If you are in the UK and want an iPhone 4S direct from Apple to be delivered, there’s now a 1 – 2 week wait on pre-orders. We’re not sure how Apple [AAPL] has allocated stock between carriers and the company but it also doesn’t come as a surprise that demand is high.

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As today is October 7, Apple [AAPL] has now made the iPhone 4S available for pre-order in several countries around the world. For those of you here in the UK we thought we’d list where the iPhone 4S can be pre-ordered from.

If you want it unlocked and SIM free then Apple is the place to go. At 8:43am Apple started taking pre-orders for all iPhone 4S models. You can order from Apple at this page here.

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The store was rumoured to open at 8am UK time and twitter was full of buyers wanting to get hold of it. Eventually, Apple [AAPL] opened up its online UK store and now has the iPhone 4S available for pre-order.

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Each time a new popular gadget launches various companies attempt to calculate what profit margins the company will see. With the announcement of the Apple iPhone 4S a few days ago, we now have the first breakdown of what one company thinks it costs to make.

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HTC has announced the Sensation XL smartphone. This particular model comes at the same time as another device also announced by HTC. The HTC Sensation XL is launching tomorrow and has a 4.7 inch screen that is Super LCD and has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The device is also a Beats Audio device and carries the logo on the back which makes it good choice for this in to music.

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One of the early problems with the Google Android operating system was that the company pushed out a lot of updates quite quickly. This meant that each time a new device came out it often had a new version of an OS installed but that some older devices were stuck on older versions. Google [GOOG] is now slowing down on how often it pushes out updates for Android and since making that change you can now see the older Android 1.X and early 2.x devices slowly getting smaller on the graph. What we see below is the latest update on the percentage of devices that use various versions:

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The photo below is believed to give a brief glimpse at the Google Nexus Prime. As you can see from the side profile, it has a curved glass front and looks very slim.

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One of the updates on the new iPhone 4S is the camera. It now has an 8 Megapixel sensor that is backlit and has modified optics to capture more light. The results are now available on the Apple website showing the standard images that were seen yesterday in the iPhone 4S announcement.

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Apple [AAPL] has just launched the latest version of iOS 5 to developers. This time it’s iOS 5 GM that launches. We haven’t downloaded yet, but when installed we expect to see the final version that will launch next week. At this point the iOS 5 update is quite final although there’s a slim chance a small bug could find its way in there.

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After months of rumours and “leaked” details, Apple [AAPL] has now announced the new iPhone 4S. The release date for the new smartphone is the 14th October with pre-orders opening on the 7th.

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iOS 5 has been available to developers for a few months now. A number of new features are included such as better notifications, reminders and various other features. When Apple [AAPL] took the stage today they announced the iOS 5 release date as October 12 which is this time next week.

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A new smartphone has been announced by LG. The LG Optimus LTE has a few new features which includes LTE connectivity to speed up downloads of data. As well as getting a connectivity boost, LG has also included a 4.5 inch IPS display which they call IPS True HD. The resolution of the screen is 1280 x 720 pixels and is claimed to be the first of its kind that will launch in South Korea.

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