Good morning, folks. We’re up bright and early in Barcelona to catch the latest announcements from Nokia (three new Android handsets!) and Sony. Follow our live blog below to find out more about these and everything else we uncover on the show floor throughout the day.

Charlie is also running a live blog over on Cult of Mac, and you can tweet us at @killianbell and @mistercharlie if there’s anything you’d like us to check out — or just to say hello.

BlackBerry’s chance at clawing back smartphone share and mounting any kind of a threat against Android and iOS looks slimmer every time the company announces its sales figures. It seems increasingly likely the Canadian company will eventually have to sell off its smartphone business or turn to Android in an effort to survive.

But despite what you may think, the BlackBerry 10 operating system isn’t a complete write-off. In fact, there are lots things it does incredibly well. Having used it myself for quite a bit over the past 12 months, I’ve compiled a list of five features that I think Google should steal for Android.

Since its inception, Android has had true multi-tasking allowing people to run multiple apps in the background without restricting their functionality. Back in the day, this was all one would have wanted from their Android device.

With time though, Android devices grew more powerful and started packing bigger screens. Soon, we had multi-view multitasking on Android devices, thanks to Samsung and other OEMs. 

Adobe killed Flash Player for Android during the Ice Cream Sandwich days and suggested that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean users uninstall the plugin from their device. However, to the delight of many — the Flash player plugin worked flawlessly on Jelly Bean powered devices right until Android 4.3.

Thanks to some underlying changes in Android 4.4 KitKat, the Flash Player plugin does not work properly on the latest version of Android. As always though, someone from the Android community has managed to find a workaround to get Flash Player to work under KitKat. 

Wondering when your smartphone will receive the much-anticipated Android 4.4 KitKat update? Well, hopefully this will help to shed some light on the answer to that question. Thanks to a series of leaks, rumors and announcements, we have created an ‘update guide’ containing all the handsets we believe will receive the beefy upgrade this year.