We spend our days jabbering endlessly into our phones, so it’s not surprising really that there’s software about that allows you to talk directly to your phone as if it were another person. Kind of like cutting in the middleman. Isn’t that grand, your phone will never hang up on you, or sit there blasting loud, hurt breaths down the line at you until you apologise for missing their birthday. VoiceSignal is voice recognition software that allows you and your phone to bond with a degree of interaction some might regard as unhealthy. You can dictate messages, search for and call contacts, summon apps with but a word; you speak and it obeys. Well, that’s the idea at least. At a loud and busy show like this, muttering ‘contacts’ into the base of the phone illicits the same sort of cold shoulder your girlfriend was just giving you. Aaah! Now even your phone hates you! Voice recognition still has a way to go methinks.

The next time you proudly exhibit your holiday snaps to an ‘enthusiastic’ family audience you can truly astound them with your beautifully stiched together landscapes. The approbation you receive will be thanks to a neat little app from Scalado. It detects the movement of your smartphone camera and so allows you align three photographs and create a perfect landscape montage.

In the beginning there was a trickle of Symbian smartphones, that became a river that became a flood, that became 247178 and counting.

Expect to see something like this on Daniel Craig’s wrist come the next Bond film. This Sony Ericsson watch has built-in bluetooth for those tricky conversation/time interface moments. ‘oh do pay attention Bond’

Need to say something in Chinese but lack the font to do it? It’s a common problem for those of us that are localising our globalisation. Monotype, the font of fonts, may have a solution.

Tomi gets evangelical, waxing lyrical about the 7th mass media and the collision of the 4 Cs, connectivity, culture, commerce and community. For a man who’s just got off a plane from the US, he’s remarkably chipper.

Slow-motion tool case combat? Symbian Academy is doing its best to empathasise with its target audience. You can play too. Simply wend your way to the Symbian Developer Network Live! stand and look for the tools.

Those that labour under the misconception that it’s ‘all work’ be assured, your faithful blogger was given a 2 minute break in which to set the record on the wiimote-N95 game… Any challengers? No, William, you need to hold that by the other end…

Application X takes 2.3s to load on a vanilla phone. Add the new Symbian demand paging and it takes 1.35s… We just saved 44%. To me, that sounds like an impressive number, so I checked with William - who is very demanding - and he confirmed that it is.

Demand your pages people!

As bleary-eyed delegates slope through the doors there’s no question who wins the show popularity contest. No, not William and his surly repartee. It’s the man who makes these (he’s on the Symbian stand).