The latest happenings in mobile music, movies, TV and tantrums

The cascading iPhone media babble is finally starting to settle down to a dependable murmur, which means that iPhone news on our sister site Pocket Picks, although just as frequent, is becoming a little less dramatic.

Still, there was speculation this week that Apple's newest gadget may be behind a delay in the arrival of the next generation iPod, meaning that not only is Apple set to compete against other mobile upstarts in the shape of Google and Creative, but also with itself for market share in an increasingly gadget flooded world. The device is nevertheless bound to sell a fair few truckloads, especially if more companies offer the sort of contract incentives that Cingular seem to be planning. Incidentally, iPhone daddy Steve Jobs turned a few heads when he was spotted using one in public.

The trend on mobile for increasingly advanced audio-visual functionality continued to juggernaut its way this week, as both Rok and the Carphone Warehouse revealed new content delivery services in yet another attempt to lay waste to iTunes. There were others making moves towards easier mobile media too, with Vodafone teaming up with YouTube and 3 offering a new video portal of its own.

There were also some interesting new approaches to bringing the power of the written word to the world of mobile phones with the release of two new mobile applications.

The first is XWord for Symbian phones. This little wonder enables you to download crosswords from all over the internet including those from the likes of The Times, The Guardian and The Independent. Or, if you get bored with exercising your brain you could always use The News of The World's new mobile application to catch up on all the latest celebrity tittle tattle.

There was also a quirky little Symbian release called SMS Diary which despite sounding like some sort of dry and dusty organizer function is, in fact, an application that assembles the contents of your phones SMS folder into diary form that can then be published to a web page.

Lastly, proof that marketing gurus tend to be mentally unsound. As sponsor of the Miami Open Tennis Tournament, Sony Eriksson has decided that the best way to raise the profile of the event is to hold
a Night Tennis match where DJs Paul Oakenfold and Masters at Work will duke it out 'mano a mano' on a day-glo tennis court to the sound of some 'banging beats'. Between sets there will be a UV-themed fashion show, and the whole bizarre spectacle will be projected onto a gigantic 25m screen.

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