Ever seen that episode of Only Fools and Horses where Del Boy is going round trying to flog a mobile phone? Huge and ugly but touted as the way of the future, he has little joy.

We can't help wondering what late Only Fools writer John Sullivan would make of the news that by the end of this year, there will be more mobile devices on this planet than people!

NEC was the first manufacturer to bring 3G devices to the UK. Back in the early 2000s, when the network 3 first launched, the likes of the e606 were touted as the future though didn't take off in the droves hoped for because of their literal comparison to a brick (so big, they wouldn't even fit in a clown's pocket!)

We don't hear too much from them these days - but at least in Japan, punters are about to get a treat with three new Android devices unveiled.

Without a doubt, Mission Impossible is one of the most audacious games I’ve come across on the Android Market to date, largely because it has absolutely nothing to do with the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise. Amazing.

As the description on the Android Market says, Mission Impossible features “Gangsters, guns, girls, money, armored vehicle and all.” It’s simultaneously one of the best and worst things I’ve played of late. I love it. I think.

Nokia has cranked up the anticipation factor ahead of Mobile World Congress by posting a teaser video for some seriously high-end camera technology it's getting set to reveal.

It's all but certain now that one of the devices Nokia launches in Barcelona next week will be a premium cameraphone along the lines of the N8, but the question remains whether it will run Symbian or Windows Phone.

Intel is set to make a move on the mobile processing market later this year, and this week it reconfirmed its first two partners.

As we’d pretty much gathered already, they’ll be US manufacturer Motorola and Chinese OEM Lenovo. Slow news day? Aye, kinda.

Yesterday we heard that images of the quad-core Huawei Ascend D1 Q had leaked, and it’s just one of a handful of goodies the Chinese manufacturer is expected to bring to Mobile World Congress next week.

One of t’others is the Huawei MediaPad 10, successor to the 7in MediaPad, and now we’re hearing that it’s set to launch the day before Mobile World Congress i.e. this Sunday.

Get this HTC Flyer deal @ Expansys

Expansys has 200 units of the 16GB HTC Flyer to punt for £209.99. When they’re gone, it’ll revert to the pre-promotion price of £234.99, so get in quick.

We were getting quite used to meeting the latest iPhone in summer, as the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 all landed in either June or July.

However, Apple threw a curveball last year when it launched the iPhone 4S in October, and now we’re told to get used to it.

I scribbled about WP Bench – the popular benchmarking app for Windows Phone 7 – a few weeks ago, when a couple of mysterious Windows Phone builds popped up.

Now a Nokia Lumia 610 has been spotted in some WP Bench results, apparently running Windows Phone Tango.

We've only just got our heads around the trio of new LG smartphones announced yesterday, when LG comes and hits us with another: the LG Optimus 3D Max.

Its arrival is no surprise – in fact, an official photo leaked out a week ago already – but the real question is this: with last year's Optimus 3D having failed to make any real impact on a largely indifferent buying public, will things be any different this time around?

This triple booting tutorial is mainly for Mobotniks in the US, for anyone who has bought a Nook Color.

Being able to dual boot an Android device is pretty freaking awesome. You can use the separate installations to hide your second life or you can use it for more socially acceptable practices, such as having one installation for work and one for play. So, what does that say about triple booting? Without knowing anything about triple booting at all, one can assume that it is at least 150% more awesome than dual booting...

For those Mobotniks out there who are rocking a Barnes and Noble Nook Color, triple booting can be a reality for you. The process is a little tough, but if you follow it out you can boot not just one, not two but three separate installations from the spunky little tablet.

Unfortunately for some HTC EVO 3D owners, getting rooted isn't as easy as we all would like it to be. If you're rocking an hboot version that is 1.5 or higher, then you can only get fake root through the htcdev.com website, but not the full s-off, bootloader unlocked root that we'd all rather have. Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't people working on that.

Well, Mobotniks, if you're rocking an HTC Evo 3D and you're on Vodaphone, there's a chance that you may yet be able to achieve full root with relative ease as there has been a method uncovered that will allow people to downgrade from the 1.5 hboot and achieve full s-off goodness.

The first official images have popped up online of the Huawei Ascend D1 Q – the formidable quad-core beast that's expected to touch down at Mobile World Congress next week.

The Ascend D1 Q has been billed as the Chinese brand's fastest ever smartphone, and will spearhead Huawei's assault on the premium end of the Android market in 2012.

Could March be the month of the Samsung Galaxy S III? We're certainly hoping so, as given Samsung's recent announcement that it won't be holding any press conferences at MWC, we can now rule out February.

The source of our new-found optimism is news that Sammy has apparently pencilled in an event for Amsterdam on March 15, with the intriguing tagline "Samsung line-up 2012".

The only customization options you have in Windows Phone 7, are, by default, pretty limited: You can choose between black and white backgrounds, and several different colors that are used throughout the system, for example on your homescreen. It all does look pretty nice, depending on your taste, but if you crave to customize the look of the Live Tiles a bit more, beyond different color options, you might want to give WizTiles a try.

With WizTiles, you can not only choose from several included themes, but take any picture and apply it to your tiles, like a wallpaper on steroids.

So, it's been... oh, at least a couple of weeks since the last leaked images of the Sony (Ericsson) Xperia Kumquat. Fancy some more? Oh go on then..

These ones come courtesy of a Chinese mobile site and there are no fewer than 16 for you to feast your greedy eyes on. The Kumquat, which also goes by the name Sony Xperia ST25i and is expected to launch as the Sony Xperia U, has even been snapped right next to the Xperia S for comparison purposes.

When the mischievous dead came out to play, they certainly weren't expecting a delicious, deep-pan nemesis to counter their demonic incursion. Pizza vs Skeletons may appear to be a somewhat cynical title at first glance - or a case of throwing random words together for the sake of wackiness - but the truth is that this crazy crust comes double-stuffed with innovation and polish.

Plus, you get to destroy the undead skeletons with a pizza topped with candy and jellyfish. Wearing a Mozart wig. Why haven't you bought it already?

Sadly, despite the presence of Bouncer, the Android Market is no stranger to malware. A popular technique is to post fake apps posing as the real thing – or “fan apps”.

Security guys Trend Micro recently identified 37 such apps, and they’ve now been removed from the Android Market. But is the threat over? Not so much.