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Fancy a bit pf iPhone Bling? They’ve already given a MacBook Pro gold and iMacs too, and now Computer Choppers has set their eyes on the Apple iPhone 3G and dripped it with a touch of shine.

Apparently though, because of the poor quality of the plastic used on the Apple iPhone 3G it has taken some time to be able to plate the gold. However, the company now has the pleaser, or so they claim, to have delivered the first” iPhone 3G with 24K yellow gold housing and bezel”.

The Computer Chompers team quips: “Some other companies were hyping it up like they had done it before the phone was even released but they don’t have photos to back up the talk.”

Apparently tests are still being undergone for when the rich and famous wish to have their latest bit of bling tarted with their personalised moniker.

Price…obviously is none at the moment but then it’s obviously gone to be way beyond the means of most.

Source – chipchick via pocket-lint

The last Nokia S60 mobile phone to land in the United States was the Nokia N75 roughly a year ago, and it is about time another made its way there, and it seems one is about to.

Hopping over the pond from Europe on T-Mobile, the Nokia 6650 is paying a visit stateside care of AT&T.

Not only will the Nokia 6650 bring a touch of Symbian love to the American Symbian lovers but it will also bring them its 2.0 QVGA display with secondary display to the front of this Nokia clamshell.

Other goodies our American friends can expect are HSDPA 850/1900 support, GPS, a 2 megapixel camera, and of course that AT&T Navigator.

Not a great deal considering what the superphones can offer, but enough to keep the Symbian lovers happy over there.

No word on when it will hit the shores or just how many bucks it will be asking, so I guess we’ll just have to sit tight and wait until the word gets out.

Source – Engadget via Mobilewhack

We have all lined up for you, Nokia’s latest N-series, if you want to know what we think of the latest Nokia creations then read on.

Ok, they may only be the prototype devices but it has given us a good indication of what’s hot and what’s not. We were extremely impressed by the Nokia E-series so they will have to go a long way to impress us after that.

We have almost discarded the N96 and N79, as the three phones almost have identical specifications; it’s the N85 that shines out from the series. The N79 screen is almost embarrassing and the N96 just looks bulky.

We only want to talk about the N85 as this seriously is the only one of the series we think is worth talking about. It has a fantastic OLED screen, 16GB built-in memory, GPS and Wi-Fi and 5 megapixel camera, although most of these are pretty standard on the new top of the range handsets.

We wouldn’t say that the Nokia N series are the thinnest phones either, there is a lot of competition out there and we would have thought Nokia would have come out with a phone to blow us away.

Needless to say we are not blown away at all with the Nokia N-series. Oh, well apart from the price tag of around $895.

Source: engadgetmobile

Rumours and speculation on when Sprint would be releasing the HTC Touch Diamond have been surfing the net waves for quite some time, there is even a rumour that Sprint will make a red version available.

So now comes a whisper that seems to announce the exact release date, but as yet no press release to confirm this is fact.

The word is that Sprint existing and potential customers will be able to grab hold of the Sprint HTC Touch Diamond handset as from tomorrow the 28th of August.

Word is Sprint wil be offering up the HTC Touch Diamond at $299.00 on a two year contract, at if you fancy owning the Touch Diamond with contract it’ll set you back a cool $549.00.

Finally the CDMA Sprint version of the HTC Touch Diamond will sport a much bigger 1,350mAh battery, which we can only presume will bring quite a lot of hours calling and surfing the World Wide Web.

Source – intomobile

Latest news it that O2 has started offering a joint fixed broadband and mobile deal to their customers, customers who sign up will receive O2 Mobile Broadband for £20.00 per month. This new deal will include 3GB of data along with unlimited WiFi, and gives the customer the standard home broadband package free of charge for a year.

A seemingly clever move by O2 which not only adds value for the customer but also actually allows O2 to “own” the customer as with the use of some top notch analytical software, O2 should be able to find out a great deal on their customers internet usage, which could possibly result in far better and more tailored deals from O2.

This new joint package is available to customers who sign-up to O2 Mobile Broadband from 1st August to October 31st 08, and who reside within the O2 Home Broadband network, which is roughly 60 percent of the UK’s population.

This new deal is also available to existing O2 customers currently on Mobile and Home Broadband. Furthermore, customers not covered by O2’s broadband network or wish to upgrade to a higher speed package with gain a £7.50 discount per month on their preferred plan for a year.

