iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPod nano Rumours

iLounge has posted some rumours that reveal a few new products from Apple [AAPL] are being worked on for an end of 2010 or early 2011 launch.

The rumours come from a source who successfully “predicted” the iPad as well as a couple of iPod nano models.

The first of the rumours follows along with what we have heard before in that different iPad models will be launching. The new model mentioned is an iPad mini that has a 7 inch screen. The iPad mini is supposed to be a finished product that will be announced late this year or early next year and apparently has been in development for a few years. [Read more…]

Rightmove Property Search Launches Draw-a-Search

Rightmove is a property search website in the UK that has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of properties listed across the UK. The normal way to search on Rightmove is to enter a postcode or town name and hit search. You can then set limits such as search within 3 miles of the selected postcode.

The company recently launched a new service called draw-a-search that lets you do just that… draw a search on a map to define where you want to look for a house.

The service launched a couple of weeks ago and already half a million people have drawn searches on the UK map to hunt for property. [Read more…]

Google Announce 200K Android Devices Ship Daily

Eric Schmidt of Google [GOOG] has announced that 200,000 Google Android smartphones are being sold each day. Back in April that number was 60,000 and just two months ago it was 100,000. 200K represents an impressive growth rate over the last few months and one that Google has to be happy about.

That number is just one drip from a stream of good news for the platform this week, including 866 percent year-over-year growth and the top spot in NPD’s sales rankings.

Although we are sure that Google is happy with the speed of Android devices shifting off the shelves, we suspect that they wont sit back and enjoy it for more than a minute or two as they will be looking to again double that in the near future. [Read more…]

Amazon UK Kindle Store Open Today

The Amazon Kindle in the UK is now taking pre-orders. With that in mind, we now see that Amazon has opened up the UK Kindle Store allowing Kindle owners to buy books from the UK based website rather than the US site.

The new UK Amazon Kindle store already has more than 400,000 books to download including most of the sort after books. Including New Releases and Bestsellers, from UK authors including Terry Pratchett, Ian Rankin, Martina Cole, Sophie Kinsella and Ken Follett.

The UK Kindle Store can be accessed now and books can be downloaded to your current Kindle, or to any device you have that runs the Kindle software such as the iPad, iPhone and Android based devices. [Read more…]

MobileMe iDisk Streaming Hints that iTunes Cloud is Getting Closer

Last month, Apple [AAPL] updated the MobileMe iDisk app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new update sneakily brings in the ability to stream music from your iDisk to your iOS based device. Any music that you upload to iDisk can now be accessed and run in the background on devices that run iOS 4.

This appears to go against what record labels are demanding in that when music is streamed, you need to pay a license fee.

Apple recently pushed a new version of their iDisk software. iDisk is Apple’s online storage service similar to Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. Quietly mentioned in the release note of version 1.2 is the ability to play music files from remote storage in the background. I say “quietly” because this capability is not among the bullet list of features. Only if you click the “More” button do you see this listed:

* Play audio from your iDisk while using another app

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Facebook for Android 1.3 Update Now Ready

The Facebook app on Android devices hasn’t been that good. It just didn’t work as smoothly as some expected and lacked a few features. Thankfully an update has now arrived in the form of 1.3. The new update has native event viewing and video viewing and has also improved the layout.

A working notification drawer has been added to the app and it also features the ability to view photos within the app. Previously a lot of functions redirected users to the mobile version of the site which didn’t really work as well as people wanted.

The application it’s self is free to download from the Android market although right now it appears that it works on Android 2.0 and above leaving 1.6 users and below in the dark. [Read more…]

Google Wave to be Killed Off

Google [GOOG] launched Google Wave about a year ago in June 2009. A long beta test was done with the service which then finally opened up for general use. Since it fully opened the take up has not been the best and the service really hasn’t taken off like Google would have hoped for.

Because of this, Google is now killing off the Google Wave service, but will continue to support it for the remainder of this year.

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily ‘liberate their content from Wave.

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Motorola Droid 2 Android 2.2 Confirmed by Flyer

Another document has leaked that shows the upcoming Motorola Droid 2 along with five details of what is included in the new smartphone rumoured to launch next week.

The first detail on the list confirms that Android 2.2 will be installed on the Droid 2 at launch. In that announcement we also see that up to 8 apps can multitask which is two above what the original Droid can handle.

The 1GHz processor and Android 2.2 combination is capable of loading webpages 40% faster than the original Droid and thanks to the latest OS, the Droid 2 can be used as a portable Wireless Hotspot. [Read more…]

iPhone 4 PDF Flaw has a Fix Ready says Apple

Apple [AAPL] has already managed to patch the security hole found in the iPhone 4 PDF function. This particular security hole allows software such as Jailbreakme to work that in turn, allows you to run the iPhone 4 jailbreak although there is also the possibility that malicious code could also be injected in to iOS with the security hole in place.

Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 soon which will include a security fix within the PDF feature. In turn, this will also prevent the jailbreak from working for those who update to iOS 4.1.

Apple said in a statement… “We’re aware of this reported issue, we have already developed a fix and it will be available to customers in an upcoming software update.” [Read more…]

Clear iSpot 4G Hotspot for iPad and iPhone

The Clear iSpot is a mobile 4G hotspot designed to allow smartphones and tablets to connect to the internet at 4G speeds.

The device is designed for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and when those devices connect over a WiFi connection, they are then capable of accessing the internet at 4G speeds rather than the 3G speeds that currently can restrict them.

The iSpot is capable of allowing up to eight wireless devices to connect up to it and has been optimised for Apple [AAPL] products. We are not sure what that exactly means, but we assume any WiFi device with a fast enough connection will be able to get the same benefits from it. [Read more…]

Vonage Mobile Facebook App Lets you Call Friends on Facebook

Vonage has launched a new iOS and Android OS based app that integrates with Facebook allowing calls to be made between friends who use the service.

When launching the app you need to log in to your Facebook account within the app and once done, you get a list of friends who are also using the Vonage app. If they are active in the system you can place a VoIP call to them by just tapping on their name. [Read more…]

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Heading to Orange UK

Orange has confirmed that it will also be selling the newly announced BlackBerry Torch 9800. Confirmation of release dates and prices have been provided yet, but we suspect it will be on or shortly after August 12.

So far both Vodafone and Orange have confirmed they will be offering the BlackBerry Torch on their networks.

The message came from a Tweet linked from the Orange news page that says…

Good news: The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 with BlackBerry 6 will be coming soon to Orange UK. We will keep you posted with details…

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