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RIM has been busy lately working hard on offering you new features from your future BlackBerry phones. The company is working on improving the OS which is definitely most welcomed.

BlackBerry OS 5.0 will apparently offer you OpenGL ES support which means that 3D content and games in particular are going to be available soon. BlackBerry Theme Studio is also now available which means themes creation will be a lot easier and faster. The BlackBerry Payment Service has also been introduced so you can expect it to arrive in mid 2010. With the new payment service you'll be able to pay for apps and subscriptions straight from the phone and it's a good alternative to PayPal.


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The long waited Motorola Droid android phone finally show its face. Pocketnow has just got a Motorola Droid from Verizon Wireless this morning and they made a hardware tour video below.


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Rumors are back in the air yet again, we never get bored because rumors are like sex in a long distant relationship, you get some today and you are forced to wait weeks for another crack, thus it never gets boring but ever so frustrating.
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One thing is certain; Motorola will not launch any Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. While waiting for Windows Mobile 7, Motorola will only focus on Android phones. And it looks like Motorola knows what it's doing! The company has already announced the CLIQ while the Droid and the Calgary are two upcoming phones which should be launched by Verizon Wireless soon.


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Contrary to claims that the Apple iPhone 3GS might be immune to jailbreaking, the iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of their jailbreaking tool called PwnageTool 3.1.4, it supports the latest iPhone OS which is found in the 3GS.
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Back in August we posted article about Registration and Submission processes in Windows Marketplace, and now here is the Windows Marketplace for Mobile: Application Submission Walkthrough Video. This screencast by Daniel Bouie from WindowsMobileDev demonstrates how registered developers may submit their application at http://developer.windowsmobile.com/


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We'd like to tell you to get all excited about the next Android update, version 1.6 aka Donut, but sadly this isn't the case right now. The update is coming in the near future so hang on to your beloved Android handsets. What's available right now is the Donut for Dev Phone 1.


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At the beginning of the month Sony Ericsson announced the new Xperia X2 Windows Mobile smartphone and first Windows phone, featuring Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional (Check out the video here). Xperia X2 features the unique Arc-Slider keyboard but the new SlideView feature, which basically replaces the X1's Xpanels, should give the X2 Sony Ericsson's very own user experience in addition to Windows Mobile 6.5. The X2 is designed by Sony Ericsson but unlike the X1 - which was manufactured by HTC - the X2 is now manufactured by Mobinnova.


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Here is video of the Samsung Omnia 2 ToucWiz UI in action. The 800 Mhz processor clearly shows its power is smooth animations and Youtube video playback. It also shows the samsung 3d media cube and the new Opera browser.

Samsung modified the opera such that the bookmark page is now in 3D when the phone is in landscape mode, and the zoom is one-finger zoom. Lastly, tested the opera with a few sites to test its javascript and flash.

Watch the video after the break.


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If you're a Symbian developer then you absolutely have to know that Symbian has a new service for you. Horizon is the new name of the game and it works as a testing portal. Horizon will help you test and standardize your software and you'll be ready in no time to send it to application stores.


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