Dell has officially announced that the Dell Venue will be made available to those in the US. The company announced it over at CES 2011 in a press conference that was held. In that meeting, Dell also confirmed that right now they have no carrier partners which means the smartphone will be made available on the Dell.com website.

With no carrier partners, it also means that the device will be sold unlocked. A T-Mobile version might happen from what they’ve said, but the unlocked version wont work on the T-Mobile 3G bands. [Read more…]

Sony Ericsson has announced a new smartphone called the Xperia Arc. The smartphone will run the Google Android operating system when launched, and surprisingly it will be Android 2.3 rather than the older versions that SE commonly chooses.

Features include a 4.2 inch touchscreen (multitouch) along with an 8.1 megapixel camera. The sensor in the camera is an Exmor R sensor that is capable of capturing video at a resolution of up to 720p. [Read more…]

More pictures of the HTC Thunderbolt 4G have been captured and put online just before the expected official announcement at CES 2011.

What has been learned from the hands-on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G is firstly, that the battery seems very bad although that could potentially be fixed with a few software tweaks. We also learn that it has an ARM v7 processor with a Single Core running at 1GHz.

Other details show it has 8GB of internal memory along with the ability to add another 32GB to the device via a microSD card. The device has a 4.3 inch screen. [Read more…]

Members of the XDA Developers forum have managed to overclock the Google Nexus S up to speeds of 1.2GHz.

The factory rating of the Hummingbird chip that it uses is 1GHz, so the 200MHz increase is very welcomed for anybody wanting to speed up their new Nexus S smartphone. [Read more…]

A Windows Phone 7 developer called Vangos Pterneas has created a facial recognition system for WP7 based devices.

The new system uses the Facelight libraries that are open source.

Using Facelight is a piece of cake. You only need two XAML image controls placed in the same position. The upper one (named ImgResult) will contain a red ellipse specifying the recognized face and the other one (named ImgOverlay) will contain the original bitmap source.

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A new NES emulator for the Windows Phone 7 platform has been created. However, it wasn’t approved for the Marketplace for the reason quoted below…

If you post a game/image/source that uses unauthorized intellectual property, we will delete it immediately. This includes technologies that are clearly intended to enable unauthorized use of intellectual property, such as game console emulators.

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Samsung has announced that the Galaxy S range of smartphones have hit 10 million in sales since the launch in 2010.

According to the numbers calculated by Samsung, the company has successfully sold one Galaxy S every 2 seconds since its original launch date about 7 months ago. [Read more…]

Skype for the iPhone has received an update bringing it up to version 3.0. This is the very same version we reported on a couple of days ago that had leaked on one of the Skype websites.

What Skype 3.0 brings to the iPhone is video calling, but video calling isn’t restricted to just WiFi, good news here is that Skype allow video calls over WiFi and 3G.

Two-Way video calls can be established between various devices including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen although on the 3GS the rear camera will need to be used which doesn’t help things. [Read more…]

The Windows Phone Marketplace appears to be off to quite a good start. We hear reports today that there are now a total of 5,000 apps in the Market ready for users of WP7 smartphones to download.

To put this in to a bit of perspective, webOS has a similar amount of apps if we understand correctly. The BlackBerry App World has around 15,000 at the moment and Android/iOS each have a huge amount of apps available for download. [Read more…]

The message above shows what we could be seeing early next year… that is video calls on Skype on a Verizon iPhone if the image is to be believed.

As well as posting the image above on the Skype website, some documents were also posted that provided details on how to use video calls on the iPhone 4 using Skype. [Read more…]

Nike has launched a number of apps for iOS based devices, more specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch. These include Nike+ GPS, Nike BOOM as well as a number of Football apps. The latest is the NikeWoman Training Club app that acts as a personal trainer for users.

The app size is a healthy 655MB in size which is due to a number of training videos that are included in the app which assist you in exercising correctly. [Read more…]