Enjoy our roundup of ten mobile phone related news stories you may have missed this week, including leaked Amazon App Store pricing, BAFTA’s for iPhone games, some interesting Nokia Beta Labs apps and another Xperia Play advert! Or if you’re eyes aren’t up to reading all this text click the video above for our bitesized version.

1. Amazon App Store Pricing Spotted

Amazon are preparing to launch their own Android app store, and a preview accidentally went live yesterday, giving us a sneak peak at the pricing and apps on offer. There were several apps priced a little cheaper than their equivalents in the Android Market, but the savings were minimal due to the low pricing of apps anyway. T he store is expected to go live very soon.

2. Google Planning NFC Tests in US

Google are said to be planning a series of NFC mobile payments tests in key US locations in the near future. They’ll supply and pay for the installation of the contact-less payment registers, ready for Android users to pay for goods and services without using cash or card.

3. Cut the Rope Wins BAFTA

iPhone puzzle game Cut the Rope becomes the first iOS game to win a BAFTA award after it scooped Best Handheld Game! Having sold around six million copies, Cut the Rope was hugely successful on the iPhone, and it beat several Sony PSP and Nintendo DS games also in the running for the award.

4.  iPhone 5 could get NFC after all

At the start of this week, The Independent threw a spanner into the iPhone 5 rumour mill by reporting that Apple won’t be including NFC technology on its devices until the iPhone 6. Now, we’re back to square one after Forbes reporter Elizabeth Woyke tweeted: “Just met with an entrepreneur who says the iPhone 5 *will* have NFC…according to his friend, who works at Apple.” Guess that solves it.

5. Trio of HTC smartphones leaked

HTC has been subject to some leak-action this week as three handsets made it out into the open. First up is the HTC Pyramid, the firm’s first dual-core smartphone which will apparently run Honeycomb. The HTC Ignite and Prime also showed up and will be joining the Windows Phone clan.

6.  Nokia Shoot and Tag Lets You Skip to the Best Part

We’ve got another Nokia Beta Labs project for you, and it’s perfect for the brilliant N8 video camera fan. Shoot and Tag automatically adds tags to your freshly shot video, a little like chapters on a DVD, to any point where it sees a change in the onscreen action. You can add your own tags to a finished video too. See it in action in the video below:

7.  HD Horizons Will Demo Nokia N8′s Camera Ability

Jason Hawkes, a respected aerial photographer, will be using the Nokia N8 to shoot stills of some of the UK’s incredible landscapes, all from a helicopter. The photos will appear on Nokia’s Facebook page on the 21 March, and you can see the teaser video below.

8.  Another Stolen Body Parts Video from Sony Ericsson!

Remember the Xperia Play ad where we saw a pair of human thumbs being grafted onto an Android? Here’s the prequel, explaining where the thumbs came from!  Nice, Sony Ericsson, really nice.

9. +YvesBehar Phone Costs Lots, Does Nothing

The +YvesBehar phone is another entry into the designer device canon, where function takes on that of a very basic feature phone, but the design is catwalk cool. Designed by Yves Behar (who’d have guessed!), who also did the UI, the phone costs $10,000/£6,200.

10. Music Video Shot on an iPad 2

Unsure of whether the iPad 2′s 720p video performance is up to much? The music video below should silence the doubters, as it looks really great!  The fast movements and low lighting conditions are difficult for any consumer-grade video camera, but the final result, shot and partially edited on the iPad 2, shows this probably won’t be the last time Apple’s new camera-equipped tablet will be used in this way.

Enjoy our roundup of ten mobile phone related news stories you may have missed this week, including Flash 10.2 on your phone, Conde Nast magazines on your Android and some very cool limited edition badges from MWC.

1.  Flash 10.2 On Its Way

Flash 10.2 has only recently found its way onto PCs, but Adobe say the latest version will be making its mobile debut soon too. The source code has been released to manufacturers and when it does arrive, they’re expecting performance improvements alongside better use of resources and improved battery life.

2.  Optimus 3D Game Titles Revealed

Alongside the Xperia Play, the LG Optimus 3D was one of the most exciting MWC announcements, and developers Gameloft have confirmed they’ll be supporting the 3D smartphone. Best of all is that three of their games, first-person shooter N.O.V.A., racing game Asphalt and golf sim Let’s Golf! 2, will all be standard games on the device at launch.

3.  Sony Ericsson Play Dock Launched

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was one of the highlights of Mobile World Congress, and if you’ve already decided to pick up the PlayStation phone on release, you may be interested in the official dock too. Naturally, it will charge your phone, but it also offers a line-out connection and adapts the phone into an alarm clock too. It’s out in March.

4.  iPhone Users More Valuable to Advertisers

According to ad company Mobclix, it’s iPhone users who have a higher ‘average revenue’ figure compared to Android users, putting the figure at $9.50 and $7.20 respectively. They also show that 33% of Android users click in-app adverts, while only 26% of iPhone users do. The figures proably make sense when they estimate that 57% of all Android apps are free (i.e. ad supported) as opposed to only 28% in the App Store.

5.  Android Badges at MWC

If you were already disappointed you weren’t at Mobile World Congress to see all the cool new phones, then you’ll be doubly so when you see these amazing limited edition Android pin badges given out to attendees! There were 86 designs to collect, but with only 1200 of each one made, they were probably very sought after.

6.  Android Video Editing Picture

Engadget sneakily snapped a picture during Google’s MWC keynote, and caught the forthcoming Movie Studio editing software that will appear on Honeycomb tablets later in the year. They say the software will allow editing, effects and audio manipulation.

7.  Nokia C5-04 Headed for US

Despite all the Windows Phone 7 talk, Nokia are still releasing their bread-and-butter phones, and the C5-04 looks like the latest one headed for the USA. Appearing on Bluetooth’s certification website, it’s speculated to be the Nuron 2, a phone potentially being released by T-Mobile.

8.  Conde Nast on Android

Although publisher Conde Nast already has a strong presence inside the Apple App Store, they’re not stopping their digital plans there. The magazine giant announced Wired and The New Yorker will be released for Android in the near future.

9.  Into Android?  Make Yourself an Avatar!

If you want to create your own Android mascot avatar, then look no further than Androidify, a new app now available in the Android Market. It comes from Google themselves and allows you to get really creative!

10.  Sick of Smartphones, Try the Just5!

Smartphones aren’t the only game in town you know, and for those who don’t want a million and one features, try the Just5 CP11. It’s name says it all, as it has just five features: a speaker, a radio, an emergency call button, a thermometer and a torch. Quite when a speaker became a feature, we’re not sure, but we love the Just5 and its cute slide-up screen!