Most interesting news of today:

• Battery that ‘charges in seconds’ - by BBC News
  

A new manufacturing method for lithium-ion batteries could lead to smaller, lighter batteries that can be charged in just seconds.

Batteries that discharge just as quickly would be useful for electric and hybrid cars, where a quick jolt of charge is needed for acceleration. The approach only requires simple changes to the production process of a well-known material.The new research is reported in the scientific journal Nature.

• Handy Shopper reviewed for S60 5th Edition - by AllaboutSymbian

It’s smart, it’s fully touch and S60 5th Edition-optimised, and it can help you remember to get icing sugar for your partner while down the supermarket. Now how many other bits of software can do that? Handy Shopper represents the archetypal PDA shopping list manager application, here on Symbian OS, but Ewan’s been reviewing it and reckons that the code could form the basis of a pretty ‘handy’ project manager or to do list system as well…

• Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Hands-On Video – by Nokia Conversations
  

• Garmin Mobile XT Updated For The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic – by Symbian-Guru

While other touchscreen smartphones are waiting to use their GPS receiver for voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic now boasts two fully supported navigation applications that you can choose from! Garmin Mobile XT, which we’ve reviewed here on Symbian-Guru before, is now updated to v5.00.30, with support for the 5800 XpressMusic (and soon, the N97!). This new version offers a simplified, touchscreen-friendly layout, which should make it a cinch to use in a vehicle (with someone else driving, of course).

• Nokia continues to hemorrhage Smartphone market share to RIM and Apple – by Engadget
  

Rough morning for Nokia. After having its trio of new music-oriented handsets leaked, Gartner goes and releases a set of unflattering sales figures related to Nokia’s beleaguered smartphones. While smartphone sales overall increased 3.7% in Q4, Nokia’s share slid from 50.9% to “just” 40.8% on 15.6 million units. While many, including Samsung and HTC gained, it was RIM and Apple that made the biggest advances. RIM increased its share of the lucrative market to 19.5% (7.4 million units) from 10.9% while Apple more than doubled its share, up from 5.2% to 10.7% (4.1 million units). Keeping things in perspective: smartphones accounted for only 12% of all mobile device sales for the quarter. There’s a method to Nokia’s mid- to low-end handset madness.