There is finally some good news for the owners of the Verizon locked Palm Pixi Plus as Big Red is rolling out the highly anticipated webOS update 1.4.5. Some of the owners of the Palm Pixi Plus from Big Red across the country have already started receiving the update which comes up with a number of bug fixes and the addition of PDK support.

Even Palm has the details of the firmware upgrade listed on its website and that is how we came to know about the pleasing gaming titles this update will add to the webOS laden handset. While the update will surely please the gaming fanatics, the Pre Plus owners also using VZW services will be a tad annoyed.

The reason is that the update is only going public for the Pixi Plus subscribers and the Pre Plus is arguably being ignored for now. The Pre Plus is also sold through AT&T in the US and even the AT&T subscribers will have to wait desperately for the update 1.4.5 without any clue about the arrival date.via devicenation

Huawei officially introduce its firs Froyo handset at IFA in Berlin.The phone comes with a 2.8 inch touchscreen display, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11n, 3.2MP camera, and a 528MHz processor.

Dell Aero is finally available in US and supposed to cost $99.99 with a new 2-year AT&T contract,The Aero sports a 3.5-inch 360 x 640 capacitive touchscreen display, a 624MHz processor, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, a 2GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and runs on Android 1.5 OS.

Other  specs of the Aero:

• Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA (850/1900/2100 MHz)
• WiFi + Bluetooth
• 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash
• 2 GB Micro SD card included, supports cards up to 32 GB
• Full HTML Browser with Adobe Flash Lite
• GPS/A-GPS navigation
• POP, IMAP, Webmail and Microsoft Active Sync E-mail
• Dimensions: 122 x 57.9 x 11.7 mm
• Weight: 104 g

Here is an web browser comparasion between Windows Phone 7 Vs iPhone Vs Nexus One.

Acer Stream is a new phone which will be available in the UK starting next month,for £399.99 (475 Euros or $607). It looks like the retailer will have exclusivity on the device in the UK for the beginning.The Acer Stream runs Android 2.1 and uses Acer’s Touch 3D UI (version 4.0). It features some really nice stuff, like a 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, Dolby Mobile sound enhancement, HDMI port, 5MP autofocus camera, 720p video recording (at 24fps), 512MB ROM, 512MB RAM, 2GB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support.

The IM-A630K “Crystal de Izar” from Pantech is the latest phone dedicated for womens, and its based on Google’s OS.The handset’s other features include a 3.2 inch WVGA touchscreen display, Bluetooth, T-DMB TV tuner, a 5MP photo camera and a 4GB memory card preinstalled.The Pantech A630K should be available in South Korea (via KT) starting July. Like the Sirius, the new smartphone will receive an Android 2.2 Froyo update later this year.

Samsung is definitely upbeat about the presence of its Super AMOLED touchscreen in the Galaxy S (that also features the pacier Hummingbird processor) and this success story is making Sony restless in its labs. Sony has readied and unveiled a prototype of its pressure-sensitive tactile touchscreen which promises to take touch sensitivity a step ahead.

The prototype demoed was an LCD touchscreen with force sensing resistors and piezoelectric actuators those could sense how much pressure is being applied and vibrate the panel accordingly. It is a Cover-face like interface can shuffle icons faster when more pressure is applied and vice-versa.

The prototype was merely demoed and no one actually got a chance to lay their hands on it, but Sony did take care of the disappointment by announcing its commercialization plans.

Sony intends to make this technology usable for cellphones at the earliest despite the fact that the applied pressure technology is in the prototype stage.

[via: Engadget]

The first edition of the Droid got mixed reactions across the world with a US specific version doing particularly well while the one received in the UK wasn’t a success. The next edition of the phone is eagerly awaited with more Android goodness and as gossip hounds prepare to talk about the specs, the first blurred image of the Droid successor has already surfaced on the web.

The model snapped in particular is listed as Motorola A955 while in the filing documents it was spotted alongside the Xtreme which is known with other names such as the Shadow and the ‘X’ in different places. This clearly implies that the Droid II and the Droid Xtreme are well and truly different devices.

[Via: Mobilecrunch]