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New BlackBerry Touch and Bold shown off in promo videos

The leaks just keep on coming for the next batch of BlackBerry Smartphones we can expect to see hopefully this summer. This new collection of leaks comes once again from N4BB and we have promo videos for both the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Touch 9860.

With BlackBerry World just around the corner in early May it is looking more and more likely that these two new devices along with the Torch 2 will be announced.

I’m pretty excited about all three. If the rumored specs are correct it looks like RIM are catching up with the rest of the industry and using 1.2 GHz processors. That will make one nippy BlackBerry.

You can see both the video promos below.

Twitter for BlackBerry officially updated

If you are a BlackBerry user and like to use Twitter, you may want to check out Twitter for BlackBerry if you have not done so before as it now has some rather cool new features.

First up, and in my opinion most important, is the introduction of push mentions and messages. There is nothing more frustrating than waiting for a Twitter app to refresh, so now as soon as someone mentions you the message will be pushed to your BlackBerry. I have been using this feature for some time as a beta zone member and if you use Twitter a lot once you have ‘push’ you can never go back. Try it. It rocks!

Tweet location is another new feature. Once set up within the options of the app you will notice a compass logo sitting next to the camera icon. Here you can choose to add your location to tweets. Viewing someone else’s location – if they have enabled this feature – is really easy too! All you need to do is select the location icon that appears in the bottom right corner of their tweet and a map view will open, allowing you to see where they were when they submitted that Tweet.

The next time you Retweet something, it will appear in your Home timeline as ‘Retweeted by You’, to quickly alert you that your Retweet was sent successfully.

Nokia announces update for a range of Symbian devices

Even though Nokia are adopting Windows Phone 7 in the future they are still clearly working to make Symbian a better platform. Nokia have announced an update , named Anna, that will roll out over the coming months for the N8, E7, C7 and C6-01. The forthcoming X7 and E6 will ship with the new version of the OS pre loaded.

The new stuff includes the following:

• New, fresh icons
• Great usability enhancements improving text input
• Easier and faster web browser with improved UI
• Refreshed Ovi maps including simpler and quicker search
• Enterprise grade security and messaging enhancements
• First of a series of upcoming updates

You can see a video of these below.

HTC Flyer up for pre order

Over at the Carphone Warehouse the HTC Flyer is currently showing as available for pre order. Now although the site shows it as being in stock the word on the street is that the device will not be shipping until next month so don’t get too excited just yet.

Priced at £599.99 for the Wi-Fi version it doesn’t come cheap and in fact one would argue that it is massively over priced at nearly six hundred whole English pounds.

If you missed our demo video with the Flyer you can check it out here. 

Head on over to Carphone Warehouse if you want to get your order in now.

For those of you that want a reminder what the HTC Flyer has to offer you can see more details below:

Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave launches exclusively on the Xperia PLAY

On April 1st, Trendy Entertainment and Sony Ericsson released Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave, the player versus player, multiplayer sequel to the hit, number one Android game Dungeon Defenders: First Wave! Originally planned only for consoles, now it’s playable for the first time as it was originally meant to be played-with controls on Sony Ericsson’s new Xperia PLAY smartphone. If you love online games, then you will surely love LevelUp casino too.

Xperia PLAY, which launches this month around the world, is the must-have smart phone on the fully-featured Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) platform. It is also the world’s first PlayStation certified smartphone, offering unrivalled gaming capability with dedicated gaming controls and ultra-fast graphics based on the optimized Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Adreno GPU.