If there was ever a list of the 100 greatest handsets ever made, in the way there are lists in music magazines of the best records of all time, Motorola’s RAZR would surely feature near the top. The Sergeant Pepper of mobile phones, if you like. Iconic, and also costly to its makers.

Two things happened when ex-Carphone salesman Paul Potts opened his mouth at the Britain’s Got Talent TV ‘spectacular’ earlier this year. The world heard he had the voice of a tenor angel – and the teeth of Shrek.

Back in 2001 I seem to remember the future of mobile was going to include a 3rd dimension, Location, the other 2 dimensions being Voice and Data.

Arun Sarin was under huge pressure to raise Vodafone’s sales and profit predictions this week after O2 and Orange’s respective parent companies had done so ahead of Vodafone’s latest results announcement.

As I sit here, I have just received a call from another customer informing me 3’s direct sales team has been in touch about upgrading with them direct. Again.

Recently members of the Independent Mobile Phone Dealers Association (IMPDA) voted in favour of merging their forum base to form part of the Phone Dealer Forum, which I created four years ago.

Tom Alexander looked like he’d lost his zest for the mobile industry when he hung up on Virgin Mobile last summer.

The mystery surrounding Mark Ryan’s sudden departure from 20:20 Mobile can be revealed, sort of. It seems the new corporate Mummy and Daddy (aka Doughty Hanson) felt their new billion-pound baby needed a bit of child-minding.

Veteran Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg recently likened network rule in the mobile phone market to “the old bureaucracies of communism”.

The fortnightly production cycle at Mobile News means your life tends to unfold in sustained two-week chunks, characterised by an adrenalin rush as deadline looms and a high when the magazine goes to press. Followed by beer, a hangover and mild depression at starting all over again. Joke.