This week's podcast covers Nokia's results warning, Sony's planned reorganisation, the EC's mobile payment investigation and much more. Join Iain, James and Mark for another entertaining look at the mobile phone industry.

Nokia has announced that it’ll be producing an NFC version of the Nokia Lumia 610 smartphone.

The Nokia Lumia 610 NFC has been certified for contactless payments with MasterCard PayPass technology and Visa payWave. It’s expected to launch on Orange networks early in the third quarter of 2012.

Figures from ABI Research forecast that mobile users will download nearly 36 billion apps in 2012.

Android and Apple’s iOS will make up 83% of the app downloads, while only 2% will come from Windows Phone devices. However, although the Microsoft figure is relatively low, it’s double last year’s share.

Microsoft and Nokia are each committing to invest up to €9 million (a total of around £15 million) into a mobile application development program at Finland’s Aalto University during the next three years.

It’ll be called AppCampus, it starts from May 2012 and it’s been set up to encourage the creation of innovative mobile applications for the Windows Phone, Symbian and Series 40 platforms.

Mark Bridge writes:

Sometimes I’m a simple soul. This is one of those occasions. I simply don’t get what all the fuss is about.

Sales of Windows Phone 7 smartphones have overtaken Symbian device sales in Great Britain for the first time ever. Yes, the new heavily-promoted mobile phones from Nokia are more popular with consumers and retailers than those using the obsolescent Symbian OS. Windows Phone 7 now has 2.5% of the British smartphone market, compared with 2.4% for Symbian.