Happy new year everyone, hope you haven’t still got a sore head!

Its going to be another wonderfully exciting year in the world of mobile phones, here’s ten things to look out for in 2007!

Nokia N95. What a phone! The Nokia N95 will probably be with us in early to mid 2007 and it looks like being worth the wait. It’s the first Nokia to feature an enormous 5 megapixel camera, and it also crams in built in SatNav, an MP3 player, a DVD-quality video recorder and 150 MB of internal memory. I want one.

Mobile TV – Is 2007 the year for Mobile TV? Maybe. We can already stream our home digital TV pictures on our mobile through Slingbox, and BBC, ITV and Channel4 have all signed up with mobile networks to start broadcasting across the mobile platform. From today Sony PSP users will be able to access clips from the new series of Celebrity Big Brother over WiFi, it can’t be long before mobile users will be able to do the same.

LG Chocolate Gold/Platinum. The LG Chocolate was one of the successes of last year, a great looking phone complete with a stylish touch screen display. The Gold and Platinum versions will be released later this year and look even more cool. I love that angular look!

Mobile Internet. Mobile and internet providers spent 2006 joining forces, expect more of the same in 2007. 3 have lauched X-Series that provides broadband internet over the phone, while Orange, Vodaphone and BT are entering the home broadband market. Google already work with T-Mobile, Yahoo with Nokia and there are rumours that Google is teaming up with Orange to produce a super internet phone!

Samsung F500. How sexy is this! Samsung’s imminent update to its Ultra range looks incredible. The F500 is a dedicated video phone, and its sister the F300 is going to be for music. They are double screened, with one on each side, and look fantastic.

Location based services. This could be the year that location based services really start to make inroads into our mobile lives. Working with advanced GPS positioning systems we could soon be receiving local information and services at the touch of a button. More and more phones are going to come with built in SatNav, and Google are going to really start pushing their local services to mobile users.

Nokia 6300. Tipped to be one of Nokia’s big sellers of 2007, this is a tidy looking slim phone with a smart stainless steel finish. Aimed squarely at the middle of the road market, it’s got enough gadgets to keep it up to date, and it should be pretty affordable too.

3 billion mobile users. In 2007 the global mobile population is expected to top 3 billion for the first time. That’s almost half the world’s population! A further one billion phones are expected to be sold in 2007, and in this country we’re going to reach saturation point as the mobile phone ownership reaches 100%.

Apple’s phone? Who knows? No official statements have been released, but predictions are being made for an early 2007 release. Can Apple conquer the mobile phone market as well? Watch this space! Check out our own mock-ups of the Apple phone as well!

Skype phones? Surely its only a matter of time before we see dual GSM/WiFi phones! Skype have been revealed to be working with Nokia, Motorola and other phone manufacturers, so soon we could be switching between network and internet phone calls. 

Sounds like a busy year.