Listen to the latest mobile industry news headlines for the UK, covering everything from Netflix and China Mobile to the innovation that's been shown off at CES. As usual, Iain, James and Mark offer an opinion on all the news stories that matter.

Orange has launched its first own-brand Android tablet in the UK today.

It’s called the Tahiti and has a dual-core 1.2GHz processor. Outside is a 7-inch LCD screen plus a 5 megapixel camera.

Visa Inc. and Visa Europe have certified a number of NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung, LG and Research In Motion for use with the Visa payWave contactless point of sale application. The Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry Curve 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 have all been added to the list of Visa-compliant payment products.

This means financial institutions can work with mobile operators to offer consumers one of these mobile devices with Visa mobile payment functionality.

Sony Ericsson is showing visitors to this year’s CES trade show what a Sony smartphone is expected to look like. Assuming, of course, all goes to plan with Sony’s plans to buy Ericsson out of the joint venture.

The Sony Xperia S is the first smartphone from the ‘next generation’ Xperia NXT series and is expected to go on sale worldwide in the next month or two.

The CES consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas opens to the public today following a media-only day yesterday.

Although next month’s Mobile World Congress takes away some of the focus on mobile devices, there’s still a lot of attention paid to handset announcements.