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The Motorola DROID 2 is available as of today. However, if you want the R2-D2 model, you’ll need to wait a little longer before you can purchase one. We heard yesterday that the Star Wars specific model wasn’t shipping till September.

The image above (and larger below) shows what many believe is to be the Motorola DROID 2 R2-D2 limited edition.

The new limited edition model is expected to be unveiled today at the Celebration V show. We’ll keep an eye out to see if that is the case and get some pictures uploaded. [Read more…]

When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4 a few months back, a jenga style game was demoed that showed us all what the gyro was good for. This game is called Gyroblox and is available to download from the iTunes store.

The game is described as follows…

Gyroblox 4 is a demonstration of the gyroscope based on physics.
Gyroscope + accelerometer provide 6-axis motion sensing to camera.
Retina display 960-by-640 resolution is supported.

[Required Device Capabilities]
Gyroscope, Accelerometer, OpenGL ES 1.1

[Read more…]

With the release of iOS 4.0.2 last night, it raises the questions of jailbreaking and unlocking the new version. From what we understand, iOS 4.0.2 uses the same baseband as 4.0.1 and can therefore be unlocked. However, you need to be able to jailbreak your iPhone to apply the unlock which is where the problem is now since Apple [AAPL] closed the security hole that jailbreakme.com used to jailbreak the phone.

The current iPhone 4 jailbreak was broken with the iOS 4.0.2 update which means that if you want a jailbroken iPhone 4, you’ll need to leave it on 4.0.1 or on previous versions. The same goes for the iPhone 3GS.

However, if you updated your iPhone 3G to iOS 4.0.2 then you are still in luck as you can still use Redsn0w to jailbreak your iOS 4.0.2 iPhone 3G. [Read more…]

Sprint [S] is launching the Samsung Epic 4G on August 31 with a price tag of $250 after a $100 rebate.

The new smartphone is Sprint’s second 4G Android device to be launched. Technical spec wise, it has a 4 inch Super AMOLED screen that is of the capacitive touch variety. It has Android 2.1 (we expect it will be updated to Android 2.2 shortly after launch) and it runs the 1GHz Samsung Cortex A8 processor.

The camera on the Epic 4G is 5 megapixels and is capable of capturing video at 720p HD. An LED flash is also included. [Read more…]

The Motorola Droid 2 is launching tomorrow, but we see in the picture here that one looks to already be available although it isn’t clear if this particular DROID 2 has left the store it was pictured in. We suspect it hasn’t been given to a customer just yet because we see a second DROID 2 box in the corner indicating a batch arrived ready for launch tomorrow.

Either way, it’s real and ready for launch tomorrow along with a new QWERTY keyboard and sporting Android 2.2 Froyo. [Read more…]

Engadget is reporting today that Sony Ericsson could be building a PSP Go style device that will run Android 3.0 and work as a smartphone.

The information comes from a trusted source and indicates that Sony Ericsson is working on a way to redefine gaming using the Android 3.0 platform.

Sony Ericsson “…is at work on a project to redefine gaming on Google’s mobile platform. We now know (via a trusted source) that the company is actively and heavily developing a brand new gaming platform, ecosystem, and device (possibly alongside Google) which are already in the late stages of planning. And we’ve got the goods on it.” [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] this evening has pushed out a small iOS update numbered iOS 4.0.2. The update was made available to to secure the security hold that PDF files create…

Fixes security vulnerability associated with viewing malicious PDF files.

The iOS 4.0.2 update is available for the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, iPod touch 2nd Gen and iPod touch 3rd gen (late 2009 models).

Of course, if you want to use the iPhone 4 jailbreak then you need to stick with iOS 4.0.1 as the jailbreakme.com website uses the PDF vulnerability to inject the necessary code in to the iPhone. [Read more…]

Sprint [S] is rolling out webOS 1.4.5 for Palm Pre and Pixi users. The new version brings out a number of new features including PDK apps on both the Pre and Pixi.

The enhancements and fixes are listed below…

* This update includes fixes for:
* Web podcasts download correctly
* Correct entry of text on Web
* Sprint branded default email signature corrected
* Power use and battery optimization
* Send video via multimedia messaging from Video application
* Video trim feature now works to send in a message
* SprintTV upgrade to V 3.5.4 and enhanced parental controls

[Read more…]

Sprint [S] is rolling out an official fix to HTC EVO 4G owners who managed to get hold of the early and unfinished Android 2.2 update that leaked out a few days before the official update a few weeks back.

The fix comes in the shape of an OTA package that fixes any HTC EVO 4G that downloaded the .3 update. The .3 update is replaced with a .6 update when officially done and will prevent any further problems with the phone that were .3 related.

The update package is relatively small and Sprint point out that the process to download and install is just a few minutes. [Read more…]