Mark Bridge writes:

BlackBerry and bad news seem inextricably linked at the moment. RIM’s CEO admits he’s “not satisfied” with recent company performance and warns of challenging times ahead... and then the company is hit by a $147 million dollar damages order for patent infringement.

Mind you, Research In Motion wasn’t the only mobile company bringing disappointment into the mainstream news last week.

ZTE Corporation has published a preliminary announcement of its results for January to June 2012.

The company says net profit is expected to be down between 60% and 80% compared with the same period last year, resulting in an anticipated profit figure of between 154 million Chinese Yuan Renminbi (£15.5 million) and 308 million RMB.

This week's edition of The Fonecast takes a look at the new Google Nexus 7 tablet, wonders what's next for RIM and awaits the arrival of the forthcoming Firefox mobile platform.

There's also talk about HTC's partnership with Pioneer, Vodafone's European reorganisation, the new BT WiFi brand, Ofcom complaints, tariff problems and international roaming.

Mozilla, the non-profit organisation behind the Firefox web browser, has said it’ll use the ‘Firefox’ brand for its forthcoming HTML5-based mobile operating system. A number of major mobile network operators have already expressed their support for the project.

TCL Communication Technology (which uses the Alcatel One Touch brand) and ZTE plan to produce the first Firefox OS devices.

Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE Corporation has announced its results for the financial quarter that ended 31st March 2012.

Operating revenue was up 29.46% year-on-year to $2.96 billion, while net profit was up 23.85% to $22.99 million.