Good work by the research team at the University of Gothenburg, which has a bright future as respectable-looking, labcoat-wearing con men if this whole science thing doesn't work out. The three-person team gave phones with Instagram to a bunch of people at a museum and watched what they did with them.

With smartphone interaction mostly relying on sight, since there's no tactile difference to what's on the screen, some blind people have turned to apps to make up the difference. These apps can do some pretty impressive things, like determine the denomination of currency or read text out loud, rendering braille unnecessary for some tasks. But those were workarounds, to make up for the inability to create an actual braille interface. For about three years, a team of inventors in India have been working on a smartphone that can turn apps and text into braille. Now they've got a prototype.

We've had a good time with the Necomimi Cat Ears in the past - we used them to monitor our interest in the last iPhone event - but the Good Times project is a use for them we never expected.

Right now, in California, Facebook is announcing its new phone - or, at least, it's new homescreen. We'll be updating this post live as events happen.

There have been rumours of a Facebook phone for years. Back in 2011, there even was one, sort of, in the HTC Chacha, a cheap but not bad little phone with an oddly out-of-the-way Facebook-labelled button. But now the rumours are heating up. Tomorrow, Facebook is hosting an event, and the invitation says "Come see our new home on Android."

My first smartphone was a BlackBerry Curve. I have nothing but fond memories of it - the speed and ease of typing on that keyboard, the battery that lasted for days and days, the indestructibility of the thing. I think a lot of people feel that way about BlackBerry. Which makes it all the harder, because if BlackBerry had released the brand-new Z10 even just two or three years ago, it might've had a fighting chance. I like the way it thinks about some things - the gestures are cool, the homescreen's great - and the hardware is excellent.