"Chinese manufacturer Ainovo has taken first place in the race to produce the world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the 7-inch Ainovo NOVO7."

"The notoriously secretive Apple has shown its friendly, fun-loving side and revealed the quirky codenames used internally for the various iterations of iOS."

"With all the legal battles Apple are currently fighting it's certainly come as a revelation that Camp Cupertino has licensed software patents to companies including IBM and Nokia."

"RIM have been having a bit of a tough time lately and their reputation amongst industry types has had a bit of a kicking thanks to the company's dithering in getting the new and exciting BBX-powered handsets announced (and the OS 7 toting ones promised ages ago launched)."

"The Sony Ericsson partnership, once an example of how industry partnerships could work well, is set to come to an end by the middle of next year, when Sony will take over the entire mobile phone division."

"Yes, the tablets of today are cool, handy devices, but if Samsung makes good on the promises from its latest video, showing a conceptual tablet with a flexible AMOLED screen, then the tablets of the future will make the current ones look ancient in comparison. "

"Seven year old boys can be real trouble. Getting mud on their trousers, putting a football through next door's window, and racking up thousands of pounds on the iPad. That last one not happened to you yet?"

"Whilst the Xperia Play has not been the hit that Sony Ericsson were hoping it would be, the Android gaming handset may be about to bring in more than it's fair share of new customers, as it's revealed its own little Christmas present, albeit three weeks early."

"Enjoy our roundup of ten mobile phone related news stories you may have missed this week including a super-slim new camera phone module, Nokia's dual-SIM X2-02 and how to get Windows Phone on your Android!"

"Blimey Charlie, is it Friday already? Well yes, yes it is. And that can only mean one thing - it's time for our tea-timely round up of all the mobileullar tech happenings from the past seven days. Now keen visitors to our site might have noticed that Pick of The Week didn't appear last Friday afternoon and for this we can only apologise. This was due to some IT-based shenanigans beyond our control (the tech bods here at P4u Towers said it was something to do with nasty software attacking our home on the web, but we reckon a particularly bored techy absent mindedly chewed through a cable). Anyway, enough of our chuntering, here's some lovely news parcels for you to get stuck into…"

"The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a snooping row has been called to account by a US Senator."

"Yesterday saw the announcement of three new tablets and a mid-range Android smartphone from Lenovo, leaving us wondering where their new top-of-the-range offering was hiding. Here's the answer, it's the LePhone K2 and it has been spotted alongside another mid-range Android phone, the S760."

"What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster!? Remember that song yeah? It was catchily dreadful. But in terms of the world of tablets, it could be about to take on added resonance and new meaning, thanks to the potential monster being cooked up by Samsung."

"Following the leak of a 5-inch tablet from Lenovo last week, the company has made it and three other new devices official. At a special event in Beijing, the wraps were taken off the LePhone S2 smartphone, the LePad S2005 5-inch tablet, the S2007 7-inch tablet and the S2010 10-inch tablet."

"Streaming music service Spotify has launched its own Spotify Apps platform, which developers and media partners will be able to use to build apps to run within the company's desktop application."

"Passengers on a domestic Australian flight this week may have expecting an announcement from the captain that their plane had arrived safely at its destination, but what they got instead was much more alarming."

"An investigation is underway after an iPhone apparently caught fire on an aeroplane."

"With surprisingly little fanfare Samsung has launched the third Wave mobile phone, featuring its Bada 2.0 platform. The S8600 was announced back in August, but the release date was never confirmed, however, it has now appeared on several European e-retailer sites all ready for the Christmas rush."

"Acer has launched two new phones this week, one of which we've been waiting for and the other coming as something of a surprise. First of all we've got the Acer W7, or Allegro as it's now called, the company's first Windows Phone 7 device. Springing a surprise attack is a new Liquid phone named the Express."

"BlackBerry has announced that a load of BlackBerry OS 7.0 handsets will be getting a contactless payment service called Telefonica Wallet for BlackBerry, sometime in the near future."