The car comes with a Sony Ericsson T610 connected to Your Plan with 120 minutes free for the first six months.

A Carphone Warehouse spokeswoman said: Although we dont give out sales figures we can say that we have sold all of our stock. We were also aware of the emphasis and expectations that Nokia has for the device and so we ordered stock accordingly.

The hybrid games player-cum-phone was launched across Europe on October 7 on the back of a multi-million pound television and poster campaign.

Questions had been raised about the wisdom of Nokias new handset with many suggesting that the device would struggle in a gaming market so heavily dominated by Nintendo.

Pre-launch pressure wasnt eased when Nokia announced that it was expecting to see six-figure sales in the UK before Christmas.

Nokia business development manager Ray Haddow said: We are extremely delighted with the early sales of the N-Gage. We have always had a lot of faith in it and I am sure it will continue to prove us right.

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The P900 is smaller and more powerful than its predecessor. It has 16Mb RAM (compared with 12Mb for the P800) a 32Mb memory card (set against the P800s 16Mb card) a video camera for video playback video-messaging and a 65000-colour screen.

The P900 also looks more like a PDA as the P800s blue plastic exterior has been shelved in favour of a metallic silver casing.

The P900 keypad is still touch-screen however and the electronic flip keypad remains in place. It features Sony Ericssons QuickShare interface and has Bluetooth.

The P900 ships next month and will be positioned at the high end of the market at around the same price as the P800 on launch – 450 SIM-free.

The design shows herons in flight with crystals set in their eyes. Some of the phones were given to guests at Noronhas show during London Fashion Week. The rest will be available for sale later this year through distributors of Noronhas collection.

Chris Evans of Kiss Communications claims he is owed more than 2500 commission by Caudwell Group subsidiary 4U.

Evans is outraged that he has been told that unless he sends a letter confirming he will continue to work with 4U he will not see any of this money.

This is restriction of trade pure and simple says Evans. I am not a big player but I have done some decent business for 4U. But two weeks ago my bookkeeper was told that we wouldnt receive any payments unless we assured 4U that we would work with it again.

I have found 4U hard to work with and it was always bad at paying so I stopped connecting people. There was no point.

However Evans said he never told 4U that he wouldnt work with the company again.

He said his last commission invoice was submitted in July but claimed that it still hasnt been paid.

Evans was told that a six-month clawback period rule was part of his terms and conditions.

He denies this however saying:

There is no way I would have signed something like that. There is no way that I can afford to subsidise handsets for any distributor. I have tried to talk to the 4U reps but they wont tell me anything.

One distributor also said 4U had refused to pay him money he was owed until a clawback period had passed.

4U said: This is a private trading matter. We are operating within the terms and conditions of our contract with the dealer. The contract is designed to protect both 4U and the dealer.

Daniel Everard 19 of Beckenham Kent was fined 150 with 55 costs when he appeared for sentencing at Horseferry Road court on August 11. He worked at the car park as an air conditioning engineer.

Everard admitted the theft from the BMW after being shown CCTV footage of him stealing the 140 Nokia handset from the vehicle. I dont know why I did it it was a five-minute stupid thing he told the court.

In another case a 13-year-old schoolboy has appeared in court accused of robbing train passengers of mobile phones.

The boy from Mitcham in Surrey cannot be named for legal reasons.

He is charged with robbing Nikhil Sumaria of a phone and ring at Norbury and Zade Wilson of cash wallet and travelcard on a train between Thornton Heath and Norbury.

The Abingdon-based distributor joins Hugh Symons Avenir and Fone Logistics in offering the 3G network to dealers.

Hutchison Whampoa operates a port in Burma through one of its divisions. A 3 spokesman said: 3 UK is a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa and we have no direct or indirect links with Burma.

Vodafones previous assistance numbers (192 and 197) were withdrawn on Sunday in accordance with Oftel requirements.

The number 195 for disabled customers will remain in operation.

The service is being outsourced to information service provider Conduit and will be available to contract and pre-pay customers.

Conduit currently operates call centres in Dublin Cardiff Swansea Biel and Vienna and provides services to clients in the UK Ireland Switzerland Spain and Austria.

Last year it handled more than 100 million directory enquiry calls and expects that figure to double this year as a result of deregulation in the UK and Spain.

The network is not changing the price of the service. Calls cost 60p per connection 60p per subsequent minute and a further 60p per minute for any connected call.

Conduit is investing more than 40 million to support 11-88-88 over the next 18 months as part of its ongoing expansion. l Vodafone has also opened its first concept store in the north of England following those in Watford Cardiff and Londons Oxford Street.

The new Experience store located in Manchester follows the tried-and-tested formula of big demonstration areas touch screens a business lounge in-store repair area free phone recharging facility and also free phone home to roamers customer service numbers.

Sales of PDAs without mobile capability are expected to fall this year by 8.4 per cent to 11.35 million units worldwide.

IDC reckons sales of converged devices such as smartphones and wireless PDAs will overtake unconnected devices to grow beyond 13 million units this year. Better design usability and lower prices are said to be behind the upsurge in smartphone/wireless PDA sales.

IDC research showed Nokia to be the leading converged device maker with 61 per cent global market share and sales of 1200000 smartphones/communicators globally in Q2. Sony Ericsson was number two (10.2 per cent market share) followed by Motorola (5.8 per cent) and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (4.6 per cent).