Source – intomobile

The iPhone Dev Team have released the latest PwnageTool update PwnageTool 2.0.2, and brings with it a fresher compatibility with the Apple iPhone 2.0.1 OS and includes the much awaiting Installer 4 beta.

The last whisper was that the iPhone 2.0.1 OS was bundled with a new baseband firmware which was speculated to prevent future SIM unlocking and break the PwnageTool 2.0.1 jailbreak process.

Now the iPhone Dev Team goes public with their PwnageTool 2.0.2, which means Apple iPhone users can once again jailbreak all firmware versions of the iPhone OS on both iPhone and iPhone 3G. Yes this means that jailbreak apps will now work with the latest Apple iPhone OS.

The PwnageTool 2.0.2 actually creates custom .ipsw files which replace Apple’s iPhone 3G baseband firmware with an unlock friendly baseband firmware, which means it will preserve the users iPhone 3G compatibility with SIM unlock solutions that the Dev Team may launch.

A quick word of warning for anyone who downloads the PwnageTool 2.0.2, DO NOT use anything other than your Mac’s built-in decompression tool to un-archive the .tbz file, otherwise you are likely to gain corrupt files.

Source – iPhone Dev Team

The latest whisper running around is that Rogers could be launching Research In Motion’s push emailing BlackBerry Bold 9000 on 19th August. RIM’s BlackBerry Bold has already launched in Austria, Germany and Chile however a North American release is rumoured to be still a few weeks away.

The BlackBerry Bold 9000 is Research In Motion’s first 3G smartphone and thus represents a new age dawning for the BlackBerry name.

The BlackBerry Bold is a sleeker more consumer orientated mobile phone, sporting a cool crisp 480 x 320 display while running on the new BlackBerry OS 4.6 UI.

RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9000 is quad-band 850/900/1800/1900Mhz GPRS/EDGE, tri-band 850/1900/2100Mhz UMTS/HSDPA (3G), and offers a 2 megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0, side loading memory slot and 1GB onboard memory, WiFi, GPS, BlackBerry Media Sync, 3.5mm headphone jack, up to 5 hours GSM talk time and up to 13 days standby time.
Video review below

Source – mobilesyrup

Seems that the mobile carriers are all copying each other with online mobile music stores, as now the newest announcement is that O2UK and Sony BMG have launched their new music store, which they say is apparently the first store to be supported jointly by both operator and label.

The joint venture will be known as “MyPlay” and access is only granted via the O2 Active portal. At the “MyPlay” store content will include full track audio, realtones via artist microsites, and videos.

The O2UK and Sony BMG “MyPlay” site should utilize the extensive catalogue of Sony BMG; however the launch will have a subset of artists available with the idea being to offer n-depth content more than a large variety.

“MyPlay” store prices are music tracks will cost £0.99, realtones will be £3.50 and videos will set the user back £1.50.

Source – gsmworld

Now another music download store hits the net waves for the UK as Vodafone launch their second online music store. If you are a regular Vodafone customer you will probably be aware of Omnifone’s streaming MusicStation service which has been running for a while now, now Vodafone has added their “Vodafone Music”.

“Vodafone Music” is run as a client app on the mobile phone and utilizes the built in music player.

To begin with, eleven mobile phone models will be able to use the service while the application will be able to be downloaded onto other mobile handsets.

Prices at “Vodafone Music” will be £0.99 for single tracks while albums will cost £7.99, and unlimited tracks will cost in the region of £1.99 per week.

With the arrival of “Vodafone Music”, one has to wonder what effect it may have on the Omnifone service.

Source – vodafone

Research In Motion is gearing up for its counter offensive assault against the Apple iPhone 3G with the launch of the Canadian based BlackBerry 2008 T-Mobile roadmap. Due to a leaked pipeline at T-Mobile we are receiving word of at least five new BlackBerry handset will be hitting the T-Mobile network in the next few months.

T-Mobile will be launching the Blackberry Pearl 8120 in three colours, Tahitian Green, Indigo, and Light Blue. Each will run on the BlackBerry OS 4.5, and will be followed by the clamshell BlackBerry Pearl 8220 in late September or early October.

In late November or early December T-Mobile is expected to launch the BlackBerry Javelin, which is considered EDGE only variant on the BlackBerry Bold. The BlackBerry Javelin however, will not offer users 3G data speeds.

The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 will however feature the OS 4.6.0, while the BlackBerry javelin will feature the OS 4.6.1.

Source – blackberrynews