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

So BoyGeniusReport has gotten some live pictures of the new Motorola Calgary from Verizon. It is an Android device that also has MotoBlur on it (like the CLIQ for T-Mobile). Some of it’s features include: 3MP Camera 3.5mm Headphone Jack Slide out QWERTY Keyboard GPS Digital Compass WiFi Check out the pics, what do you think? Source

Ok so a ninja brought us some very interesting photos. They show us an HTC phone (you can see the HTC logo at the top) with a larger screen and high resolution (you can tell by the size of the Android in the center) running Android on it… Could this be the HTC Dragon we have heard about? The Dragon I believe will be the Android equivalent of the Touch HD2 (same hardware mostly and just Android instead of Windows Mobile). You can also see the trackball at the bottom of the phone which could be easily added by HTC to

So here is a leaked live shot of the new Sony X3 we mentioned a while back. Not much to see here honestly, but I’m excited because after live shots usually comes the device launch not TOO long after 🙂 I also noticed that there is no Sony UI that we say before on the internet, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be there on the final model…

So over at BoyGeniusReport seems to have gotten a very early Xmas present for Android users. Android 2.0 has the following upgrades (and it’s a lot): Combined Inbox Exchange Support New Google Maps w/ Layers (Wikipedia etc.) New browser (no Flash 10, and no multitouch yet, but still an improved browser) YouTube Widget Haptic Feedback Text-to-Speech Car Home Application (to make it easier/safer to use your phone while driving) Redone Contacts (new submenu when you tap on a contact’s image) They have tons of screenshots and info on Android 2.0. I think it best for you to just go over

So ever wish there was one more device you could cram into a cell phone? Well how about your TV? The ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) just approved Mobile DTV broadcast standard. This means that manufacturer’s can start creating Mobile DTV receivers (since there is a standard and they know that their device will be able to pick up the signals being broadcast correctly). Samsung has also announced along side the ATSC’s standard, their new DTV receiver (smart marketing there, Sammy). Devices with these receivers will be able to watch local programming being broadcast for free. Same way your old