Carnival of the Mobilists number 59 is now available at . The posts this week cover a wide range of topics, with of course a vast amount of discussion about the iPhone.

Don't worry, little mowbli. Britain's Carphone Warehouse has of reality show Celebriry Big Brother after this week's flair-up of alleged racism shown by housemates to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. After more than 30,000 complaints rolled in to Ofcom and …

So the iPhone has a touch-screen interface, and is sleek and sexy, but it isn't out until later this year. So, what to buy the person in your life who needs a little *zhuzh* in the mobile department? Why a . Slim, black, and minimalist, the device sports a touchscreen …

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London based is coming to the US. TechCrunch the US launch and handed out 100 free accounts for the voicemail to email or SMS service this morning. See our previous coverage .

Spinvox has mainly distributed their service through carriers, but will also set …

has posted some pictures of a new handset from Pantech specifically for the Korean mobile operator Sky. The UM-I170 looks incredibly swish, and despite being a flip phone (a style I'm not personally keen on), I can see this one taking up residence as my primary handset, assuming of course I could get one.

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Okay, I’ve been roundly criticized for not posting on the yesterday like every other blog that even remotely pretends to be interested in mobile devices. That’s okay. I can take the heat. The way I see it my decision was sound; the fact is, if you didn’t have the scoop (who did, by the way?) and you didn’t get a proto-type to play with (not many of those floating around are there?) then anything you post is based …

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TechCrunch just on a really interesting service, . They’re a New Jersey based service that lets users change their cell plans early without the $250 fee by swapping plans with someone else. It’s a brilliant idea that gets rid of the bane of most mid-contract cell phone users.

It operates like an eBay for cell contracts, with some financial incentives for the party that takes on the contract. Recipients avoid activation fees …

OK, everyone has had a full night's sleep, put on clean underpants, and had several looks at the various iPhone porn posted online (for non-native English speakers, by this I mean the flood of pictures coming out of Macworld of the iPhone models on display) and read …

According to livebloggers on the scene, Steve Jobs has just announced the advent of the iPhone after all, at Macworld this morning in San Francisco. More details as they come in, but it looks like a step-change in mobile phone design, running on Apple's OS X, with a gesture controlled interface, ability to play iTunes, video, has WiFi, the whole shebang.

It features various kinds of sensors to make the device as intelligent as needed, …

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I’ve just had the privilege of getting a quick guided tour of Iotum’s new “Talk Now” presence solution for mobile devices. Deployed, alas, on a Blackberry which is one of the few devices I don’t have I may just have to go out and get one because I want to take advantage of this new application.

In mobile, it’s refreshing to talk with someone that really “gets it” and Alec Saunders, CEO …