Orange have announced the launch of their new Application Shop which is available today. The Orange App Shop gives users one click access to thousands of handy applications. Although the application shop has been available for a while, they are now putting the App Shop on mobile phones rather than accessing through the web browser.
The App Shop is being made available on over one million phones in both the UK and France with millions more customers gaining access next year in 2010.
The program will be put on the home screen of phones and as Orange is a network rather than an OS, the App Shop will be multi-platform allowing users of many phones and OS’s to connect up and download applications they want. [Read more…]
The Acer Liquid A1 has gone on sale in the UK at various online stores. Originally the A1 was reported as having a 1GHz Snapdrahon processor although looking at the specs now it seems Acer have clocked it at 768MHz to probably save on battery life.
If you feel your toddler needs a voice on the Twitter micro blogging service then this gadget should be on their Christmas list (not like we think there is any point to it, but we thought we’d mention it anyway). The gadget is called Twoddler and uses sensors to capture a toddlers activity on a twoddler board that is internet connected. Each sensor has pre-defined text that is transmitted to twitter as of when needed.
FineDigital have launched the Finedrive Style 3D sat nav system that takes it’s mapping technology from Atlan 3D. From what we see on the screen here, the navigation system is quite detailed in the 3D side of things and represents building and details more finely than other GPS units.
Dell have announced a new laptop in it’s Vostro range called the Dell V13. From what we see the laptop takes a few design elements from the new Dell Adamo we mentioned a few months back. The Dell V13 is thin at just 0.65 inches and when launched will cost $450.
The JooJoo was revealed yesterday amidst a few issues between 
We spoke about the 
Planex have launched a new portable wireless router that allows a 3G USB dongle to be connected up to it allowing several people to share the same connection.
Over on XDA developers there’s an interesting thread that reveals upcoming phones for the 1st half of next year. Included in the set of phones are five Android based phones along with three devices running Windows Phone. Pocketnow wonder why only 3 windows phone’s were only mentioned and suggest it could be related to a second half 2010 release of Windows Mobile 7.
A number of Gadget blogs managed to get their hands on a Barnes & Noble Nook for review this weekend. On Saturday we mentioned that 
Apple have updated the high-end Mac Pro computer with a bigger and better processor. The new processor is a 3.33GHz quad-core Intel Xeon that ads another $1,200 to the price of the Mac.
