The battleground between Google and Apple is about to get explosive, as reports revealed that Google is in talks over creating its own music download store. Reuters reports Google is in talks with music labels about creating a download store, as well as a cloud-based music service that would allow mobile users to play songs …

The Nokia C5-03 is another in its C5 series of budget phones, but those crafty Finns have added a dash of quality by sticking a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and 3G on it. Unfortunately, the 3.2-inch touchscreen of the C5-03 is the clunky resistive kind, which you might be familiar with from old devices such as the Nokia 5800. Newer, pricier Symbian …

There’s a whole lotta Android love from Samsung this morning, with a white version of the Samsung Galaxy S smart phone available from the Carphone Warehouse, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab pictured with a brand-spanking new Super AMOLED screen. The white Galaxy S is available for pre-order from Carphone. The Android 2.1 handset, which will be bumped to 2.2 with …

We’ll soon find out whether the Liquid Metal lives up to its fabulously badass name, as Acer’s red-hot new smart phone will be available in the UK from mid-November. The nanomorphing mimetic poly-alloy mobile will have an 800MHz Qualcomm processor, running Android 2.2 Froyo. It has a 3.6-inch capacitive touchscreen display and a 5-megapixel camera. This will boast an LED …

The Acer Liquid Metal smart phone is real, and will be coming out at the end of October. An Acer spokesperson has confirmed that the Android 2.2 device will hit the UK at the end of next month, according to Electric Pig. This likely confirms that the images of the phone we saw pop up on a Russian blog last …

Alcatel, famous among skinflints across the land for its serviceable budget mobiles, is threatening to go all lah-de-dah by bringing out an Android smart phone. Worry not, cheapsters, because it’s set to cost just £99.95. The OT-980 is Alcatel’s first Android-based slider phone, with a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen and a Qwerty keypad, reminding us of a low-rent Palm Pre. But …

Virgin Media is offering a really, really affordable (that means cheap, you guys) mobile phone with some funky pink and black styling. The VM202 costs £30 on pay as you go, including 300 free texts when you buy it with £10 airtime, which is practically giving it away. It’s part of Alcatel’s budget range of mobile phones, which is squarely …

Master of cheap and cheerful mobiles Alcatel has decided to get serious, offering a phone with a BlackBerry-style Qwerty keyboard for less than 50 quid. For the princely sum of £44.95, Phones4U is offering the Alcatel OT-802 on pay as you go. As well as the Qwert stuff it has an optical trackpad, 2-megapixel camera, Web browser, FM radio and …

Alcatel’s superbudget OT-980 showed us that Android smart phones could break the £100 barrier, and just days later Orange has repeated the trick with a phone called the San Francisco, a 2.1 Eclair-running device for £99 on pay as you go. It’s the latest in Orange’s range of budget smart phones that have many of the features we expect from …

The LG Optimus Star has been pictured again, this time switched on and running a version of Android, but it isn’t Gingerbread. First pictured by Engadget, more images of the device were then revealed by a member of Androidforums.com and published on Phandroid. It is running an LG skin with Android 2.2 Froyo, which means it might not hit with …