Gadget Venue

Not much information is known about the picture above, but from what PocketNow say, it looks to be an ASUS smartphone running the Windows Phone 7 operating system.

The picture was captured in Pakistan and shows the three physical button setup below the screen as well as what looks to be a forward facing camera on the top right of the bezel. It appears that the device is either a prototype, or perhaps a developers model due to the serial number printed on the top of the phone just above the screen. [Read more…]

Droid-Life is reporting that Adobe Flash will be available to Motorola Droid users as of August 18 in the Android Market.

For those wanting to grab Adobe Flash 10.1 for the Droid on August 18th, you just need to make sure you are running the latest Android 2.2 Froyo update. [Read more…]

Saudi Arabia has carried through with it’s promise and has forced the three network providers to block access to BlackBerry Messaging. Yahoo! News is reporting today that a number of users over that way have confirmed that they are now unable to access the service that their smartphones were primarily designed to use.

The reasons the BlackBerry messaging service has been shut down was related to “security concerns”. Any of the three carriers now blocking the service would have been given a $1.3M fine. [Read more…]

The Samsung Epic 4G is rumoured to be arriving at Sprint as early as August 11. The information is found in what BGR refer to as the “Sprint playbook” where other information also indicates that stores will be opening up at 8am that day.

The launch of the Samsung Epic 4G jumps in just before the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and the DROID 2.

The phone it’s self is a dual-mode 3G/4G device that can work on either 3G or 4G networks depending on what coverage the user has. [Read more…]

Earlier this week the iPhone 4 jailbreak was released. The new jailbreak for iPhone doesn’t require that you tether your phone to your computer to run it. Instead, you just load up a website in Safari on the iPhone and slide a button that jailbreaks the iPhone from the browser (thanks to a PDF exploit).

To show how easy it is to perform the jailbreak, someone managed to capture a video of himself jailbreaking an iPhone 4 demo model in an Apple [AAPL] store. [Read more…]

CrackBerry managed to get hold of a BlackBerry Torch 9800 early to take a look at. Instead of just looking at what the OS is like and what the smartphone looks like on the outside, they also took it apart to see what actually makes it run on the inside.

The phone is due to be launched on August 12 in the US with a currently unknown UK launch date although we do know it’s headed to Vodafone and Orange at the moment.

The phone it’s self is the first to run BlackBerry OS 6 and has a slide-down QWERTY keyboard for text input. [Read more…]

AT&T [T] could be getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 towards the end of this month. The information comes from details emailed to Engadget that reveal the dealers price on the X10 as well as a few other phones.

The Sony Ericsson X10 is a fairly decent smartphone although it does lack in that it runs Android 1.6 and now 2.1 or above, and the battery lasts just a few hours rather than over a day unless you manually tweak and remove software that automatically runs. [Read more…]

PayPal has updated it’s Android PayPal app to include the popular Bump service. What the PayPal/Bump integration does is allows users to bump phones together to send money to each other.

The feature has been available on the iPhone for a few months now and provided iPhone users a simple way to PayPal money to each other without having to enter email addresses to send the cash to. [Read more…]