Vodafone have finally listed the Sony Ericsson X10 on their site and have given it a release date of April. The X10 is not available for pre-order just yet, but does have a registration form allowing you to sign up to receive details of when you can pre-order it.

The Sony Ericsson X10 is SE’s first Android based smartphone to hit the market and has been seen around several times keeping people wondering when it will actually arrive. The X10 has a 4 inch touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi to name a few things. [Read more…]

Some information has been discovered which indicates that the next generation iPhone could be capable of capturing video at HD resolutions of 720p.

The signs come from information that was revealed in the latest iPhone OS 3.2 SDK that was launched last week and reveals that the width of images has been upped from 768 pixels wide to 1280 pixels and is capable of capturing 921,600 pixels. A bit of quick maths shows that the vertical amount of pixels would be 720 making it 720p. [Read more…]

Since the latest iPhone 3.2 SDK was launched last week a couple of companies have announced that they have updated their iPhone applications to allow VoIP calls. Those companies include Fring and iCall.

With two other companies offering VoIP over 3G, a number of people have been wondering where Skype stands in all of this as their application has yet to be updated.

An answer was given yesterday by David Ponsford who says that Skype are holding their application back a little longer so they can fine tune it to give the best call quality possible. Although no official date for release has been given his answer simply said “soon”. [Read more…]

Starting today, the source code for the Symbian platform has been made open source and available for download.

‘The dominant operating system provider out there is Symbian, says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, ‘and now we are offering developers the ability to do so much more.

Symbian is the operating system used on the majority of Nokia mobile phones and according to statistics it runs on a massive 330 million device. The operating system has been used by Nokia for about 10 years now. [Read more…]

After just announcing that over 1 million downloads of Ovi Maps Navigation were done in the first week of it being made free, we came across this cool little game called Ovi Maps Racing that allows you to race around streets anywhere on the globe.

The cool looking game has the ability to track your current location and allows you to create your own race from the streets where you live. The software lets you build your own tracks up by specifying which way to turn at various junctions. [Read more…]

The Sony Ericsson X1 is normally a Windows Mobile based smartphone, however, this particular X1 has been modified and now runs a version of Android.

The video below gives a demonstration of how the X1 can handle the Google [GOOG] Android operating system. At the moment it isn’t quite up to speed with other Android based devices but mainly this is down to control of the device looking slow (maybe to do with the resistive touchscreen rather than capacitive) which makes gestures and flicks a little harder to achieve. Also the phone doesn’t seem as responsive when transitioning between different menus and functions. In saying that, it isn’t terrible by any means and it does look responsive enough to use. [Read more…]

Ovi Maps recently just became free allowing navigation to be used around the globe, free of charge. As can be expected, the number of people downloading Ovi Maps jumped substantially and from what Nokia have reported, the software was downloaded over 1 million times within a week. With over a million downloads per week that is almost 2 per second constantly for 24 hours a day.

‘This is great news for our third party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps Anssi said.

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VisualBoyAdvance is a Gameboy/Gameboy Advance emulator for webOS based smartphones. It was first launched just a couple of weeks back on January 14 and since then has managed to almost get to the point of running at 100% speed.

VBA is opensource software that can be used on a number of operating systems with webOS being one of the latest it is being ported to.

Full details on how to get VBA working on webOS can be found on their current wiki page. Details of how to get ROMS is not provided although a quick search should help you track some down. [Read more…]

Nokia have just launched a new firmware for the Nokia N97 smartphone. The new firmware ready for download is version 21.0.0.045.

This latest version has been built to fix a number of small bugs and according to Nokia, improves call reliability as well as internet browsing including the kinetic scrolling that can be found in version 20.+.

The firmware is currently available only as a download where you will need to tether your phone to a computer to perform the upgrade. If you want to wait a little longer then Nokia will release the update as an over the air (OTA) update. [Read more…]

The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad all use the same operating system although the iPad when launched will run version 3.2. There are a few differences in OS 3.2 which can now be put on to the Apple [AAPL] iPhone.

To achieve getting the 3.2 functionality on to OS 3.0 on the current iPhone you need to jailbreak your phone first. Once done you can simply install a number of apps that replicate the functions of the iPad such as a new iBooks Store, iWorks suite etc… [Read more…]

Last week we reported that the HTC HD2 going to the T-Mobile network in the US had a little extra RAM. This led to beliefs that the Windows Mobile 7 update would be going to the US T-Mobile versions but not to other HD2 users across the globe. However, a bit of investigation in to other HD2’s with the lower amounts of RAM has revealed that they might actually have the extra 128MB sitting dormant waiting for a firmware update to open it up.

The details were found by the guys on the XDA-Developers forum who found a leaked ROM/Radio upgrade where the hidden RAM was unlocked. [Read more…]