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Engadget has received some photos of what seems to be the unannounced and unreleased Dell Thunder. It seems to have Android 2.1 and a 4.1″ capacitive touch screen at 800×480, an 8 MP camera, 720p video recording and a 1400 mAh battery. However, no word on internal storage or processor speed but expect a 1GHz Snapdragon.
Well it seems Nokia is going down the cryptic route, as they have been sending out messages to many bloggers around the world, including Matt Davis from tracyandmatt.co.uk. His message was in the personal messages section of the London Evening Standard. It simply said, “Hi Matt Davis, Big things come in small packages. The times is coming when all will be revealed.”
The other bloggers who also received the cryptic messages are saying that they got a small package from Nokia, but are told to be quiet about what is inside. Many people are thinking that it has something to do with the new Nokia N8. But, I guess it is only a matter of time before we find out.
Google is going to be holding an event tomorrow in their San Francisco offices at 12PM PST (9PM British Time), where they are going to be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features”. The last time they held an event similar to this, they unveiled Google Navigation, which was a great addition to Android. So hopefully they will announce something on par with Google Nav.
The event could be the unveiling of the Google music service which we’ve been expecting since Google I/O. And if this is indeed what is being announced tomorrow, it will be the first step for Google to take a bite out of Apple’s music business, (No pun intended!) and could convert iPhone users locked in the iTunes universe to Android. However, I do not think that it will be the launch of Android 3.0. Mainly because it is to soon after 2.2 was announced at Google I/O.
There are some rumours floating around of them releasing the Nexus Two with Gingerbread 3.0, but again, this is probably not going to happen as we would of seen some sort of leak by now.
The illusive white iPhone 4 has yet to be released because of supposed manufacturing problems. There are many rumours of why, but they range from the opacity of the white paint on the glass, to light leaking from the device. Apple has already delayed the white iPhone 4 twice, most recently they said that it will be “later this year.” But now Orange is emailing customers suggesting that the white iPhone will not be here until the end of the year.
We wanted to let you know that there won’t be any white iPhone 4’s in the UK until the end of the year.
If you’re happy to wait another few months we’ll let you know as soon as they’re back in stock. want an iPhone 4 now?
Alternatively, if you want it now, click here or visit your local Orange shop to get the iPhone 4 Black 16GB or 32GB today. Best wishes
Orange
So if you are still waiting for an white iPhone 4, you may be waiting a very long time. And it might just be worth it to get the black one and imagine it being white.
Apple has just released the latest version of the iOS for the iPhone and the iPad. The 4.0.2 and 3.2.2 update fixes the PDF exploit that enables the jailbreakme.com jailbreak.
This week we’re joined by our old friend and special guest Chris Oldroyd. Tracy steps in with some special mobile deals and Andy has a mishap in his trousers.
mp; James with guest appearances by Chris and Tracy
Show Notes
Well it seems like Android is becoming a PC, as security firm Kaspersky detected a trojan going by the name of “Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a”. This trojan is downloaded as an Android app and according to Kaspersky it is the first known Android targeted trojan.
The trojan poses as a media player app but when the app is installed, it starts sending SMS’s to premium rate numbers without telling the user. As the creators of the trojan usually set up the numbers, they benefit from this scam. These types of trojans have been on mobile phones for years, but as far as I am aware, this is the first time it has been put on an Android device.
Kaspersky Lab is supposedly working on Android-specific antivirus software and plans to release it early next year. Even though there are antivirus apps already available in the Android Market, it was supposed to be unnecessary. But I guess it is only a matter of time before we see the 1990s war between the Mac and PC start all over again.
The Droid is arguably the phone that put Android on the map, and the sequel to the best-selling Android phone is here, as the Droid 2. The Droid 2 is going to come shipped with Android 2.2, the first device to do so. Aside from Froyo, the Droid 2 has a 3.7″ WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 8GB of internal storage, (with support of up to 32Gb on a MicroSD card) a 1GHz TI OMAP processor and 512MB of RAM. It also comes pre-installed with Swype, one of the best ways for text-imput on Android Devices.
The Droid 2 is going to be available on presale in the US tomorrow August 11th for $199.99, with a R2-D2 Star Wars special edition coming next month. Even though the Droid 2 is only going to be available in the US, there hopefully should be a european version coming soon, as the Motorola Milestone got released as the european version of the Droid.
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With Windows Phone 7 being released in the next couple of months, there has to be a phone leaked with WP7 running on it. And that is exactly what we see here. 247windowsphone.com has just released a video of what seems to be HTC’s flagship phone for WP7, called the HTC Schubert. (Yeah I know, weird name.) See the video here. There are no released specs yet, but there are some rumoured that they will be similar to a Nexus One. i.e. a 1GHz processor, 512Mb of RAM ect.
The iPhone Dev Team have found yet another way to piss of Mr. Jobs, this time Flash on the iPhone. Comex, the developer of the latest jailbreak, has ported the Frash tool over from the iPad, which means you now can view flash content on your iDevice. As you could expect you do need to jailbreak your iPhone to do this, then you need to download the .deb, put it to a folder deep inside your phone via SSH, and then restart and you should have flash on your iPhone. Video tutorial here.
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