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"Sony Ericsson have slipped to fifth place in the handset sales market (reports SMSTextNews) with LG replacing them. The report, from Gartner, puts LG on around 8% of the market for sales during Q1 of 2008. Nokia are still number one, with 115.2 million phone sales, and there's also a global increase on all handset sales from Q1 2007 of 13.6%.Samsung continue a strong number two position, up from

Sony Ericsson have slipped to fifth place in the handset sales market (reports SMSTextNews) with LG replacing them. The report, from Gartner, puts LG on around 8% of the market for sales during Q1 of 2008. Nokia are still number one, with 115.2 million phone sales, and there's also a global increase on all handset sales from Q1 2007 of 13.6%.

Good morning from London on this rainy Bank Holiday. It's nice weather for ducks. And today, we're changing hosting providers so you may see a few errors on smstextnews.com for some or part of the day. Standby — we'll see you on the other side!

If you've got a burning question or issue that you'd like us to debate on tomorrow's SMS Text News Podcast, knock me over an email (ewan@smstextnews.com) and we'll do our best to discuss it.

Mosso caught my eye, big time, the other day. Then today I caught SMS Text News reader (and Twitter follower) Jon Paul Davies' brief post on Mosso and thought, ‘Yes, indeed. I like that idea!' Now and again the SMS Text News server goes down, usually for two key reasons: - 1. Diskspace. I

Ben Smith at SMSTextNews continues his long-term look at the Ovi components, and now turns his attention to the Nokia Music Store. His overall grade of a ‘C-‘ reflects his view that the service is “good enough as a default” but he wonders what positive impact the ‘Comes with Music’ package will have in the future.

Many of you are users of ShoZu on your mobile device - I certainly am. So it's with delight that Ewan MacLeod (SMSTextNews) points out they now have a desktop client. As with the mobile client, ShoZu Desktop is multi-platform (using Adobe Air on PC, Mac and Linux) and lets you upload your media to the popular sharing sites, email to friends, or post them onto your blog.

This week's Application of the Week is from a frequent topic here at SMStextnews - those folks at ROK Entertainment Group. This week we took a look at ROK Talk, the company's latest application to help make organizing conference calling quick and easy, directly on your mobile phone. We had the opportunity to get in

Can anyone help with a perspective on this issue? Hi Ewan, I'm a regular visitor of smstextnews and stumbled upon an article of yours where u mentioned about people coming up to you for any phone related queries and was wondering whether you could help me out with my own query. I have a nokia e61i, and everything