Motorola DROID 2 unleashed, hits the Verizon Wireless stores on August 12

After DROID comes DROID 2. Logical, huh? Motorola’s newest Android-powered smartphone, the DROID 2, has already made several public appearances without its parents’ permission so it was high time that the company finally announced it officially.

Motorola Droid Froyo update starts making its way OTA

Rejoice Droid users! Even though Motorola already released its successor, the Americans haven’t forgotten about the original Droid. It’s getting a fresh new software update as we speak, bringing all the goodness of Froyo 2.2 to the QWERTY-packing slider.

Samsung Epic 4G for Sprint coming August 31, brings QWERTY and WiMAX along

The Samsung Epic 4G will be available at the end of the month – it’s the first Galaxy S phone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard and WiMAX connectivity. Plus it packs all the goodies characteristic for Galaxy S, 4” SuperAMOLED and all…

Dell Streak launches on AT&T this Friday, a day early for those who pre-ordered

The big phone/small tablet Dell Streak finally has a launch date for AT&T. It’s been on pre-order since late July and if you’ve signed up for that you’d be able to snatch it a day early…

The pricing of the Dell Streak has been known for a while – 550 US dollars contract-free or $300 if you put pen to paper on an AT&T contract. If you redeem your pre-sale coupon you can snatch a Plantronics Bluetooth headset for just 99 cents (while supplies last).

And you’ll need one too, if you’re going to make use of the phone functionality of the Dell Streakas its screen measures a hefty 5 inches. The OS is Android 1.6 for now but Dell are hard at work to update it to 2.1 Eclair which should also bring 720p video recording to the 5MP camera.

The Dell Streak will be available from AT&T starting August 13 (that’s this Friday) or tomorrow if you signed up for the pre-order.

Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 edition and X-Wing GPS app redefine awesome

Finally! Here comes something to make up for the presence of Jar Jar Binks in the first three episodes of Star Wars. We’ve got the first shot of the R2-D2 limited edition of the Motorola Droid 2 and an incredibly cool app to go with it.

You can almost get the feeling that you are driving a rebel alliance fighter if you get the X-Wing GPS app to run on that handset. And no it won’t replace you dedicated SatNav app but it doesn’t even try to in the first place. All it does is blow your mind with cool. 

HTC will announce something on September 15 in London, is it the Desire Z or Desire HD?

HTC are prepping a surprise for September 15 in London. It’s probably an announcement for new phone(s), but which one(s) is it?

StarCraft II rushes console games, becomes best selling game in July

People have waited for years for the StarCraft II to come up and now that it’s finally out – it is flying off the shelves. In July, it outsold every console game even if you combine the numbers from across the different platforms…

Asus is working on 4 EEE tablets, with a variety of screen sizes and OSes

Asus is readying a whole lot of tablets for launch at the end of this year and the beginning of the next. They’ll cover anything from 8 to 12 inches and run Windows 7, Windows Embedded Compact 7, Android and Linux…

Windows Phone 7 devices by end of September?

We’ve been hearing a lot about Windows Phone 7, but one thing that hasn’t been confirmed is when the devices will actually be available for purchase.

While Microsoft isn’t stating official ship dates, it seems that LG is now on record saying that it will ship its first Windows Phone 7 device by end of September. LG is also stating that it’s going to have more Windows Phone 7 smartphones available before the end of the year.

I have to say that I’m surprised to see that LG is the first mover on Windows Phone 7. With the developer handsets coming from Samsung, and HTC

Fishlabs Hints Toward Nokia Tablet

German developer Fishlabs has fuelled rumors about Nokia working on an iPad competitor. The developer mentioned development for the device on their weblog.

Palm Extends $1 Million Developer Competition

In Palm’s Hot Apps Rewards, the company extended the deadline to June 30th. With a special leaderboard, developers are also updated on their performance in the competition.

Ovi Stats Update

Currently, Ovi is generating over 1.6 million downloads a day and the store is backed by developers from 80 countries. Nokia’s Ovi Store supports over 100 devices of which over 60 are Symbian based.

Apple to Ban Flurry and Distimo?

It seems Apple is kicking more third party service providers out the App Store with the release of iPhone OS 4.0. In the recent TOS change, developers are no longer allowed to device data.

Vodafone Commits to the iPad

Vodafone has announced it will be launching the iPad 3G in five countries. It is not clear if the deal is exclusive, but at least it shows there is love between Apple and Vodafone as well.

iPad Faces International Delays

Due to the massive success of the iPad in the US, Apple has decided to delay the international launch of the device even more. The delay should not be more than a month which means it will hit the shelves end of May.

Huawei Also Eyeballing Palm

Next to HTC, Reuters expects Huawei to already be talking with Palm about a takeover. Huawei is a competitor of HTC that is known for many operator branded phones in Europe and the US.

Google Hires Mark DeLoura for Gaming Push

Google has announced the appointment of Mark DeLoura as Developer Advocate for video games. With this appointment, Google further commits to the (mobile) gaming industry.

Apple to Remove Rating Pop-Ups

Since Apple started to allow apps on the iPhone, the company has been asking users to rate them upon deletion. This functionality will however be removed in iPhone OS 4.0.

Unity CEO Promises ‘Uninterrupted Service’

Unity 3D is one of the pre-compilers likely to be banned from the App Store due to the new TOS Apple introduced with the iPhone OS 4.0 beta version. Unity believes there will be a solution.

First iPhone Reaches ‘End of Life’

During the introduction of iPhone OS 4.0, Steve Jobs already announced that 4.0 would not be fully backward compatible. As so, the 3G models would not receive multitasking support.

Digital Chocolate Generated 4 Mln Downloads on Ovi

Digital Chocolate is celebrating four million downloads on Nokia’s Ovi store. It is unclear at the moment how many of them have been paid downloads since Nokia is running promotions on the games.

HTC Eyeballing Palm

According to a story from Bloomberg, HTC is playing around with the ideas of releasing their own mobile operating system or just to acquire Palm. HTC is currently ruling the Android and Windows Mobile markets.

Ideaworks3D Appoints New CEO

Ideaworks3D has announced the appointment of Niall Murphey as their new CEO. Alex Caccia will be stepping down from his position, but remains on the board as the president of the company.

2 million iPhone sold in France

It was not until tomorrow but it would have sold more than 2 million iPhones in France this year. Apple's iPhone has become the largest seller of smartphones in France with 50% market share in this segment. It is the fourth largest manufacturer of mobile with 8.5% of sales (a total of 23 million mobile units sold) and holds 20% market share in value.

Acer Launches Ferrari Edition of Liquid

Acer wanted to make a little enhancement to its flagship model: theAcer Liquid. The smartphone will sport a red hull color of the Prancing Horse brand, this Ormis aesthetic detail there is no change in the pattern that has a reminder: 
- A Qualcomm 8250 processor clocked at 768 MHz 
- 512MB Storage / 256 MB RAM 
- A 5 MPixel camera with autofocus 
- LCD Screen 3.5 "WVGA type in 16.7 million colors 
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g