What appears to be a standard HTC display slides right up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard in an age when devices are replacing physical keyboards with the touch-screen variety.

With the aim of the OS to drill into the Windows Mobile market, with the presence of the Touch Diamond and the Omnia in the market place both running Windows Mobile 6.1 and giving the brand a shot in the arm, The Gadget Monkey can only see Android stepping into line alongside all of the other mobile operating systems and waiting its term.

By defining Android as a WinMo competitor, Google are setting their sights a long way below the real target – the smooth, stylish but ultimately lacking in substance Apple iPhone 3G. Android is therefore unlikely to succeed.

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Thankfully, there are places on the web where music can be downloaded for free, without breaching anyone’s copyright.

These places are promoters of new, unsigned acts and take the shape of either social media sites, archives of live acts who are “bootleg friendly”, dedicated to promoting a new framework for musicians to earn a living without the thieving might of the record industry as well as a few freebies from established locations such as MTV and Last.fm

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There’s more going on of course than the devices inability to connect to secure networks - it just seems to pointless. Presumably, if you’re using Twitter on your DS, you’re on your DS, a device limited to a superb array of games. You can’t really do anything meaningful on a Nintendo DS, however, so why bother?

As things stand at the moment however, the latest Twitter platform is limited to Spanish.

That’s right, Mexicans can let the world know they’re having a plate of Nachos before beginning Guitar Hero on Tour, while Spaniards can let the world know what amazing footballers they have, but no one can actually do anything in English without knowing what the commands are, and sending to the right networks.

English version expected, however…

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The rather horribly-named UMMD 8010/F is equipped with an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and optional Bluetooth. There’s also a choice of XP or Linux.

The guys at Pocket Lint reckon it looks dull. Other than some odd port placement (VGA output on the right-hand side?) I think you’ll agree that it doesn’t look bad at all.

Typically for a Commodore machine, however (regardless of who owns them these days) the device is a weighty £325, and supposedly comes in white, black, grey and pink - none of which are pictured.

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Comes with Music will first appear on the Nokia XpressMusic 5310 handset and will be exclusive to Carphone Warehouse - who also sell the Apple iPhone. Comes with Music will be launched in the UK.

The service gives users a years worth of unlimited access to the whole Nokia Music Store catalogue - and after that time is up, all downloaded tracks remain with the user. That’s right - users can keep the songs they’ve downloaded! Nokia intend to generate revenue via the period beyond the 12 months -at which point further songs will be available at what Nokia describes as “a la carte” prices.

Should phone, music or license go missing, the Nokia Music Store will hold a personal “Music Vault” for each user, where all tracks previously downloaded can be regained.

Remember - Apple pay songwriters and artists pennies on iTunes, and the failing music industry virtually shakes their hands off. While not bringing the control of music back to the creators, Nokia’s entry into this market at least generates competition to iTunes.

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