Freeware, Nokia and tumbleweed dominate an unusually quiet week

It's been a quieter week over on our dear sister site Pocket Picks for two reasons. The first is that Mobile World Congress is over and we're now experiencing some post storm tranquility. The other is that our crack team of writers now have hands so gnarled and withered from toil that they're fit for little more than bathing their spent minds and bodies in ice and booze (not necessarily in that order).

Even so, there has still been the odd news kernel added here and there, with the week beginning with the discovery of a reasonably convincing iPhone OS skin for touchscreen-enabled Windows Mobile devices, called iFonz. Start as we mean to go on, eh? (We told you it was a slow week.)

At any rate, iFonz was closely followed by another interesting bit of freeware called CalSyncS60 which, for the more perceptive among you, can only mean a calendar synching application for S60 phones; in this case, Google Calendar is the service on the receiving end.

Slightly more official and yet still free was Nokia's latest attempt to give a leg up to its Nokia Conversations service by launching a YouTube channel dedicated to explaining the finer points of the service.

In fact, it was really Nokia that took the lion's share of the news last week. We were treated to a video demo of the N96's mobile TV capabilities, as well as two new Nokia handsets: the N78 and the 6220 Classic. From the Nokia Beta Labs there was a new Vista SMS widget, while the long time coming Share Online software finally took its first tentative steps out of beta territory.

In other more general news, yet another so called tipster made yet another claim that yet another handset manufacturer (in this case Samsung) is apparently crafting an Android based Gphone for Google. Handset news of a less nebulous kind was delivered by Toshiba with the impressive looking Portégé G810 that might just get Samsung's marketing department in a twist (though it probably won't).

Last of all, for any of you planning to emigrate to the Moon in the next decade or so, it looks like the whole mobile reception thing should be taken care of. That's it for now, then. Click 'Track It!' to catch next week's (hopefully busier) Pocket Picks round-up.