In the last of our series of special podcasts from Mobile World Congress 2010, Mark Bridge interviews Jeff Taylor – a co-founder of INQ Mobile, now its Marketing & Strategy Director – and Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of voice encryption company Cellcrypt.

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Mark Bridge writes:

We queued in the rain outside the Catalonia Barcelona Plaza hotel. We sat on the floor in a basement room. And we watched on TV as Steve Ballmer announced Windows Phone 7 Series.

The life of a reporter is not a glamorous one.

Mark Bridge writes:

I’ve previously talked about a report from 2009 which warned how touch-screen phones that weren’t true smartphones were pushing down ARPU. Consumers thought they were buying something that was relatively advanced but were being seduced by form over function.

This week HTC stepped in to the arena with the HTC Smart, described by HTC's Peter Chou as "a more-affordable smartphone". Although it may not fit everyone’s definition of a smartphone, it certainly ticks most of the boxes. It has an open operating system, Qualcomm’s Brew platform, which has over 18,000 available applications and has been installed on over 1200 handset models worldwide.

Two interviews from this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: Jeff Taylor, co-founder of mobile phone producer INQ Mobile, and Simon Bransfield-Garth from voice security company Cellcrypt.

The three-year-old LiMo Foundation, which is committed to a Linux-based mobile software platform, has announced its fiftieth Linux-powered handset model this week.

Three NEC models and three Panasonic models for Japan’s NTT DOCOMO plus the First Else from Else Mobile have brought the group’s total number of mobiles to 50.

The LiMo Foundation also welcomed Adobe to its consortium this week, confirming plans to enable Adobe Flash support on the LiMo platform.