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Steve Litchfield is a writer, editor and presenter, best known for his work in the mobile industry for publications like "All About Symbian", "Smartphone Essentials magazine" and the podcasts "The Phones Show" and "Phones Show Chat".

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Trained in physics at Oxford University from 1980 to 1983, Steve programmed for, and ran computer systems for, aerospace firms until 1993, when he started the semi-official Psion (palmtop) shareware library, distributing on floppy disk to users round the world. This became CD-based in 2000, though with the rise of the Internet, the need for physical software distribution tailed off quickly.

As the main writer and editor on Palmtop magazine (created by Steve Clack, of Bicester, running from 1995 until about 2002), Steve also helped the publication evolve into PalmUser magazine and then eventually the cross-platform Palmtop User magazine, which eventually folded around 2005 again due to competition from Internet-based publications.

From 2001, Steve wrote for PDA Essentials magazine in the UK - this was eventually renamed to Smartphone Essentials but eventually folded by Imagine Publishing in 2011.

From 2002, Steve joined the writing team on All About Symbian, which is still active in the present day, along with a side project, All About Windows Phone.

From 2006, Steve has been podcasting in video form (via RSS/MP4 initially and then later via YouTube as well) as The Smartphones Show, renamed in 2009 to just The Phones Show. A companion audio podcast has been running since 2010, which Steve co-hosts with Tim Salmon.