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We’ve been told officially now that the HTC HD2 is not going to be getting a Windows Phone 7 Series upgrade due to the HD2 not meeting the technical chassis requirements, ie, it doesn’t have the three hardware buttons on the front face and potentially doesn’t meet other hardware and graphical requirements. Either way, it didn’t stop the HTC HD2 on T-Mobile last week from selling lots of units.

Anyway, we are now hearing that someone has managed to port a real working ROM of an early Windows Phone 7 Series build on to a HD2 over in Russia.

As well as getting the ROM working on the HD2 handset, we hear that most of the features work which includes Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and all other hardware functions which is good news. The downside is that the UI is quite choppy and laggy at the moment although we should note that this is common when porting a ROM from one device to another, or installing a ROM any any device that wasn’t really designed to be used on the hardware. Give them another month and they should be able to iron out that choppiness quite a bit. [Read more…]

Motorola [MOT] and Verizon [VZ] have just announced that the Motorola DEVOUR is available to purchase online from the Verizon store. It is also available in store to buy costing $149.99 which is the price after the usual $100 mail in rebate as well as signing a 24 month contract with the wireless company.

The Motorola DEVOUR is an Android based phone that runs on a 3G network and happens to be the second Google [GOOG] Android device to hit Verizon.

The technical specs of the phone show that it has a 3.1 inch screen that’s capacitive touch. For storage it has an 8GB microSD card included. A full QWERTY keyboard slides out of the left side of the device allowing it to be used in landscape mode. The MOTOBLUR service is also included that aims to bring social media content to the handset in one location rather than on different applications. [Read more…]

Virgin in the UK have announced that they are releasing four new Android smartphones.

The four new devices include the LG InTouch Max, Samsung Galaxy Portal, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 and the HTC Desire. Although four are being announced by Virgin, it is expected that more will follow this year.

The first phone listed is the LG InTouch Max that is based around social networking for those users who enjoy connecting with people on Facebook, Twitter and other various networks. The phone it’s self will be free when purchased on a £22/month contract. With this contract buyers will get 250 minutes of talk time along with an unlimited amount of text messages and unlimited mobile internet access. [Read more…]

Sketch-a-Search is an application built by Yahoo! that allows you to search for restaurants nearby by drawing a line on a map around the area you want to search in.

By using your GPS or cell tower co-ordinates the application searches within the area you draw around. The restaurants once listed can then be filtered by distance, type of restaurant as in romantic/family/casual/formal and also by it’s 1 – 5 star rating in terms of how much of a recommendation the restaurant is.

Switched managed to do a brief hands on of the application and although it worked relatively well, it did feel a little laggy in points where drawing was concerned. Also the filtering wasn’t up to scratch due to the lack of data in certain areas. [Read more…]

The Samsung Galaxy i9000 has been announced. The new smartphone when launched will run the Android 2.1 operating system, feature Samsung’s own Super AMOLED screen in a WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 pixels that measures 4 inches. The Samsung Galaxy will also run a 1GHz processor to keep things running smoothly.

The new Galaxy is what Samsung are aiming to be their flagship smartphone to tackle the likes of the Google [GOOG] Nexus One and the Motorola DROID in terms of features and an almost matching operating system (still waiting for that DROID 2.1 update).

Feature include assisted GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 as well as wireless connectivity that sees the phone connecting to wireless 802.11b/g and n networks. Storage capacity can be increased by utilising the built in microSD card slot. Standard storage is optional at 8GB or 16GB with the microSD card slot allowing a further 32GB of data to be stored which provides quite a bit of space for music, photos and video to be stored. [Read more…]

StyleTap iPhone has finally been released. The StyleTap application is designed for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and allows you to run the Palm OS interface on your Apple [AAPL] device.

Before you go ahead and purchase/install it you need to note a few things. First off, it requires you to jailbreak your device (if you haven’t already) and needs virmware v3.x or above to run. Also note that if you are running iPhone OS 3.1.3 then you can’t currently jailbreak your device. Also if you decide to install an official update you’ll also loose the jailbreak and loose access to the software. With that in mind lets take a look at what it does…

SkyleTap Platform allows you to run 30,000 applications that were written for Palm OS on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Applications that were written for the Palm OS 5.2 platform or earlier are compatible with StyleTap and this includes programs that use native ARM code (PNOs or ARMlets). [Read more…]

As well as T-Mobile getting ready to launch the HTC Desire on their network in the UK this week, they also have uploaded pricing for the Sony Ericsson X10 also giving the phone away for free for those who sign up for a 24 month contract paying £35/month. For the £35/month you get 900 minutes of calls and 500 text messages as well as the “unlimited” 1GB data plan.

The cheapest monthly cost you can get the phone for is just £10/month although at that price you’ll need to pay £226 for the handset and you’ll also be locked in for 24 months as well. [Read more…]

Some patents have been found that show Apple are working on a new mobile social media networking application for the iPhone. The new software is known as iGroups and allows mobile phone users to easily exchange information more easily. The patent shows that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have also taken privacy in to consideration.

From what we learn in the patent it appears that both Wi-fi and Bluetooth are used to work out proximity providing a virtual GPS unit. That particular method of collecting your location is if you do not have a GPS enabled device. By using a WiFi connection or Bluetooth with another device it can still provide an approximate location that lets you network with others. [Read more…]

The minimum specs have been revealed for Windows Phone 7 Series devices including the memory, processor and graphical requirements that all hardware running the operating system will have to adhere to.

The list starts off with the screen which needs to be multi-touch supporting at least four contact points. Sensors that have to be included are A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass, Light and Proximity. The camera on the back of the device has to be capable of at least 5 megapixels and can include higher resolution sensors.

Memory wise the device needs to have just 256MB including an 8GB flash or more. The GPU needs to be capable of DirectX9 acceleration. [Read more…]

Vodafone have listed the HTC Desire on their online store and given it a tentative shipping date of April. Vodafone are the 3rd network in the UK who are going to be shipping the HTC Desire with the other two being T-Mobile and Orange at the moment.

The HTC Desire runs the Google Android OS, has a 5 megapixel camera and a large 3.7 inch touchscreen. For connectivity it has WiFi, HSDPA and 3G as well as Bluetooth. [Read more…]

The Mini iPhone Microphone is designed to let you use your iPhone to record voice memos. Out of all the things the iPhone can do such as utilise apps, make calls, send messages, record video, take pictures, surf the web, act as a GPS navigator… etc… etc…, one thing it cannot do is record voice memos.

The mini iPhone microphone is a device (costing $12.99) that allows it to do just that. To get it working you simply attach the small microphone pictured above in to your 3.5mm headphone jack, move it in the direction you want to record and speak away. [Read more…]