The Gmail Blog from Google [GOOG] has announced that it is extending the offer of free calls to the US and Canada throughout 2011.

When Google Voice was integrated in to Gmail back in August this year, the offer of free calls was originally planned to run till the end of this year.

In the spirit of holiday giving and to help people keep in touch in the new year, we’re extending free calling for all of 2011.

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The Palm Pre 2 is now available on the Rogers network over in Canada. The launch of the Pre 2 on Rogers was no real surprise as reports recently have been showing the Pre 2 dummy boxes in various stores around Canada.

As for the price, the Pre 2 costs $99.99 CAD but comes with a lengthy 3 year contract. If you are willing to pay $349.99 then you can get a two year contract and for those paying $399.99, you’ll get either a 1 year or a month-to-month contract depending on how much per month you are willing to pay. [Read more…]

Samsung has confirmed that it plans to support the Bada OS in the future in a big way. Right now, Bada is at version 1.2. Sometime next year the operating system will jump to version 2.0 and with that, a number of new features will be introduced.

Features we can expect in Bada 2.0 include multitasking, a new SDK, NFC (near field communications), revenue model support (operator billing and ads) as well as a number of other new features. [Read more…]

Infinity Blade for iOS based devices will be getting a free update tomorrow. The new game launched just a short while ago and is already getting its first update.

The Infinity Blade update will bring new armor, new helmets and a new level cap as well as the ability to buy your progress with real money. [Read more…]

Over the weekend, a new version of Fring for iPhone was added to the app store. The new version brings FringOut to the iPhone allowing users to make calls worldwide for a fraction of the cost of regular international calls.

As well as bringing FringOut to the iPhone, the company is also offering a free $5 credit for iPhone users stuck in airports. There’s a procedure to follow where you send a picture of your ticket to Fring via Twitter and when validated, you get free $5 credit to make calls to those you might be missing. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] last week put up four new job descriptions. The job offerings are all identical and request people to join the iOS development team. Each candidate is to be an expert in navigation software.

A few hints in the text, found here, indicate that Apple is working on some kind of navigation product for iOS based devices as each candidate needs deep knowledge of computational geometry or graph theory as well as experience developing navigation software. [Read more…]

We are hearing reports today that indicate that Nokia could be looking at creating a Nokia Windows Phone 7 device, perhaps next year.

Last time we heard of something like this, it was related to the Android operating system hitting Nokia. At that point, it was basically laughed off by Anssi Vanjoki who was the Mobile VP. [Read more…]

We all expected that the Carphone Warehouse would have the Google Nexus S ready for sale today. However, the release date for the smartphone has now been shifted a couple of days from the 20th (today) to the 22nd December.

No official reasons have been given for the delays although we suspect its the weather that simply delayed shipments from reaching Carphone Warehouse stores around the country over the last few days. [Read more…]

The guys over at XDA Developers have managed to port the Google Nexus S Android 2.3 OS on to the older Samsung Galaxy S.

The port of the OS was installed unmodified which in turn, means a few things are broken such as GPS (already broken, so not a problem), Voice, WiFI and a few other things although a few modifications should sort those issues out. [Read more…]

The HTC Wildfire Android 2.2 update will be pushed out this week for those in Europe. From what we understand, it will roll out to all European Wildfire smartphones.

After this initial roll-out is complete, it then moves on to the rest of the world and an estimated date of February 2011 is the time set for the roll-out to complete. [Read more…]

The Google Nexus S release date is today here in the UK. When the price was first announced, the Nexus S weighed in at £549 which was actually higher than the dollar amount in the US, making it very expensive.

Now that the Nexus S is on sale, we see that Carphone Warehouse has dropped the price down to £429.99 which is a nice saving from the original amount. [Read more…]

Amazon has updated the Kindle for Android app which is now at version 2.0.

The new version of Kindle brings a few new features which includes the ability to buy and read over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines on the smartphone. Other features see an integrated store feature being added. [Read more…]