Notes from a wireframe world

We’ve been doing a little bit of digging to find out who, in the UK, will be offering Motorola’s Droid handset. The Android 2.0-sporting QWERTY slider scored a whopping 9/10 in its Pocket-lint review, we’re not seeing any sign of the handset in Britain despit it being on sale last week in the US.

We gave all the UK operators a call to find out exactly whether any of them were planning on stocking the device. O2 told us that it wasn’t going to be selling the handset, despite its German wing selling it as the “Milestone”. 3 said the same thing – there are no current plans to offer the handset at this time.

We spoke to Nicola Shenton, head of handset and device marketing at T-Mobile UK, who told us that the company had tested the phone, but passed it up. We also talked to Orange and Vodafone. Orange told us that it had nothing to announce other than the fact it’s selling the Motorola DEXT, and Vodafone promised to call us back but haven’t.

From that, we can rule out three of the major five operators. Orange is looking likely, especially given the non-denial when other networks were happy to confirm “no”. We’ll update you as and when we hear more from Orange or Vodafone.

They may have a crap app store, but RIM, makers of the blackberry smart phone, are the fastest growing firm, worldwide, Apple makers of the iPhone come in 39th place on the list, while Google came 68th.

Fortune rates a firm’s growth on a combination of its profits, turnover and investment return over three years.