Phones 4u and Huawei have announced a partnership that'll see the retailer stocking Huawei’s own-brand Blaze and Vision smartphones by the end of the year. They're the first of the company’s own-brand smartphones destined for the UK.

Both the 1GHz Huawei Vision and the 800MHz Blaze will run Android v2.3; the Huawei Blaze will launch exclusively with Phones4u before becoming available via other retailers.

Mark Bridge writes:

Recording a phone call made by a mobile phone isn’t particularly difficult – it's something we do regularly for our podcasts – but recording every call made and received by a mobile phone isn't so easy. It's even more of a problem for companies with dozens or even hundreds of employees using mobile phones... and yet, for many organisations, this type of thing will soon be a legal requirement.

To learn more, I've been talking to Ian Hook, vice-president of marketing at Compliant Phones. I started by asking Ian why companies would want to record all their mobile phone calls.

HP has announced what it's describing as a 'company transformation'.

It will stop producing the TouchPad tablet and webOS phones, admitting that they've not met financial targets. The company says it will "continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward".

It's becoming increasingly important for companies to keep records of mobile phone calls and text messages - and in some cases it's also a legal requirement. In this week's podcast, Ian Hook from Compliant Phones explains the challenges and reveals the answers.

New figures from the Nielsen Smartphone Analytics report show that Android users appear to prefer spending time on mobile apps rather than on web sites.

After analysing data from thousands of smartphones in the USA, Nielsen has calculated that the average Android consumer spends 56 minutes per day interacting with the web and with apps on their phone.