Not exactly current news, but perhaps this might cheer someone up who's having a bad day: digging through AAS's archives reveals a series of predictions made in June 2002 by a venture capitalist giving a speech at a mobile developers conference. You can read some of these gems below, and I think you'll agree it's pretty amazing how "on the money" his forecasts have been...

• Symbian, Palm and Windows Mobile will all have disappeared by 2007-2010

• BREW will become the dominant phone development environment by 2007-2010

• Nokia definitely won't be number one manufacturer in 2007, though it could be Motorola or perhaps Handspring

• Cameraphones will be failures

• Gaming on phones will be much more successful (this was the year before the original N-Gage launched, which was criticised for not having a camera)
  

• Music phones are an "early adopter fluke" which won't catch on

• Productivity applications interfere with phone calls, so they will fail too
  

• 3G is "all talk and no action"
  

• Video telephony will be huge

• ...and the utterly immortal phrase: "BREW will be the iMode for the rest of the world"

...so pretty good, eh?