The original Motorola DROID could be set to get an OTA update for Android 2.2.1. The 2.2.1 is not a major update (AKA Gingerbread), but instead is believed to bring a few minor bug fixes to the smartphone.

It appears that Motorola has alerted its group of feedback members about a small update that will be launching soon. [Read more…]

Angry Birds Christmas edition will be launching in December. A Finnish TV station confirmed the existence along with the image on show below.

What can we expect from Angry Birds Christmas Edition… we suspect the same as always, ie a lot of fun throwing birds at constructions to squash the pigs in attempt to claim three stars…. mixed with a lot of snow, Christmas trees, presents and ice of course. [Read more…]

UberTwitter is coming to the iPhone. A press release pushed out has announced that the Twitter client is available for free in the iTunes store and is being made available as a Beta release for testing.

UberTwitter is one of the most popular twitter clients available and accounts for 10 million tweets per day from BlackBerry users. Moving it to the iPhone will further increase that number. [Read more…]

Yesterday, the iPhone Dev Team released the iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak in the form of Redsn0w 0.9.6b4. Since its launch a few problems have been noticed while running the tool. The Dev Team now recommends that an update to iTunes 10.1 is best and for those running the tool on Windows 7, it’s recommended that you run the app in XP compatibility mode.

Also, there seems to be some who are unsure what a tethered boot is. For those running newer hardware on iOS 4.2.1, when you jailbreak it will require a tethered boot for now. This means that every time your iPhone reboots (ie the battery dies or it crashes), you’ll need to be next to a computer and re-run redsn0w to boot your device. [Read more…]

Nokia announced the Nokia X2-01 a couple of days ago. Along with that announcement they also passed out details of the Nokia C2-01. The C2-01 falls in to the budget range of phones and from what Nokia tell us, it’s there cheapest 3G mobile phone available.

On the front is a small colour screen along with an alpha-numeric keypad. On the back is a 3.2 megapixel camera. For storage it has an SDHC card slot that can accept up to 16GB SD cards. [Read more…]

We just received an email showing a couple of iAd adverts showing up over in France on the SunLite App. The last we heard was that there was a December roll out in Europe starting with the UK and France first.

The images are marked with iAd in the bottom right of the screen and appear to be the real deal. What are your thoughts? Is Apple rolling out iAds in France a little early? Lets hope not… no time is probably good for most people. Send us your screen shots if you spot more in France. Larger images below. [Read more…]

Acer will be launching a new smartphone although the name of it is unknown at the moment.

From what we have heard, it will have a large 4.8 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 480 pixels. Acer describe the smartphone as 100% smartphone and 100% tablet with a screen size of 4.8 inches. The operating system running on the phone will be Google Android. [Read more…]

Sony has announced that it will be launching a couple of new reader apps. One is being built for Android OS based smartphones and the other is being built for iOS based devices. Each version of the app will be launching next month in time for Christmas.

It appears that the apps will work in a similar way to how the Kindle app works on these devices in that once you purchase books from the Sony Reader store, you’ll be able to download them to the app on the devices that run it. [Read more…]

Rovio, the company who makes Angry Birds, has confirmed that a sequel is launching soon. The Angry Birds 2 sequel will be launching on consoles as well as Facebook.

The news comes from CEO Peter Vesterbacka who said at the Virtual Goods Summit that Angry Birds 2 will surprise people and that they want to make it bigger than Tetris. [Read more…]

It is now possible to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 thanks to the latest Redsn0w update that launched a few hours ago. This jailbreak comes with a warning or 2 though such as recommending you jailbreak iOS 4.1 first so that you save SHSH before updating. This is quite a stern warning saying it will be needed in the future. Hopefully you didn’t rush and update to 4.2.1 just yet.

Also a warning that unlockers should stay on iOS 4.1 is given on the iPhone Dev Team website as the current baseband on 4.2.1 cannot be unlocked just yet.

As for the iOS unlock, the Dev Team suggest that an unlock will be available for the 3G and 3GS by the end of the week. [Read more…]

LG has announced on Twitter that a new LG Optimus One is launching. The new version will be white and looks to be launching in Korea right now.

The confirmation of the white LG Optimus One came from LGs public relations blogger, Ken Hong, who showed the above picture of the device. [Read more…]

Today saw the launch of iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With this launch the MobileMe Find My iPhone app became available for free as a service for iPad, iPhone 4 and the latest generation iPod touch users. Although that’s all well and good, it does leave out older generation devices from using the free service.

LifeHacker has put together a guide that allows you to activate Find My iPhone on the iPhone 3GS and any other older generation device. This is by no means a way to “get past the approved system” but an actual official way to get it working on the older generation devices. [Read more…]