A new Android app has been launched that aims to hide tethering from carriers. The reason some users might want to do this is so that they can pay for the data allowance on their mobile plan and then use that allowance to either browse on a mobile device or browse on a laptop tethered to the device. Recently, carriers have decided to charge for tethering which means an additional cost to the user, even if they stay within their plan.

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The Samsung Galaxy S II is now beginning to get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update although the update isn’t official. This particular update comes from SamMobile who managed to get hold of an alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich. As it’s Alpha, it’s a little buggy still although you do get a sense of what ICS will run and look like on the SGS2.

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Last week, an app for Android was released called Siri for Android. The app was fake although in order to try convince people to download it, the developer decided to call himself “Official App” and also use the official Siri icon as the Android version icon. When loading up the app is simply took users to Google Voice Actions.

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What you see below is what is believed to be a leaked roadmap of Windows Phone and where Microsoft [MSFT] is taking it.

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Rumours are heating up for the iPhone 5 launch. Although the date for launch isn’t known at the moment, it will likely be sometime from June to October of 2012 depending on if Apple [AAPL] have permanently changed the yearly cycle from June to October as done with the iPhone 4S. The latter month is more likely to be the launch month to make it around 5 – 6 months after the iPad 3 launch.

What we hear today, which also comes as no surprise, is that the iPhone 5 will be redesigned. Apple tend to do this with the iPhone… think 3G/3GS and 4/4S.

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Dropbox 2.0 for Android is now ready for download. The new app has been completely redesigned and now has more new features than before. Some of these features include the ability to star items to keep them stored locally on a device and on to Ice Cream Sandwich support.

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ultrasn0w has received an update which now brings it up to version 1.2.5. Along with that update comes more support for unlocking devices running the iOS 5.0.1 operating system.

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Google has paused the Nexus S Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update due to a few bugs found within. Problems found by those who have updated include issues with battery life, overheating and slow responses on the device.

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Andy Rubin has commented that the Google Android operating system is seeing 700,000 devices activated each day. A lot of those will be smartphones although Android is also installed on tablets as well.

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Update: It appears that this was a bug and that 3.1.3 devices are now once again able to access the App Store direct on their iOS device.

iPhone and iPod touch users still running iOS 3.1.3 are now (as of the 16th December 2011) unable to directly download apps from the App Store. Instead, new updates and apps will need to be downloaded in iTunes and then synced to the iPhone or iPod.

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Nokia has announced that it will be launching an update in January for the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. The update will attempt to fix the battery bug that has been limiting the life of the device between charges.

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Samsung has confirmed that a number of Galaxy smartphones will be getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in 2012. The first two devices confirmed for the update in Q1 next year are the Galaxy S 2 and the Galaxy Note. Other devices will follow shortly after.

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