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Evan Williams of Twitter announced at the Chirp conference that the microblogging network will be launching an Android app.

Right now it isn’t clear who will create the app, as in will it be built in house or will they acquire a company and work on their app, or if they will even higher 3rd party developers. Either way, the official Twitter Android app will be coming sometime soon.

Saturday just gone, Twitter acquired a company called Tweetie who created a very good twitter application on the iPhone. Now that this has been purchased the application is being called Twitter for iPhone and will not be charged for like it currently is. We are unsure of the time line but we suspect the minor changes to price and a name are just going through app store approval which should be complete by the end of the month. [Read more…]

In an interview with Charlie Kindel about Windows Phone 7 he has mentioned that Microsoft [MSFT] will be adding features over time to the operating system. In the past he said that Microsoft have tried cramming all the features in to Windows Mobile. This in my opinion, has caused the OS in the past to not be where it should be. Microsoft are not focusing on doing it well.

The reason for adding features over time is to not rush them in to production models. Rather than adding a function like copy and paste, it will be added at a later date when they get it right. This follows how Apple [AAPL] work in some ways in that they don’t introduce something till it is done the best way possible. [Read more…]

Samsung have unveiled the Samsung AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600 in to the Korean market. The AMOLED Beam is a successor to the Haptic Beam and has uses a Samsung AMOLED screen (as the name suggests) to enhance the quality of the phone and provide richer images.

The Beam part of the phones name also indicates the presence of a pico projector. The built in projector is capable of throwing an image up to 50 inches diagonal on to a nearby surface allowing you to watch video more comfortably or view photos with friends. The projector has a 9 lumen rating for brightness. When compared with the older Haptic Beam the AMOLED Beam is about 1.5 times brighter.

The touchscreen on the device measures 3.3 inches and is in a WVGA resolution. [Read more…]

BGR managed to get their hands on the full spec sheet for the HTC Incredible. Notable features include a 3.7 inch OLED capacitive touchscreen that has a WVGA resolution. Inside is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

The HTC Incredible has 8GB of internal memory and a memory card slot capable of taking up to a 32GB microSD card. For connectivity the Incredible has 802.11b/g/n along with Bluetooth. It functions on a dual band EVDO Rev.A network.

The camera on the Incredible is capable of capturing images at 8 megapixels. [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] unveiled the Microsoft Kin social networking phones. The main features of the Kin phones are their social networking abilities. The whole user interface revolves around sharing with friends and keeping up to date with what’s happening.

We have learned today that Microsoft have enabled a 15 minute delay on status updates, as in they only ping the servers of Facebook, Twitter and other networks in fifteen minute intervals. Reasons cited for this include Microsoft not wanting the phones to always be connect, thus draining battery life and also API issues with the young social networks and their lack of ability to deal with a huge influx of requests.

Engadget mention it could be also related to throttling back bandwidth on Verizons [VZ] network allowing for cheaper data plans. [Read more…]

Nokia [NOK] have announced the launch of three new phones. These are the Noika C3, Nokia C6 and the Nokia E5. Each of the new handsets features a QWERTY keyboard with two of them looking similar to Blackberry devices and the other having a QWERTY keyboard that slides out to the side in landscape mode.

“Our messaging device range is very successful,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s Head of Markets. “Services that provide easy access to the world’s consumer and corporate email and instant messaging are really popular on our QWERTY smartphones such as the Nokia E71 and Nokia E63. People want the best messaging and social networking experience on an affordable device, whether it’s sending a simple text or instant message, an email, or a direct message from their Twitter account. The Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 are made for just that.”

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Tesco Mobile have made changes to their iPhone tariffs that include several new 12 month contracts. Prices are as follows…

For a 12 month contract paying £35/month you can get the iPhone for the following prices…
iPhone 3G 8GB – £100
iPhone 3GS 16GB – £200
iPhone 3GS 32GB – £275

If you want to get a free iPhone 3GS (16GB) you can pay £45/month on a 24 month contract. [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] have confirmed that they will be taking responsibility for providing firmware updates to Windows Phone 7 devices when the new OS launches. Right now, Microsoft leave that to the device manufacturers.

Updates will arrive on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices in a couple of different ways. For small updates, they will be received over the air (OTA) using either a 3G connection on the phone or the WiFi connection if available. Larger updates will be downloadable in the Zune Manager software and when tethering a phone to a computer, you’ll be able to update your device.

In my opinion, MS looking after the updates will be a good thing as all users should be able to get the latest updates around the same time. The current method of device manufacturers pushing out updates could cause some phones on some networks to get delays, for example the same phone on the Orange and T-Mobile networks could see Orange customers with a new firmware and T-Mobile lagging behind. With a central coordinated system it should allow all users of a specific phone to get that update when it is made available. [Read more…]