On the day of the announcement of the Nokia N73 and N93, no prizes for guessing what Symbian's David Wood's latest topic is over on symbian.com. In Insight no. 8, he goes into even more detail than I've done in the past, estimating that the smartphone is on the verge of forcing into extinction over 30 categories of mobile device or service.

"Future historians of the progress of consumer electronics are likely to identify the date of 20th April 2006 as a significant landmark.  On this date, Nokia released news of its results for the first three months of 2006.  A remarkable highlight of these results is the fact that, out of the many scores of Nokia phones on sale, covering many different families of product, the Symbian-powered N70 was the highest revenue generator for Nokia during these three months."

Read on in the full article.