Nokia’s next-generation phone, its only hope in the super-smartphone battle against the iPhone and an army of Androids, has just revealed that it’s going green. Nothing ecological – it’s just physically turning green, and we’ve reached such an insane point of smartphone saturation that such things are apparently important. We all remember how Apple’s unique white colour scheme redefined what “cool looking” was, but can the green go the same way?  Especially when it’s exclusive to Vodafone, whose colour is red?

The new Symbian^3 system may struggle for traction in an already stuffed marketplace, with the third-place Ovi Store going up against the App Store on one side and open-source Android on the other. The addition of infinite free GPS service might make it worthwhile for more casual users, but that’s not the N8′s function: it’s intended to go after the upper-end gadget hound – or at least any of them who haven’t already bought one of its rivals.