Sony has announced a new official app for iPhone and Android based smartphones. The app is the official PlayStation App and has been designed to bring a number of PlayStation Network features to the smartphone.

When the app launches, you’ll be able to download it for free and once installed, check your PlayStation Network trophies as well as being able to keep up with friends games and online achievements. [Read more…]

Earlier today, we showed a couple of pictures of a new device believed to be code-named the LG B. The LG B has a very bright screen and is super slim from what we saw.

LG has now confirmed that this device is real and also have confirmed that they will have the device on show at CES in the next few weeks in Las Vegas. [Read more…]

Quest Visual has launched a new app in to the Apple [AAPL] iTunes store called Word Lens. The Word Lens app allows you to use the camera on your iPhone and point it at Spanish words. When it detects Spanish words, it automatically switches them to English words (and vice-versa).

The system works in real-time and uses the live image from the camera to superimpose the translated text on to, as seen in the image below. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has launched Google Maps 5.0 for Android. We briefly touched on the features a few days ago, and now we see it is ready for download.

The new version of maps is a big shift from previous versions in that Google now uses vectors to draw the maps rather than stitched together images. By using vectors, Google has been able to shrink maps down in file size by quite a lot, therefore allowing a number of locations to be easily stored off-line. As well as using vectors for the basic maps, Google has also created 3D buildings in various cities which allows users to quickly navigate and see the buildings around them. [Read more…]

Yesterday, we mentioned the details of the LG Optimus 2X. This will be just one of several phones launching by LG in the next year though.

Phandroid managed to get hold of some details of a smartphone code-named the LG B.

As can be seen in the screenshot below, the LG B (sat in the middle), has a very bright display. The phone on the left is the iPhone 4 and the one on the right is a Samsung Galaxy S. Each of those devices are known to have the best screens available at the moment. [Read more…]

Hackers have managed to root the Google Nexus S just hours after it launched to the public.

The Nexus S root allows users to gain full access to the file system of the phone and hence, make many changes to the Android operating system. Changes could include overclocking the Nexus S, changing the UI, installing a custom Android build as well as many other modifications. [Read more…]

iFixit has taken apart the new Google Nexus S. They have given the Nexus S a repairability score of 7 out of 10 due to needing a heat gun to separate the glass from the LCD.

One observation they made was that the curved Nexus S screen has only curved glass and not a curved LCD. iFixit found the Contour Display name a little misleading. [Read more…]

The Dell Venue is the Android version of the Dell Venue Pro (Windows Phone 7 device).

The Dell Venue has been announced by KT over in Korea. It has a 4.1 inch AMOLED screen and uses curved Gorilla Glass on the front panel. The OS running on the new Dell Venue is Android 2.2. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] has approved the Bing 2.0 app for iPhone.

New features of the app include quicker ways to find restaurants based on price range, cuisine, atmosphere and location. Also, movies can be found by name, location or theater. As well as creating new ways to search for things to do in your local area, Bing 2.0 also has Facebook integration as well as access to the Streetside service. [Read more…]

Several months ago, rumors were going around about the HTC Scorpion smartphone.

At the time, we heard that the smartphone was to use a 1.5GHz CPU that would be dual-core and that it would run Android 2.2. The Android 2.2 part has obviously been and gone as we are now transitioning to Android 2.3, but what we have yet to see is the phone or the processor. [Read more…]

Although we should see a couple of Windows Phone 7 updates arrive over the next 2 months, one of which will bring the much anticipated copy & paste functions to the device, we also hear that a major update is being built although the release date of that update is expected to be sometime in August or September of 2011.

This major update due towards the end of next year is believed to be codenamed Mango and will precede the Windows Phone 8 update slated for a late 2012 launch. We could perhaps look at Windows Phone 7 as being Windows Phone 7.5. [Read more…]

T-Mobile has dropped the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Samsung Vibrant.

The Galaxy Tab has been dropped from $399.99 down to $349.99. This price is for the model which requires a two year agreement to be signed. Full details of this offer can be found on the T-Mobile website. [Read more…]