MuscleNerd has just launched RedSn0w 0.9.5 Beta that allows iPhone OS 4.0 to be jailbroke.

This is a beta release of redsn0w targeted at developers of jailbroken apps. It uses the same pwnage2 DFU-mode exploit that we’ve been using since the 2.x days. Nothing new is revealed to Apple, and it’s not applicable to the iPad. Don’t go near it if you use yellowsn0w, ultrasn0w, or blacksn0w.

As warned above, this isn’t for regular users. First off, you need to be a developer to get iPhone OS 4.0 on your iPhone (the beta version as the public hasn’t been release yet), and also there isn’t much that can be done just yet as developers haven’t really created any apps for 4.0 that would work on it just yet. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] have made the DROID Incredible official by way of a press release. The press release confirms all the details we have already seen such as the Android 2.1 operating system from Google [GOOG] along with a 3.7 inch AMOLED screen and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU.

The press release also confirms the April 29 release date with an on-contract price tag of $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate.

The phone it’s self is said to have seamless integration with Exchange ActiveSync and as it’s an Android 2.1 based smartphone, it also gives access to the Google Market Place where you can download from a library of 30,000 apps. [Read more…]

Motorola have outlined their Android 2.1 roadmap to get all their Android handsets current with the latest version of Android, ie, 2.1.

There are currently six Android phones listed by Motorola of which the DROID has already gone through the process of OTA updates to Android 2.1. Next on the list is the MILESTONE that also has had updates pushed out to it and this process “should” be complete by now.

The Motorola CLIQ and CLIQ XT are both pencilled in for a Q3 OTA update and following that is the Motorola BACKFLIP and some country versions of the DEXT. The Motorola DEVOUR however, is under review perhaps due to how recently it launched. [Read more…]

Several days ago we posted about a hack that could be made to a jailbroken iPhone OS 4.0 3G device that allowed it to run multitasking. The reason the hack needs to happen is that the iPhone was deemed by Apple [AAPL] not to be up to the task of multitasking due to insufficient RAM and a slower processor.

The hack involves applying the iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak and then editing a .plist file which simply has a line in it to enable or disable multitasking.

We came across the video below just now that demonstrates the multitasking on an iPhone 3G. From what we see it does run fine with the voice in the video saying that the processor seems not to be the issue here. [Read more…]

Evan Williams of Twitter announced at the Chirp conference that the microblogging network will be launching an Android app.

Right now it isn’t clear who will create the app, as in will it be built in house or will they acquire a company and work on their app, or if they will even higher 3rd party developers. Either way, the official Twitter Android app will be coming sometime soon.

Saturday just gone, Twitter acquired a company called Tweetie who created a very good twitter application on the iPhone. Now that this has been purchased the application is being called Twitter for iPhone and will not be charged for like it currently is. We are unsure of the time line but we suspect the minor changes to price and a name are just going through app store approval which should be complete by the end of the month. [Read more…]

In an interview with Charlie Kindel about Windows Phone 7 he has mentioned that Microsoft [MSFT] will be adding features over time to the operating system. In the past he said that Microsoft have tried cramming all the features in to Windows Mobile. This in my opinion, has caused the OS in the past to not be where it should be. Microsoft are not focusing on doing it well.

The reason for adding features over time is to not rush them in to production models. Rather than adding a function like copy and paste, it will be added at a later date when they get it right. This follows how Apple [AAPL] work in some ways in that they don’t introduce something till it is done the best way possible. [Read more…]

Verizon [VZ] have published the official specs for the DROID Incredible by HTC on their website.

The specs are as we expected in that it has a 3.7 inch OLED touchscreen that can display a 480×800 resolution (WVGA). The camera on the back is capable of capturing in 8 megapixels. The operating running on the HTC Incredible is Google Android 2.1. The full run down of specifications can be found below… [Read more…]

Samsung have unveiled the Samsung AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600 in to the Korean market. The AMOLED Beam is a successor to the Haptic Beam and has uses a Samsung AMOLED screen (as the name suggests) to enhance the quality of the phone and provide richer images.

The Beam part of the phones name also indicates the presence of a pico projector. The built in projector is capable of throwing an image up to 50 inches diagonal on to a nearby surface allowing you to watch video more comfortably or view photos with friends. The projector has a 9 lumen rating for brightness. When compared with the older Haptic Beam the AMOLED Beam is about 1.5 times brighter.

The touchscreen on the device measures 3.3 inches and is in a WVGA resolution. [Read more…]

The Nokia N8 was first spotted a few months back and over time we heard that an official announcement would arrive in April with a launch of the phone in May. We have now heard rumours that say the launch will be delayed.

The tip came from GSMArena who says the launch was pushed from late May to mid July. It also appears that O2 will be stocking the phone in the UK due to the tip coming from an O2 shop worker who spotted the N8 on their system. [Read more…]

The Game Gripper is a device designed for the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE that allows you to use the keyboard as a game controller.

The device slides over the keyboard of the DROID and essentially moves the D-Pad that’s on the right of the DROID keyboard to a controller like D-Pad on the left side of the keyboard in a more familiar place.

As well as moving the D-Pad to the correct location, 8 buttons are also added that can be customised for playing games on your DROID. [Read more…]

The lG LU2300 was first spotted back on April 7 at which point it was referred to as the LG Aloha. The phone has now been made official when LG made an announcement about it.

The phone is to be called the LG LU2300 and when launched will run the Google Android operating system. The Android version will be 2.1 from what we have heard.

Feature of the phone include a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and the phone it’s self is powered by a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. The phone is a slider phone with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the side of the device. [Read more…]

A few days ago Apple [AAPL] surprisingly approved the Opera Mini web browser for the iPhone. Opera have designed their browser to be faster than Safari with claims from the company saying it can potentially beat it speed wise by up to 5x.

Of course 5x is quite a bold statement to work, however after testing my self, seeing a video online and seeing some test results compiled by LifeHacker it seems like this is almost the case in some instances which is quite impressive.

Opera Mini achieves fast page loads on the iPhone due to caching pages and compressing pages and images severside before the iPhone receives the information. By doing all the hardwork on a powerful server(s) before it gets to the iPhone, it simply lets the iPhone download the pages requested and due to them being compressed it also means less data to transfer to your phone. [Read more…]