This morning, the Three UK network Blog posted a video demonstration of the new Samsung Galaxy Pro smartphone that will soon be launching on its network.

The technical specs show that it has a 2.8 inch screen which is capacitive touch. The screen takes up about half of the screen unlike the regular Samsung Galaxy which covers the whole front panel. This is of course, because of the QWERTY keyboard that takes up the bottom side of the device. [Read more…]

pandaelf Labs has created a system that allows PS3 games to be played on any iOS device which includes iPad, iPhone and the iPod touch.

The system isn’t self contained in that you actually play the PS3 games that are stored on the device. Rather, you are connecting up to a PS3, PC and various other bits of hardware so that you use the iOS device as an interface.

The process is that the capture device streams live video from the PS3 to a computer. You then connect everyAir on iOS to the computer and with a few tweaks to the hardware, the interpreter knows what buttons you’ve pressed on the screen, sends them to the PS3 which then streams the appropriate video content back through the PC. [Read more…]

The iOS 4.3 GM seed has been released by Apple to developers. This particular version is the final step before the official and final launch that will see iOS 4.3 being publicly made available on March 11.

With this particular step in the testing phase, it also now signals the point at which developers can start submitting iOS 4.3 compatible apps to Apple for approval. [Read more…]

Problems became apartment last month when Microsoft [MSFT] pushed out the first Windows Phone 7 update to all devices. Mostly, things went very smooth but for those with a Samsung Omnia 7, there was a different story. Reports soon came in that the upgrade process was breaking several steps in and when users saw crashes on a specific step, it actually bricked the device.

In response to that, Microsoft pulled the update for Samsung users. We now hear that the problems have been resolved and that the updates are now working correctly. [Read more…]

For those running an Experia X10, you now have an option to install Gingerbread. Before you run and try grab the download, there’s just a few things to point out.

First, this update is not official, so run at your own risk and make sure you follow any instructions. It is best that you avoid if you don’t know what you are doing.

Second, as it’s not official, not everything works as it should. For example, there’s no sound in this build and the camera also doesn’t work. [Read more…]

Apple has announced that the iOS 4.3 release date will be March 11. Several updates are included in this version which includes the new Personal Hotspot feature that we have seen before in the beta versions as well as on the Verizon iPhone 4.

We also see that Apple has increased the performance of the Safari browser and made improvements to AirPlay.

For compatibility, you need to be running one of the following devices: [Read more…]

Square has announced that it is now seeing more than $1,000,000 per day in sales from people using it’s small device. Last fall, the company was processing around a million dollars per week, so what we see here is quite a decent sized increase in the number of transactions being made.

The number of merchants being signed up has increased to about 100,000 per month which is up from 30,000 per month from last fall. In Quarter 1, Square expect to process $40 million in transactions. [Read more…]

It seems like Google has taken notice of the bad apps that started showing up in the Android Market recently.

A total of 21 free (and popular) apps have been taken down due to them having alternate motives… ie, they had malware in them designed to take control of any Android smartphone installed on. [Read more…]

Evernote has today, pushed out an update for the Evernote iOS app. The update is specifically designed for the iPhone and iPod touch and brings a whole new redesign to the app.

The team behind it used their know-how to create what looks to be a fantastic update. In their own words: “we went back to the drawing board and reconsidered every single aspect of Evernote for iPhone.”

[Read more…]

Stephen Bates, the MD of RIM in the UK, has said “We’re going to deploy NFC in virtually all of our devices,”. This was clarified as being virtually all BlackBerry devices as well as tablets that are launched from now onwards.

When speaking about NFC the following was also said… “creates new businesses, new markets and new revenue streams”. [Read more…]

Microsoft has announced that several games are coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform. Several popular games are mentioned in the list which includes the famous Angry Birds along with Doodle Jump and Plants vs Zombies to name a few.

The list forms part of the spring lineup and each game is expected to arrive on the WP7 Marketplace on April 6th. [Read more…]

iOS 4.3 has hit Golden Master stage which means it’s almost ready for launch. When iOS hits this stage, it is common for the public release to follow about a week after. This changed when iOS 4.2 was released due to some WiFi bugs found late in the game, however, it is normal that GM is finalized code.

With the code being finalized, it will now be ready to launch and rumors are hinting that it could be announced alongside the iPad 2 on March 2nd (Wednesday) next week. For those who like to track these things, the build number should be 8F190. [Read more…]