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So Sony looks like they might actually be launching this thing soon and judging by the video, they want to steal some attention from the Droid 🙂 Take a look: Excited yet? 🙂 Want to get wholesale price on this phone when it comes out? Look for it in the Community Buying forum in our Forums. Source

So remember the “phone” we announced that runs the full version of Windows XP? Well the ITG xpPhone now has a video up of it’s new custom UI that allows better finger oriented controls over the mouse oriented XP OS. Take a look at a sample pic, look for more sample pics at one of the Sources below: Source via GSMArena

So I’m going to warn you right now. This is a very slow ROM, but if you want to just check out 2.0 real quick and then jump back to your original ROM, then go for it. Figured there were plenty who would want to play 🙂 Remember this is only for rooted G1s (so do our 1 Click Root and How To Load a Custom ROM if you haven’t already), then continue like normal; rename to update.zip and put on the root of your SD card, boot into recovery and Wipe then Apply. MAKE SURE YOU DO A NANDROID

So our friends over at BBLeaks.com got their hands on the User Manual for the Motorola Droid.  Figured some people here might be interested in taking a peek 🙂 Download it from here as a PDF. Source

Here guys, just thought this was a great read from Gizmodo about how scary powerful Google is. Here it is quoted from Gizmodo.com: “Today, as soon as Google showed off its beta GPS navigator, the stocks of Garmin, TomTom and other companies in that industry fell into the toilet. It’s hard to compete with free Google apps, but that’s not why they’re screwed… TomTom owns Tele Atlas, who drives the roads of the world in order to make maps, and until recently was a major map provider for Google. Nokia owns the only major competitor, Navteq, who has also provided maps for Google.

A reader of ours sent us what HTC sent him regarding the 1.6 Donut update for the HTC Hero. It goes as follows: “Dear HTC customer, Thank you for contacting our Customer Support Center. We are dedicated to providing you with the best quality service and answering all of your questions and concerns. The Hero will not be receiving the Android 1.6 upgrade, it will however get the 2.0 one. Do note however that we do not have a confirmed release date for this upgrade, all I can recommend at the moment is that you keep yourself updated by visiting

So it is just a rumor but the sources seem pretty confident. The rumor is that Verizon is going to be releasing their first two droid handsets on November 6th; the Motorola Droid and the Droid Eris. The Motorola Droid is Motorola’s section Android device and is a nice option for anyone on Verizon that wants a physical keyboard. The Eris is the Verizon CDMA version of the HTC Hero that Sprint recently picked up. So who’s ditching their current company for either, and who’s already on big red but plan to swarm the storm on the 6th? 🙂 Source

So Sony Officially announced that it will be formally announcing the highly anticipated Xperia X3 (X10?) on November 3rd! Check out the new event page that popped up… http://www.sonyericsson.com/whatsnext/ Apparently when the site was first posted, you could view the source of the page and notice the mention of the word Rachael (the X3’s codename) a few times 🙂 Interested in getting this phone collectively with our other readers? Sign up in the Collective Buying Forums so everyone can try to get better pricing on it when it is released! Source via EngadgetMobile

So after all the speculations and rumors, T-Mobile finally officially reveals their plans for Project Dark. So T-Mobile breaks down the Project Dark Even More Plans into the following: You choose annual contract or no contract If you do no contract, you get to do an interest free payment plan for the retail cost of the phone Great new phones coming out soon Best pricing on 3G data New affordable unlimited plans So lets break the plans down further, shall we? Basically, there are two plan categories. There is Even More and Even More Plus. The plans for both are

So Verizon has launched the Motorola Droid’s promo site a little early. Here are the specs listed: 3.7″ 480×854 resolution touchscreen 5.0MP camera with dual flash 550mhz processor Bluetooth, Wifi, and 16GB microsd included EDIT: Click Here for the PDF brochure on the Motorola Sholes “Droid”, THANKS CHUCK! Here are the pics from BoyGeniusReport. Source

So HTC announced via a Tweet today that they have posted up the Hero Kernel for download on their site, http://developer.htc.com/. Now while this is really for the Devs out there, here is what it could mean to the rest of us once the Devs start to play 🙂 The kernel is what controls the basic functions of the OS. So with the Hero kernel we get access to a lot more functions that were previously out of reach. Modding of Rosie for instance (the Hero UI), which could lead to faster performance tweaks and also themes. Bluetooth to work

ARM has just launched their new multicore processors for mobile devices. These processors will offer much better processing for any small devices, use less than half of the power (which means increased battery life), and still be about the same size as previous ARM processors. Faster processing, better battery life, without sacrificing the size of my phone/MID? Get to work already! Source via GSMArena

Ok, this isn’t a huge surprise to me (a let down, but not a surprise). The new Nokia N900, which was originally scheduled to release in October, will now start shipping sometime in November. I kind of guessed at this when I saw the dates for the Nokia N900 Meetups around the world and saw that Chicago’s meetup was on November 2nd. This would have meant that the phone was already available (if it released in Oct as originally expected) by the time Nokia showed it off in Chicago. So why goto the meetup when you could buy the device

Some new rumor is that the highly anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia X3, aka the Rachael, might actually be called the X10 instead of X3 (maybe to keep Windows Mobile devices as X1 – X9, and Android X10 – X19?). There is also a release date rumored as well. They claim the phone will be announced in November and then hopefully released in February 2010. 1GHz Snapdragon, Large Screen, first custom UI that can compete with the Hero UI, excited yet? Also, if our community buying works out for the N900 coming out in a week or two, then we’ll be

PocketNow released some leaked screen shots of, what appears to be, mockups for the new UI in Windows Mobile 7 (although there is some speculation going around that this is for another version in between, 6.5.1). Here are the pics for you to judge, regardless of any of our opinions though, I think we all agree its an upgrade at least… Source