Apple [AAPL] has released a new update for iBooks. The new update is version 1.2 and it brings several new features to the iPhone and iPad (and iPod touch).

New features include better and fully illustrated books allowing childrens books to look better as well as for other books such as artbooks to get a makeover.

The update also brings more organisation to your library and now allows you to organise the library in to collections. The Books/PDF buttons have now been replaced with a single button that takes you to a list of folders. Here, you can create new collections such as study books etc… and then put books in to the folder to keep things more organised. [Read more…]

Firemint has launched a free Flight Control game for those with an iPhone or iPod touch.

The free version is a fully working game with just 1 level to play through. As it’s free, the game is ad supported.

Firemint mention in their blog post that the game has all the options as well as Game Center integration. The only downside is that you do see ads and you only get that original level. [Read more…]

LG has announced the LG Optimus 2X. The Optimus 2X runs a 1GHz dial-core processor (NVIDIA Tegra 2) and has a 4 inch WVGA screen. Other features include 8GB of memory that can be expanded a further 32GB by using a microSD card.

On the back is an 8 megapixel camera and on the front, a 1.3 megapixel camera. HDMI mirroring is available on this device and it is capable of playing 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 content. [Read more…]

BGR had some interesting thoughts in an article published today. They are hinting at the AT&T [T] iPhone exclusivity ending within the next few weeks, ie 31st December this year. They then go on to suggest that Verizon [VZ], who is taking the stage at CES 2011 in early January could invite Steve Jobs on to stage to announce the Verizon iPhone 4.

Verizon will actually be announcing its 4G network (well, LTE as it’s not really 4G), at CES which makes the likely hood of Steve Jobs joining them on stage a little less of a possibility as we assume the iPhone 4 will not be compatible with Verizon’s new network unless it has some fancy chipset inside. [Read more…]

Three in the UK has announced that they are scrapping data limits on the Three One Plan. The service is described by Three as being a truly unlimited data plan that has no hidden fair usage limits. Instead, you just use what you want from what we understand.

The One Plan has a price tag of £25/month and with that you get 2000 minutes, 5000 texts as well and up till now, 1GB of data of which the limit has been taken away. [Read more…]

TouchType has upgraded its Android keyboard app and has now given it HD graphics. The new HD layout allows it to function better on larger screen devices such as those with 4 inch and above screens and specifically, the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

As well as bringing higher resolutions, the keyboard app also brings several new languages to Android that allow users to get suggestions now in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Norwegian and Polish. [Read more…]

Sygic Mobile Maps is now available for the Nokia N8 smartphone. The Mobile Maps brings turn-by-turn navigation to the N8.

As well as working on the N8, the new maps navigation app is also compatible with other Symbian^3 devices. [Read more…]

Engineers along with a number of students have attached Nexus S smartphones to balloons and lifted the smartphones in to space.

The team uses seven Styrofoam beer coolers with a side cut out and replaced with plastic. A Nexus S smartphone was attached to the plastic side with the camera facing out to film what was happening. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] is rolling out a new service that allows the company to learn your voice and how you speak. The reason for doing this is that voice to text services are occasionally a bit off. You say one thing and the conversion says something completely different in the transcript. By learning your voice, Google can see patterns in how you speak and how you pronounce certain words. It can then adapt accordingly to your voice. [Read more…]

Infinity Blade for the iPhone and IPad (and iPod touch) launched last week. We now hear that a new update is incoming as early as next week.

The new update will bring five new weapons to the game as well as five new shields, five new helmets and new armor. As well as the new weapons and defense features, the game will have a new level cap of 45 added to it. [Read more…]

The Facebook app for Android has received an update. What the update brings to Android smartphones is the ability to chat with friends with the integrated chat service. Also, push notifications have been added to the app.

Prior to the release of the latest Facebook app, users had to rely on 3rd party apps to use Facebook chat. LifeHacker is reporting that the integrated chat is working quite well. [Read more…]

AppleInsider has posted an interesting report created by Piper Jaffray…

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects Apple to sell just 2.5 million additional iPhones in the US by adding Verizon as a carrier early next year, bringing 2011’s US iPhone sales to 20 million, with Verizon’s sales largely coming at the expense of AT&T.

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