its recent 6500 Slide and Classic models, Nokia has introduced the most unlikely twins since Schwarzenegger and DeVito. Although they share the same model number and 3G capability, the 6500 Slide and 6500 Classic are very different devices both in looks and key features. Continued

But not for mobile phones Toshiba has put back its plan to develop ultra-thin OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays until 2009 or 2010. Continued

If Sony won’t, someone else will It seems some PlayStation Portable (PSP) fanboys are so keen to get their hands on a mobile phone-enabled version of the handheld console that they re willing to design their own. Continued

Chunk of spectrum latest must-have accessory for the super-rich? The FCC has revealed the list of bidders interested in owning a little 700MHz, a spectrum due for release in January next year with the switch off of analogue TV. Continued

CFO to CEO O2 has named its previous UK finance boss as its new chief executive for the UK. Continued

Don’t even think about it Led Zeppelin have warned that anyone buying illicit tickets for the band’s O2 Arena gig will likely not get past the tout-busting “stringent security measures”, the Daily Telegraph reports. Continued

Closet swatting A California family that found their apartment surrounded by more than a dozen heavily SWAT armed officers are among the latest victims of swatting, a crime designed to elicit an emergency response by reporting a bogus 911 call. Continued

Europe gets a single mobile TV standard Mobile TV has moved one step nearer to widespread roll-out as the European Commission officially selects DVB-H as the standard for Europe. Continued

Just as the uberphone gets some applications iPhone sales around Europe have been disappointing, with the French only pocketing 30,000 in the first five days - though that’s three times the number T-Mobile managed to shift in Germany. But that’s not stopped Google releasing an optimised version of its mobile application suite specially designed for the finger-driven interface. Continued

TAG Heuer joins rush to brand phone handsets TAG Heuer, Swiss maker of fashion watches, has signed an agreement with French design house Modelabs to create TAG phones for those who need a logo to talk to. Continued

Don’t sit too close LG has developed a range of high contrast LCD monitors, which it claims boosts the highest contrast screen currently available from 3000:1 to 5000:1. Continued

Voyager the product of a union twixt iPhone and Nokia Communicator? LG has shown off Voyager - its take on the classic Nokia Communicator design - and Venus - a touchscreen-based, music-oriented slider phone - both of which it plans to release in the US soon in partnership with Verizon. Continued