As well as supporting Android, Windows Mobile, having a mobile site, and having a mobile widget (more below), lastminute.com have announced today they have released their fonefood for iPhone client, and also a Symbian fonefood application.

The fonefood for iPhone client will show you nearby restaurants and any deals or offers that are available, and can also be used to search for the same information at other locations.

The Symbian application works in a similar way, offering to show you nearby restaurants, deals and offers.  To access this version, simply go to m.lastminute.com from your phone and it should offer you the option to download and install the application.

We didn’t cover much detail on the mobile widget before, but on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, this will also determine your location.  It’s also clever enough to set the language of the widget based on your phone’s language.  As this is a Symbian S60 5th Edition Web Runtime widget, it should work on all S60 5th Edition phones, including the new ones announced at MWC when they become available.

Good news for O2 UK, they have announced this week they have sold over 1 million iPhones.  Of course, that may not actually be 1 million customers, as some iPhone 3G users will still have their old iPhone in their cupboard somewhere from when they upgraded.  Either way, that’s still a lot of iPhones sold in the UK.

Of course, we mustn’t forget that it only took Nokia 7 months to sell 1 million Nokia N95 phones in the UK back in 2007 (across all operators), so although this is a very good figure for O2, it’s not a unique position to be in.

Although lower end phones are generally more popular across the whole mobile marketplace, these 2 phone ranges do stand out as the most popular high-end smartphones, and both stand head and shoulders above many other phones on the market. We wonder whether 2009 will bring a new champion…

Here’s the new Nokia E75 promotional video…

Interesting that Nokia say that the E75 is “Designed for email”; we say it’s designed for the connected person, as this device should prove useful for those using social networking sites, as well as those who just need access to email.  The QWERTY keyboard will be the key selling point for this phone, although some people are concerned about the slightly smaller battery and less internal memory compared to phones such as the Nokia E71 or the new Nokia E55.

If you are thinking the Nokia E55 is the phone for you, then this short video (again by Nokia) might be interesting…

Unlike the Nokia E55, which is not due for a few more months, the E75 should ship in the UK around the middle of March, and is already on pre-order direct from Nokia UK (currently in Red only, although the Red colour is growing on us) for £379, or you can pre-order the Nokia E75 (no colour stated) from Mobile Fun for £350.

E75 video provided courtesy of Just Another Mobile Phone Blog.

Over at Symbian Guru, they have documented a step-by-step guide on how to add an RSS status feed to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s Contacts Bar.  Although they concentrate on Facebook, it could equally apply to other RSS feeds, although the Nokia 5800 limits you to 1 RSS feed per contact, so you need to choose wisely.

The walkthrough is documented here as an article, and within their forums as well here.

I’ve been a big fan of TripIt for the last year or so. Whenever you receive an email confirmation of a flight, a hotel booking, hire car, even a train ticket reservation, you can forward this email to TripIt and they will convert it into a travel itinerary for you. This puts all your travel information into one single location. As they support iCal and RSS feeds, you can then get this information into other sources, such as your Calendar or other services.

About a month ago, TripIt announced a developer API program, which allows other companies (with your approval) to access this data, and the fruits of this are already starting to show with 2 iPhone applications now offering TripIt integration to enhance your travelling…

FlightTrack Pro (shown above, currently £5.99) is the first such app, which is designed to track all your flight details for you, with the ability to not only access the flight information, but also live weather, flight route maps, real-time flight status updates, airport time difference information, airport delays and closures, and will, in their latest version, also support importing the flight information from TripIt. Some of these features, including the TripIt support only come with the Pro version, so this is likely to be more useful to the regular traveller.

Now, most of this information is already available, but this app brings together a whole raft of different websites to bring that information onto a single screen, and that’s key to us; that little extra effort in integrating all that information can be so useful to some people. FlightTrack Pro should be able to link your TripIt information to airport information, thereby providing additional information such as last minute gate changes etc. It even features an offline mode to work whilst you are travelling at 30,000 feet and want to check the details of the airport you are arriving at, or even your next flight (although you won’t have information to the real-time updates).

If your travel plans don’t always revolve around flights, then TravelTracker (below, currently £11.99) may be a better app…

This covers all type of travel, allowing you to enter information on flights, trains, hotels, car rentals, meetings and driving, but again, offers that ability to integrate with TripIt to collect the data. Given that TripIt can pretty much handle all of those types of travel, it seems a nice combination to provide easy access to your trip data. It’s not as polished in some areas, eg accessing real time flight status takes you to a web page, whereas FlightTrack Pro builds the information into the application itself, but it does support some simple expense management, and even will track your frequent traveller cards and programs. As well as supporting the iPhone, they also support the iPod Touch.

