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.

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 - before moving on to the rest of the mobile industry headlines.

Mark Bridge writes:

Those quarterly figures keep coming. In our Wednesday podcast we talked about Apple and Nokia – and since then we’ve heard from Everything Everywhere, LG, Motorola, Samsung (with its multi-million selling Galaxy S II), Telefonica and Virgin Media. Each had something positive to stay, although some were more convincing than others.

Samsung Electronics has announced its profits for the second quarter of 2011.

Revenue was up 4% year-on-year to 39.44 trillion Korean Won (£22.8 billion), while consolidated net income was down 18% year-on-year to 3.51 trillion KRW. Consolidated operating profit for the quarter was 3.75 trillion KRW, down from the company's record figure in Q2 2010.

The International Data Corporation has calculated that worldwide mobile phone shipments were up by 11.3% in the second quarter of 2011, even though feature phone shipments dropped for the first time since Q3 of 2009. Its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker reports that 365.4 million units were shipped in Q2 2011.

IDC says the feature phone market shrank by 4% year-on-year - and isn't expected to grow by more than 1.1% in the future.