Some leaked information has revealed that the HTC Mondrian Windows Phone 7 smartphone will be also landing on a mobile network over in Germany. Up till now, we had only heard of the AT&T version.

Part of the giveaway is that the device has some of the German language on the screen shots. The information isn’t official just yet and there isn’t too much we know about the Mondrian. [Read more…]

It appears that a T-Mobile G2 has been delivered a little earlier than expected. Someone managed to get their hands on one from somewhere, either through the post or perhaps a store worker.

The lucky person managed to capture some video of the device showing it being unboxed and having a quick test to show us what its about. As we often see with sneaky early videos, the phone is captured by blurry cam which means the quality isn’t good at all although you do get an idea of how it looks and what its about. [Read more…]

The Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint model) has a problem with 3G upload speeds. An OTA update released recently was expected, by users, to fix this although unfortunately, it did not.

Sprint was aware of the problem though and have now managed to fix the problems with upload speeds. The new update is being released as early as today, September 30. [Read more…]

The UK Mobile network, Vodafone has yet again caused a bit of a kerfuffle (understatement) due to their latest update for the Samsung Galaxy S.

Many had believed that they would finally be able to get the latest update for Android, being 2.2 (Froyo), but this could not have been further from what was actually recieived. Instead rather, it seems that many forum members and Galaxy users have snarled at Vodafone in shovelling “bloatware” onto their new phones with apps that are either not needed, that cannot be un-installed and which take up valuable space or that many find, now finding performance issues such as increased call-dropping as a result of the new update. [Read more…]

The TechCrunch Disrupt conference introduces a number of unique ideas that intend to disrupt how things work… hence the name.

One of the apps revealed is an update to the Paypal App for the iPhone. The new version will make it possible to deposit checks by taking a photo of the front and back. Once done and submitted, the checks are then deposited in to your Paypal balance making them ready to withdraw when needed. [Read more…]

We have seen a hack before that allows the iPhone 3GS to get HDR photography. This modification required that you jailbreak the iPhone 3GS and edit a file to activate the feature.

What we hear now is that Apple [AAPL] could have intended on the iPhone 3GS getting HDR photography all along. The information comes from a couple of images of the HDR button found in the firmware for the phone. Two image files were found. One of them had a retina display enhanced version of the HDR image (button found at the top of the screen when capturing an image). A second lower resolution image was also found that looks to be optimised for the regular display.

What this indicates is a couple of things. Either Apple intended the HDR feature to be included in iOS 4.1 for the 3GS, or that they might add it in the future. [Read more…]

The Nokia Conversations blog has announced that the first batch of Nokia N8 Symbian^3 smartphones have now let the production lines and factory over in China. What this means is that the official launch is just around the corner.

No specific dates of delivery have been given other than a hint of the devices arriving with customers over the coming weeks. The N8 is launching globally which means that production of the device will be ramping up over the coming weeks to make sure there is plenty of stock available in all countries that the device will land in.

For some users who were the first to pre-order, you could actually get your device before the weekend which basically means you’ll get it either today or tomorrow. [Read more…]

About three weeks ago, Rovio launched a beta version of Angry Birds for Android OS based smartphones. This is the first time the popular iPhone and iPad game has arrived on Android based devices.

The good news for Rovio is that the beta version has been downloaded over 1 million times in the last 3 weeks which is a very impressive number.

Rovio has also commented that this is their largest beta test ever for a mobile phone platform. [Read more…]

Windows Phone 7 hardware is classified in “chassis”. The main Chassis that all current test devices have been are Chassis 1 devices which basically means a large screen covering the face of the device with just three physical buttons below the screen. An optional slide out QWERTY keyboard also falls in to the Chassis 1 category with the LG C900 and LG GW910 being the only Windows Phone 7 devices that currently use that option.

Chassis 2 details have now been revealed. The screen resolution on these devices will be 480 x 320 which leaves room for a physical QWERTY keyboard on the front of the device, ie like a BlackBerry or E series Nokia.

WP7 devices will have one of two screen resolutions – either 800 x 480 for large touchscreen devices with the potential for slide-out Qwerty keyboards, or 480 x 320 for ‘BlackBerry’ style handsets that can incorporate a Qwerty on the front of the device. Microsoft expects the majority of WP7 devices to have the larger screen resolution at launch, with smaller resolution handsets coming later, said Foster.

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HTC looks to be launching another QWERTY slider Android OS based smartphone. It looks similar to what we have seen before, as in the HTC Desire Z or the T-Mobile G2 (also made by HTC). But, this one is slightly different.

It is listed as the HTC ADR6325 which is all is known about the device at the moment. Other details indicate it runs Android 2.2, has a five megapixel camera and a micro SD card slot. The QWERTY keyboard four rows of keys with the top QWERTY row sharing with the number keys. [Read more…]

Sony Ericsson has announced the Sony LiveView. The LiveView has been designed for smartphones running the Android 2.x operating system.

The device its self has a 1.3 inch screen and connects to a smartphone via bluetooth and allows users to remote control their phone from a device that can be worn on your wrist.

To get it working, you require an application to be running on your smartphone. Once paired up, information can be sent to and from the LiveView. [Read more…]

Amazon will soon be launching its own Android app store. The information comes from TechCrunch who managed to find out about a few bits about the new service.

Amazon will follow the likes of Verizon in to this field. Verizon [VZ] is also making its own app store which will start making a bit of competition between them all.

The details show that there will be a standard 70/30 split although an odd 20/80 split is also mentioned which doesn’t make too much sense at the moment. [Read more…]