Lindsay Lohan gets her Bold on, Best Buy gets its iPhone on and HTC gets on with getting its Android on

The week in mobile news, over on our sister site Pocket Picks, began with a bit of good old fashioned celebrity tittle tattle.

It seems that while the rest of the world waits, Lindsay Lohan's considerable contribution to, err, 'enriching' the the world of films has earned her a Blackberry Bold ahead of its release (which ended up being later that week in the UK courtesy of Orange). It must make enduring all those blood sucking paparazzi seem, like, totally worth it.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, a Japanese modder turned his PSP into a touchscreen phone and someone posted a video of the nefarious 'I am Rich' iPhone application on YouTube. We think it's fair to say we've had better Mondays.

Almost immediately after that, however, things started to pick up, with news about the forthcoming Google Android OS breaking cover once more. First, HTC once again made it crystal clear that it still intends to release an Android handset this year and that it is definitely not behind schedule.

This was followed later in the week by some very convincing (if slightly blurry) video footage of the fabled HTC Dream Android powered handset causing jaws to drop and tongues to wag all across the land.

Nokia, meanwhile, had an especially quiet week, with its only headline concerning the release of two new beta apps – Nokia Email and Nokia chat – both of which look pretty interesting.

By contrast, over in the iPhone camp things were predictably busy. There were reports that Apple HQ may have a big fat red kill switch for any less than savory applications that manage to slip through the net.

Which will probably be useful considering the quantity of applications flying through the App Store. Apple reported early in the week that the App Store has made $60 million in its first month. iProfit anyone?

You'd think this would have Apple's competitors in the industry quaking in their boots, but not Nokia or RIM, both of which stated last week that Apple's iPhone is good for the growth of the industry.

Having said that, not everyone is allowed to play. Apple might be good for the growth of the mobile industry, but apparently Mozilla won't be seeing any of that action any time soon. Looks like we'll have to stick with Safari for the time being then (not that that's such a bad thing).

Another major company that might get onboard the iPhone party train however is American chain Best Buy, which is rumoured to have secured the rights to distribute iPhones in its stores. That had us wondering if Apple might relax its approach to retail with the iPhone on this side of the pond, but then we are an unreasonably suspicious and speculative lot.

Leaving the iPhone behind, then, last of the revelations this week were some other interesting, signs of the mobile times. So to speak. The regulatory body, Ofcom, called for mobile content to be filtered and rated according to age in the same way that films are at the cinema, which could provoke a seismic industry shift if it comes to fruition.

And to cap things off, some very lucky fellow was officially crowned the first mobile gambling millionaire by mobile gambling company Spin3 – great work if you can get it.

And with that, we'll leave you to grumble jealously. Click 'Track It!' so that you don't miss next week's Pocket Picks round-up. It won't make you rich, but it'll hopefully help you forget about the fact you're not.