New research from Ofcom shows that 27% of adults (and 47% of teenagers) now own a smartphone. Most of these people have acquired their device in the last 12 months.

Ofcom's Communications Market Report also reveals that smartphone users make more calls and send more texts than regular mobile users, with 81% of smartphone users making calls every day compared with 53% of 'regular phone' users.

Mark Bridge writes:

Last month, News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch said the News of the World had accounted for just 1% of his global business. It's a figure that put the overall size of News Corp into perspective.

This week, some analysis of Microsoft's financial results seems to suggest Windows Phone is only generating a similarly small percentage for its parent.

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".

Research In Motion has announced five new smartphones based on the BlackBerry 7 operating system.

Three will join the BlackBerry Torch model range, the other two are BlackBerry Bold models. It's RIM's largest-ever largest global launch, involving more than 225 carriers and distribution partners worldwide.

We're covering another batch of quarterly results in this week's podcast - and we're also looking at what this has done to smartphone market share.

Elsewhere there's interesting news that could affect the Sony Ericsson partnership, there's a new 'Facebook phone' from Vodafone, there's new connectivity coming to BlackBerry users - and there's a new Nokia smartphone, complete with a new naming strategy.