Nokia has confirmed that the Nokia E7 Slider has been delayed and that it will be now launched early in 2011. Previously, we had heard release dates of this month which is now not happening.

The reason for the delay of this model is due to a minor durability issue that was found in the hardware, perhaps through the rigorous testing they perform on each of their handsets. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has announced that Gmail for mobile now works in 44 languages for users using the HTML5 version in the mobile browser on the iPhone and Android based smartphones.

The only language it was available in, right till yesterday, was US English. It is now available in the following languages…

Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

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We hear today that Toshiba is about to make a new plant that will be responsible for making LCDs for Apple [AAPL] products. The new plant will cost around $1.2bn and the LCDs it will manufacture will be small, perhaps specifically for the iPhone, iPod range of products.

The screens being built are high resolution, perhaps retina displays or similar. The current factory that Toshiba has is capable of building 8.55 million screens per month. The new factory is expected to produce double that amount. [Read more…]

Rovio has announced that they have hit 50 million downloads of the popular Angry Birds series of games.

The breakdown wasn’t fully complete when Vesterbacka spoke to TechCrunch, but what he did say was that 10 million of those were downloads on Android and we suspect that the majority of the rest will lean towards iOS rather than webOS versions. [Read more…]

The Nexus S is launching this coming Thursday over in the US. For those wanting to get hold of it, one of the options is Best Buy who have now released the details of what you can expect on December 16.

Best Buy will open at 8am and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis with varying inventory across the stores in the US. A maximum of two Nexus S smartphones will be made available per customer. [Read more…]

The T-Mobile G2 has dropped in price and is now available from T-Mobile for $49.99.

The price drop is in preparation for the holiday season although it’s also probably dropping in price as the Nexus S is launching in the next few days. [Read more…]

For those of you running Google Android 1.6 and above, the company has now updated the Android Market to a new version. This new version brings a few new features that helps you to purchase apps more easily although it’s not rolled out to all devices just yet. The release will be happening over the coming weeks.

With a focus on improving discoverability and merchandising, we’ve introduced a new carousel on the home and category screens. Users can quickly flip through the carousel to view promoted applications and immediately go to the download page for the application they want. Developers have been very active in creating great Widgets and Live Wallpapers. To make it easier for users to find their favorites, we’re introducing two new categories for Widgets and Live Wallpapers. Applications that include Widgets and Wallpapers will be automatically added to those new categories.

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Angry Birds Seasons is now available for those running a Palm Pre or Palm Pixi. The app can be downloaded from the App Catalog and costs $1.99.

The game works just like it does on the iPhone in that the Christmas levels work on an advent calendar system that allows you to progress 1 level per day with a count right up to Christmas day. [Read more…]

Infinity Blade for iOS devices launched last week on December 9th. Already it has become the fastest selling app beating the record that “Cut the Rope” had set a few months previously.

In terms of numbers, 271,424 people downloaded the game in the first 3 days. The game is priced at $5.99 which means it has grossed $1,625,829.76 at that point on December 12 when the 271K downloads had been captured. [Read more…]

The Google Latitude app for iPhone and other iOS devices is now available in the app store. The app first appeared last week but was quickly removed. This time it’s here to stay from what we understand.

What the Google Latitude app does is lets you track where your friends are on a map. When logged in to the system and when it’s enabled, your position on the globe is made available to your friends so that you can see who is where. [Read more…]

Back in November, a picture of the HTC EVO Shift 4G was spotted. That time, it was just the device front with the screen and 4 buttons below the screen.

We now see a picture of the same device but with the QWERTY keyboard out. The Shift 4G does have a case, so we don’t see exactly what it looks like, but we get a good idea of what’s new and different about this model. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] has posted a video demo of Google Maps 5.0 running on the Android 2.3 Nexus S smartphone.

The new version of Maps brings a few new features to Android devices which includes the ability to navigate in 3D around various cities around the world. The video embedded below shows how that works and what kind of frame rate is achieve which I have to say is quite impressive. [Read more…]