Google has agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility in a deal worth $12.5 billion. Everything's expected to be finalised towards the end of this year or in early 2012.

In a blog post, CEO Larry Page said "Motorola's total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies."

Wednesday's edition of The Fonecast sees Iain and James bringing their regular mix of insight and humour to a wide range of topics, from Ofcom's 'smartphone addiction' survey to Google's patent complaints and RIM's new BlackBerry devices.

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Mark Bridge writes:

David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, has just written a blog post that describes an 'anti-competitive strategy' against Android by companies including Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. Entitled "When patents attack Android", it points out that more than 550,000 Android devices are now activated every day... and says this has resulted in "a hostile, organized campaign against Android".

In this week's podcast we’re talking about smartphone sales from Nokia and Apple, redundancies at RIM, the closure of Google Labs, gesture recognition technology, customer service research and the growth (or not) of mobile payments.

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Mark Bridge writes:

We've had a week packed with financial figures. Microsoft, Vodafone and Qualcomm were all relatively upbeat with their quarterly results. A 'thrilled' Apple shipped over 20 million iPhones in yet another record quarter, while Nokia shipped less than 17 million smartphones (and almost 72 million other mobile phones) in its 'disappointing' quarter.