Sony Ericsson may be no more, but if you bought an Xperia smartphone during 2011 then that's the name staring at you from your phone's sculpted face.

And as of today that face is getting a fresh new look, as Sony has confirmed the Android 4.0.4 update – aka Ice Cream Sandwich – is rolling out to the 2011 Xperias, starting it seems with the Xperia Arc and Xperia Neo.

I was rather fond of the original Cut the Rope, awarding it a well-deserved 5/5 in my iOS review way back in February 2011.

Fast-forward 15 months, and Cut the Rope: Experiments is riding high in the App Store’s Top Free Games (usually 69p for the iPhone, or £1.49 for the HD iPad version). Does it live up to the good Cut the Rope name, or is it stale as a stale thing? Spoiler alert: it’s the first one.

US manufacturer ViewSonic is certainly no stranger to the tablet game, with its most notable output to date probably being its dual-boot efforts, allowing customers to rock Android and Windows. Woop.

However, we’re hearing news of a real headline grabber, in the form of a ViewSonic tablet with a whopping 22in display. Goodness gracious.

It’s no secret that Sky detests Virgin Media, regularly denying Team Branson channels and content and that. Remember the dark days when Sky 1 disappeared from Virgin’s TV service?

As such, it’d make perfect sense for Sky to take the fight to the mobile arena. Rumours of a Sky mobile network recently reached fever pitch, but the media beast says it ain’t happening.

Get this white Motorola Razr deal @ Expansys

The Motorola Razr was, for a short time, the world’s thinnest smartphone. At 7.1mm, it’s still pretty freakin' slim as far as mobiles go, and you can currently grab one - in white - from Expansys for £299.99.

Manufacturer UIs are a bit of a mixed blessing, opening the door for unique Android experiences, but often sucking up resource and ultimately delaying future updates.

We’ve already got the likes of HTC Sense (which has been toned down of late) and Samsung’s TouchWiz, and now Huawei is set to reveal its new Android UI, called Emotion.

Yesterday morning, Mobot’s James Martinez was saying that the pebble blue variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III had possibly been hit by an unspecified manufacturing hitch.

Well, turns out that is indeed the case, as Vodafone and others have started warning customers not to expect their pebble blue Samsung Galaxy S III on May 30. Eek.

In years to come, when they're looking for the exact point at which we officially lost the plot as a species, how about: when we started expressing the thickness of smartphones in hundredths of a millimetre?

Well, probably not. It'll probably be something more significant. In fact, it would be hard not to. Anyway, say hello to the Oppo Finder, which at 6.65mm seems to be the new world's thinnest phone.

The Windows Phone Marketplace is miles behind Apple’s App Store and Google Play in terms of volume, but Nokia’s Stephen Elop - for one - stresses that quality is more important than quantity.

While there are some pretty big holes, one in particular sounds set to be plugged pretty soon, in the shape of BBC iPlayer.

In-app billing was introduced to the Android Market – now Google Play – just over a year ago, giving developers the opportunity to rake in cash via virtual goods and that.

Fast-forward 14 months and Google Play is giving developers another way to monetise, namely subscriptions.

Apple set the bar a while back with the 326 pixels-per-inch (PPI) "Retina" display on the iPhone 4, but it’s not massively uncommon to find eye-melting displays on the latest flagships. The Sony Xperia S and HTC One X, for examples, both break the 300 PPI mark.

But hold onto your hat, Gloria, ‘cause LG has a display up its sleeve with a whopping – wait for it – 440 PPI.

We’ve already had a couple of Facebook phones in the form of the HTC ChaCha and Salsa, and recently heard rumours of the HTC-manufactured “Buffy”. Yes, as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Now we’re hearing that Facebook is looking to go a step further, by building its own phone.

Get this white Samsung Galaxy Note deal @ Asda Direct

Samsung’s 5.3in phablet, the Galaxy Note, has proved pretty popular, shifting five million units in five months. If you fancy joining the Samsung Galaxy Note party, you can grab one from Asda Direct for £369, SIM free and unlocked.

Seems like pebble blue is the new white. Or it would if the other colour the Samsung Galaxy S III is available in wasn't already white.

The point is, just like with the long-delayed white Apple iPhone 4, it looks like production issues are hitting the pebble blue Galaxy S III, issues that is likely to result in the handset failing to launch on time in certain markets.

So far the Thorsten Heins era of leadership at Research in Motion has been defined by a welcome ratcheting down of the blue sky speak (despite initial hiccups) and a refocusing on the very real and practical changes needed if the company is to turn things around.

However, there's also a hard reality to be faced: the RIM of 2012 isn't strong enough to sustain a workforce of 16,500 employees around the planet. Cuts are coming, and they're going to be painful.

These superhero types are never happy are they? Back in December we reported on Nokia and Phones4U coming together to produce an ultra-limited edition run of 40 Batman-themed Lumia 800 Windows Phones for mobile movie buffs.

But it seems that Bruce Wayne isn't satisfied any more now that he's spotted the flagship Lumia 900, and now he's insisting on his own personalised version of the bigger-boned Nokia too. 

Probably fair to say Nvidia is doing alright for itself in the world of mobile, and – according to shouts from a recent investor meeting – things are set to get even sexier.

While Nvidia’s Tegra 2 featured in 15 smartphones (is that all?) last year, the US chaps reckon Tegra 3 will power double that – 30, for mathphobes – in space year 2012AD.

We already have the Sony Xperia P, Xperia S, and Xperia U, and recently the ST21i – or Tapioca – has been rumoured at the lower end.

Now we’re hearing details of another possible Sony budget effort, this time with model number ST26i. Not the first time it’s popped up, to be honest, but the first time we’ve put pen to ST26i-flavoured paper.

Remember we all thought Toshiba was a little crazy, with its whopping 13.3in prototype tablet? Surely that’s a tad on the large size, no?

Well, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is rocking a beast literally six times – yes, six times – that size; a wall-mounted Windows 8 tablet weighing in at 80in. Good lord.

Get this Motorola Defy Mini deal @ Asda Direct

Who knew there was a Motorola Defy Mini? Not I. The Motorola Defy Mini is, as implied on the tin, a smaller version of the rugged Motorola Defy. Makes sense to me. You can currently grab one from Asda Direct, SIM free and unlocked, for £79.