Nokia today launched the latest handset in its Lumia collection as it battled to regain ground lost to its competitors. Here is a look at some of the 925's major rivals in the smartphone market.

The Independent was the only UK press at Nokia’s New Delhi launch on Thursday. David Phelan goes hands-on

Apple shares today rose less than 0.5% in Germany as European traders gave a lukewarm response to the iPhone maker’s latest results, focusing on its first fall in quarterly profits in a decade rather than the fact the decline was not as bad as expected.

The apps are costing phone providers billions.

BlackBerry offered some hope to investors as it swung back into the black in the last quarter, but the smartphone maker still crashed to an annual loss of $1.22bn (£800m).

The Metropolitan Police has approved plans to allow officers issued with work mobile phones to make personal calls on them for just £50 per year.

Lack of innovation has left iPhone user interface outdated, he says

Outlook A drink in a City bar with trader folk. They aren't prop traders, not officially anyway, they just do clients' bidding. That's what they say until there are two glasses of wine in, anyway, when a slightly different story emerges.

FBI chief reads riot act to America’s crime-busters after report details misdeeds of 1,000 staff

There's mischief in Yinka Shonibare's eyes when he says that he wants money and power. "Don't you? Isn't that what everyone wants," he chuckles. It's difficult to know if he's joking or not, and this interplay between seriousness and humour extends to his art.

The reports describe a 'rash of sexting cases', including examples of employees using staff Blackberry devices to send rude texts and photos

BlackBerry has a key advantage. It makes both hardware and software – only Apple matches this – so it can ensure that everything works together perfectly.

A British technology company is to trial the world’s first mobile payments service for the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service in  Indonesia, following a trade delegation to the country last year led by David Cameron.

The new BlackBerry phone launches with a totally new look and feel, but is it worth the wait?