Yesterday, LG published a Facebook update (now deleted) that said Android 2.3 Gingerbread would not land on the Optimus line of smartphones due to it requiring a 1GHz processor to run it. Optimus smartphone use a 600MHz processor.

Shortly after that, @morrildl tweeted a “random note” as he called it and said that Gingerbread had no hard minimum processor requirements. [Read more…]

HTC has announced, or confirmed we should say, that Android 2.3 Gingerbread will be rolling out to a number of HTC smartphones over the coming months.

HTC has not confirmed which of the HTC devices will be getting an Android 2.3 update just yet although we suspect that anything built this year will get the update. [Read more…]

Best Buy will be offering a free iPhone 3GS this coming Friday in a single day sale. On December 10, tomorrow, you’ll be able to pick up an iPhone 3GS completely free although a contract is needed.

The offer is valid for users who need a new line, additional line or for those eligible for upgrading. [Read more…]

Infinity Blade for the iPhone and iPad has now been launched. The game is created by Epic Games and uses the new 3D engine to power the stunning graphics.

Reviews of the game are positive…

**IGN: “A surefire Game of the Year contender. It just may be the best iPhone game of all time.”
**TouchGen: “This is the best game I’ve played on my iPhone. This is the game we’ve been waiting for!”
**Slide: “A unique and enthralling experience from the start.”
**Ars Technica: “It’s one of the few games on the iPhone that if I were to get an e-mail tomorrow saying that it’s available, I would stop everything I was doing, find my iPhone and buy it.”

[Read more…]

Andy Rubin has confirmed on Twitter that each day, 300,000 Android phones are activated.

That’s a very impressive number. Only back in August of this year, Eric Schmidt announced that 200,000 were being activated daily which shows a huge increase in 4 months. [Read more…]

The HTC Knight was first heard of a while back. It has also been referred to as the HTC Speedy. We now find that some official pictures have been put online over at HTCPedia for you to have a scan through.

The device is a 4G WiMax phone that has a slide out landscape QWERTY keyboard. On the front is a forward facing VGA camera. The screen measures 3.7 inches. [Read more…]

Eldar Murtazin managed to somehow get hold of a Nokia X7. The Nokia X7 was first leaked a few weeks ago and at that point, it was revealed that it has four speakers and with it being in the XSeries of devices, it is also geared towards media.

Eldar wasn’t kind on the X7 it seems as the machine translation of some of his words converts to… “I do not like this device”. Other observations made, include the AT&T logo at the top of the device. [Read more…]

The Three network in the UK is starting to push out the Android 2.2 update to Samsung Galaxy S smartphones locked on its network.

Three, just like other networks, is unable to push out the Android 2.2 update OTA to the Samsung Galaxy S which means users will need to connect up to the KIES software tool to grab the update. [Read more…]

The Google Nexus S from Samsung will be launching in the next couple of weeks in the US and the UK. When it arrives, it will have a Super AMOLED screen. We are hearing reports today though that indicate the Super AMOLED screen will be replaced with a Super Clear LCD screen over in Russia as well as potentially, a few countries in Europe.

The reasons for the switch are not known and at the moment, we are not sure 100% that this is for real or not. If so, it could be due to shortages as the new production line at Samsung will not be opening till 2Q 2011 for Super AMOLED screens. [Read more…]

Well, it looks like the untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak release date just got a little closer with Musclenerd uploading a video to youtube demonstrating an iOS 4.2.1 iPod touch 4G booting untethered and then loading up Cydia.

Up till now, the iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak has required the phone/iPod to be tethered when booting, so the progress demonstrated on here means we are a step closer to getting rid of the wires when booting up. [Read more…]

webOS 2.0 has references to a Virtual Keyboard within its code. With webOS 2.0 being available now, it now emerges that the virtual keyboard reference is more than just a reference. Instead, there’s a fully available virtual keyboard that can be “hacked” open on the Palm Pre 2.

To get it working requires that you make a change to the internals and specifically the line that says “VirtualKeyboardEnabled=true” needs to be modified to say just that. Once done, you get a keyboard on-screen. [Read more…]

Copy and Paste for Windows Phone 7 is believed to be just around the corner, perhaps sometime in January when WP7 devices get an update.

Someone has posted a video of a Samsung Windows Phone 7 device running copy and paste functions. The system works by tapping on the screen. A word is then highlighted (you can copy more by moving the sliders around). You then tap an icon to copy and when in a location on the phone where you can paste, you’ll see a small paste icon just above the virtual QWERTY keyboard. Tap it and your copied content is pasted in. Simple stuff really! [Read more…]