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Opera is launching the Opera Mobile Browser for Android smartphones within the next month. The new browser will launch with pinch to zoom on Android with more features being added over time, such as hardware acceleration.

Pinch to zoom, if you are not familiar with it, allows users to zoom in to a webpage at incremental levels while pinching or pulling their fingers apart on the screen. This allows users to quickly zoom in to an appropriate level rather than a pre-programed level to read text more easily. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] has released the iOS 4.2 Beta 3 download to developers signifying the release date is getting closer for iPad owners.

The Beta 3 download is available now for developers and can be grabbed from the developers site by logging in with your username and password.

The Beta 3 of iOS 4.2 brings a few new features such as SMS ringtones (for iPhone users) although the AirPlay button that was found in previous betas of 4.2 has now been removed. [Read more…]

With a little leak from AT&T’s website and just a few lines of detail regarding the HTC 7 Surround phone, courtesy of Engadget, we’ve listed a few of the important details you’ll want to know about HTC’s latest entry. [Read more…]

Last time we heard, Geohot had left the iOS jailbreak scene. We now see that he is back and has released Limera1n. Limera1n allows you to jailbreak iOS 4.1 on several devices which includes the iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G all using 4.0-4.1.

The new iOS 4.1 jailbreak uses a different exploit to what the GreenPois0n jailbreak does and because of this, the team behind GreenPois0n (that uses SHAtter), have decided to delay the launch so that Apple [AAPL] doesn’t have the opportunity to patch two exploits. [Read more…]

The iOS 4.1 jailbreak release date could be as early as this weekend.

On Twitter a tweet was sent out that said the ETA was 10/10/10 at 10:10:10am.

Things have progressed to the point where we don’t expect anymore roadblocks. ETA for greenpois0n is 10/10/10 at 10:10:10AM

This particular iOS 4.1 jailbreak is designed to work with the latest hardware which means it will work on the iPad, iPhone 4 and the 4th generation iPod touch. [Read more…]

For those over in Japan, you are about to get a new Android smartphone with the highest resolution of any Android device.

The new device will have an iPhone 4 res style screen that is capable of displaying 960 x 640 pixels. The screen uses IPS type displays that widens the viewing angle to 178 degrees.

Other features of the device include a 9.6 megapixel camera which is also an impressive detail in its self. [Read more…]

Last week, details emerged about the 05.14.02 unlock for the iPhone 3GS not being worked on.

It seems now though that a potential unlock can be made for this baseband after some work was done over the weekend by a hacker named Clayton. The exploit found was used to crash the iPhone 3GS and it is expected now that an unlock could emerge from this work. [Read more…]