RIM just announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800 this morning. The new BlackBerry Torch will run the long awaited OS 6 when it launches in a couple of weeks time.

Along with the launch details earlier today, a press release was sent out that indicates that older devices will not be getting an update to BlackBerry OS 6.

Subject to carrier certifications in the months ahead, the new OS is expected to be available for the BlackBerry® Bold¢ 9700, BlackBerry® Bold¢ 9650 and BlackBerry® Pearl¢ 3G, as well as future BlackBerry smartphones.

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The latest BlackBerry smartphone has been made official. The new device is the BlackBerry Torch 9800 which runs the new OS 6.

Features include a 3.2 inch touchscreen that has a resolution of 480 x 360 pixels. When launched, it will be headed to the AT&T [T] network.

Other features include a slide out QWERTY keyboard along with a wireless 802.11b/g/n connection and Bluetooth 2.1. The camera is capable of capturing images at five megapixels and the phone has a built in flash. [Read more…]

The iPhone 4 Jailbreak launched yesterday in the form of a site you load up on your Safari browser on the iPhone. A small file is downloaded at that point which then can exploit the iPhone and allow access to install Cydia etc…

The exploit used takes advantage of an automatic PDF download in iOS that the jailbreak can inject jailbreak code and when you use the slide to jailbreak slider, the jailbreak code is executed that opens up the iPhone to be exploited.

The downside of this is that the vulnerability can also be opened up to malicious intent in that you could visit a website, click a button for example, and have executable code injected in to iOS that has a different agenda to what jailbreaking does. [Read more…]

The iPhone 4 jailbreak launched yesterday and along with that launch came an even easier way to jailbreak your device. Rather than downloading an app on to your PC or Mac, you simply visit a website in Safari on your iPhone 4, slide a slide to jailbreak button and away it goes.

This simple approach to jailbreaking the iPhone 4 means that even the in store demo units at Apple stores can be jailbroken as demoed in the video below.

The jailbreak was done by an Apple [AAPL] fan who visited a local Apple store and captured the whole process on camera. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] Android smartphones are outselling the Apple [AAPL] iPhone in the US according to a recent report by analyst group Nielsen.

In terms of percentages, the number of smartphones sold this year using Google Android accounted for 27% of all smartphone sales. The Apple iPhone accounted for 23 percent of sales.

“While the iPhone has been the headline grabber over the last few years in the smartphone market, Google’s Android OS has shown the most significant expansion in market share among current subscribers,” writes Nielsen on its blog.

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The EVO 4G Android 2.2 update is now rolling out as of today (as previously promised a few days ago).

The update brings the usual Android 2.2 upgrades to the smartphone including the speedier interface along with a bunch of other features.

If you haven’t received a notification of the download yet, you can manually check for new updates through the settings menu at which point you will be presented with the option to download and install the new update. [Read more…]

Sprint [S] has uploaded a teaser site showing off the Samsung Epic 4G that is launching soon.

The new Epic 4G is a dual-mode handset capable of working on either 3G or 4G networks. No new information is revealed on the Sprint site although it does show a teaser video of the camera being used although it isn’t a real life example. Other “coming soon” videos include gaming and movie watching. The mini site teaser page can be found here. [Read more…]

LG has announced the LG Wink Series aimed at the younger end of phone users. The new phone series is designed for those who want a phone that looks stylish and has good connectivity.

The Wink Series is a group of three full-touch screen handsets which include the Wink, Wink Style and Wink 3G. Each device lets users text, listen to music, connect up to social networks and customise a friendly user interface to allow each user to customise exactly how it is. [Read more…]

Over the weekend the HTC Desire Android 2.2 update started rolling out as planned. The new Froyo update brings the new features of Android 2.2 to an already good smartphone.

Smartphones that have received the latest update are reported to run faster than when runningprevious Android versions. Another feature now allows the camera to capture video in HD at 720p allowing for more crystal clear images to be captured. [Read more…]

When jailbreaking an iPhone there’s quite a lot to take in to consideration such as which iPhone you have, what baseband it runs, what OS it currently runs, what boot loader it has etc… When you figure out exactly what model of phone you have along with the other information you then need to match it up to the right jailbreak and unlock to make sure it works as needed.

The Jailbreakmatrix website helps make things a lot easier by showing all versions of the iPhone along with various boot loaders and basebands to let you know what you need to do to jailbreak and unlock it. [Read more…]

We first saw Windows Phone 7 a number of months back. Up till now we have been guessing at the Windows Phone 7 launch date in that we have heard it is sometime between now and Christmas.

The latest hint is possibly the strongest suggestion so far in that we now hear the European launch will be held in October while the US launch will be in November.

The information comes from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner who was at a presentation recently. [Read more…]

We mentioned earlier today that a new iPhone 4 jailbreak was now available. The browser based jailbreak is able to jailbreak any iPhone up to iOS 4.0.1.

We are now hearing that an iPhone 4 unlock is incoming and that it will arrive soon, as in a couple of days time. The information comes from a tweet that said the unlock is in a private beta at the moment and will follow within 48 hours of the jailbreak (which has been launched).

It isn’t clear if users will be able to upgrade to iOS 4.1 in a few weeks time when that launches, but we assume that a jailbreak and unlock for 4.1 will also be in the works as soon as the final version is released. [Read more…]