Which one would we choose; well that’s the nice thing; use TripIt to automatically process the emails you are sent when you book the travel in the first place (they also support the major travel agents which are commonly used by corporate travellers), and then get the data fed seamlessly into both application; given you the best of both worlds; FlightTrack Pro for the best handling of the flights, with TravelTracker handling the rest of the travel.

What about once you’ve arrived, and you want to make notes and record information about where you have been, and what you have seen; well, maybe Geotags for iPhone is a good solution for you…

Geotags for iPhone is a free map-based application for the iPhone, allowing you to keep a record of places and things you have seen of interest, by marking on the map where you found them. As well as written notes, it supports photos and short audio files. Once you have collected the information, it can be viewed in Google Earth. Of course, you can achieve similar things with other services, such as Brightkite, which also offers a wider variety of method of locating yourself, and offers more of an overall social networking experience via their Brightkite for iPhone client, which is also free.

Finally, if geocaching is your thing (and if not, why not?!) then we’ve covered geocaching for the iPhone before here.

This level of integration with services such as TripIt, potentially resulting in not having to enter the information by hand on any system appeals to me, and I hope that over the next few months, we start seeing similar TripIt integration into Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile applications for non-iPhone using travellers.

Some content about Geotags for iPhone from TUAW; thanks to Mark at Automated Home for the link.

If you fancy leaving a USB car charger device in your car permanently, but don’t like the look of a normal device that sticks out (both physically and asthetically) then this might be the solution for you.  This miniature USB car charger is exclusive to Mobile Fun at the moment (in the UK) and is less than £15.  That’s more than a normal USB car charger, but in this case, you are paying for something that is more discrete.  If your current mobile phone / mp3 player charging cable has a car cigarette adaptor on the end, then Mobile Fun also have a range of USB based charging cables to help you out.

Head over to Mobile Fun for more information, although don’t forget the UK Gadgeteer Offers page currently includes a Mobile Fun offer.

Garmin have hinted about their Garmin nuvifone and their integrated location services, and how now provided more information on some of the functions that will be provided.

Firstly, “if you open a contact’s name on a nüvifone, you’ll have three primary options: call, text and go.  The call and text choices are traditional options found on most phones, but if you press “go” it launches the navigation screen and you’ll be navigating to the contact’s address.”

Another example is having the nuvifone’s location integrated with the calendar; “You can find an event in the area via the “upcoming events” option, then add it to the calendar with the click of a button. When it’s time to attend the event, your calendar will prompt you of the event and then you can navigate to the event by touching a button on the calendar page.”

These may only be little bits of information, but it certainly looks like Garmin have thought through what could and should be achieved, and are making a well integrated device.  Other phone vendors should be taking note of this information, and hopefully will be offering similar integration where it’s not available today.

3UK have launched a special offer in their 3Store.  You can sign up to an 18 month contract for a Nokia N95 8GB and get a free set of Nokia mini speakers as part of the deal.  This deal is highlighted on our new UK Gadgeteer Offers page, which will list all the special offers and discount codes we have managed to obtain with various online vendors.

fring have negotiated that their multi-IM / chat client will be pre-installed on the new Samsung OmniaHD we covered last week here.  fring have a similar arrangement with the current Samsung INNOV8 S60 phone, but since then, fring have extended their client to now provide add-ons, which include support for facebook and last.fm.

fring have also recently announced that they support xpenser, a free online expense recording tool which allows you to record your expenses via IM, Email, SMS and even twitter.  In fact, you have two ways of linking fring with xpenser, as fring can either provide the information to xpenser via GTalk or via twitter.  As fans of both fring and xpenser, we’d like to see even more support, where fring offers an add-on which provides a template to complete and then sends the information to xpenser.

fring is constantly developing it’s client, and things are looking good for the future.

Samsung OmniaHD information from Symbian Freak; xpenser information from fring and xpenser.

As part of their MWC coverage, LG also announced plans for greener phones.  They plan to release a solar powered phone at the end of this year, which will feature a solar panel embedded in the battery cover, which they claim will give 3 minutes of talktime from a 10 minute solar charge.  Obviously, it will give a much longer standy time, and LG claim it should even be possible to not need to charge the phone from a conventional charger “if left in natural light for long periods”.

Interestingly, they showed the phone alongside an LG LC-910 (LG Renoir) box and user guide, but the actual phone looks more like an LG Secret to us.  We suspect that the picture is simply a mockup, and we’ll actually see the solar powered technology embedded into a currently-unreleased phone.

LG have also announced a Solar powered Bluetooth Handsfree Kit for the car, and are planning to move to greener packaging on all phones during 2009.