11. Cheat in a pub quiz by sending a question via text message to the new ANSA Q&A service. Be aware that every other team is probably doing the same, mind.
12. Turn your smartphone into a streaming webcam. Just don’t get mucky.
13. Sync your Google calendar with your mobile using ZYB, as well as backing up your contacts. If you lose your phone in a raucous New Year’s Eve party, you’ll thank us for this.
14. Watch a few minutes of Player X’s Geek TV, and make sure you dive over a car bonnet while watching the Miami Vice bits.
15. Hook up with an attractive member of the opposite sex using mobile dating service CherrySource. Warning: it’s a bit fruity, so wallflowers probably shouldn’t apply. Then again, maybe it’s just what you need!
16. Get the infamous South Park Greenpeace ringtone, and weep hot, salty tears of admiration of Cartman’s crab-based guitar solo.
17. Ask an expert why you’ve gone green and got shooting pains since Christmas, using the Health-SMS service. Our opinion: you’ve overdone it on the sprouts.
18. Send a friend a text message from Skype rather than from your phone. And see how impressed they are. Or not.
19. Watch Sky’s mobile coverage of this week’s Ashes test. Okay, so this one’s just for masochists.
20. Download some Austen, Dickens or Conan Doyle onto your mobile, via the ICUE mobile books application. Culture, innit.
Got a new handset from, ahem, Father Christmas? Don’t just sit there calling people…
Phew. It’s almost Christmas, and we’ve still got about 18 presents to buy. We are considering buying relatives some good mobile games instead (ideally on their bills, obviously). If only we had a handy list of, say, the 50 best mobile games to have been released in 2006…
Who said gadgets had to be power-sapping earth-killers? Well, everybody. But at least someone’s working on making mobile phones more green. French designer 
No, 3GP isn’t what you see if you video-call a friend while they’re in the loo. Although it’s a thought. Instead, it’s the video format used by most mobile phones. Wondershare 3GP Video Suite is a PC application that turns pretty much any video format into a 3GP file, for watching on your phone.
Christmas is coming, and thieves are hoping to get fat (on the proceeds of nicking stuff from your car). Garmin has announced seven tips to help keep your satnav units safe:
HSDPA is definitely the next mobile acronym you need to be aware of, given that it promises broadband data speeds on your phone. Samsung’s SGH-Z560 was the first HSDPA-capable handset launched in Europe, running on T-Mobile’s web’n'walk service.
Oh, those spoilsports at LG have asked the Dial-a-Phone blog to take down its exclusive snaps of the new Prada-branded LG phone. Bah. Instead, they have pics now of LG’s KE850, which the new Prada phone is apparently based on, along with the information that the Prada one will have a white-on-black user interface, rather than blue-on-black.
