Windows Phone Marketplace Now Accepts Mango App Submissions

 

Around a month or so ago, on July 21, Microsoft updated on the status of the Marketplace. At that time, Redmond promised that Mango-specific application submissions to the Marketplace will be possible in a month's time.

Now, around one month later, the Windows Phone Marketplace is open to Mango-specific app submissions. "The infrastructure for accepting your Mango apps is coming online as we speak", says Todd Brix so you might even already see new content on your phone. The Blog promises more details on the Mango submission in the next 24 hours. Now all we need is the Mango update itself for wave 1 devices and the wave 2 devices themselves.

Apple's Next iPhone Reportedly A GSM/CDMA World Phone

 

There have been many rumors about the upcoming Apple-phone, some referring to hardware, others to release dates but we're still not 100% sure when the next iPhone will be released and what it's exact hardware specs will be.

A developer of some of the most popular iOS apps has approached Techcrunch and, while asking for anonymity, confirmed that the next iPhone will be a GSM/CDMA world phone. The person sent in some logs which reportedly show app registrations from a new Apple-phone, running iOS 5.

Different persons running the same hardware but with different mobile network codes and mobile country codes have registered for the application and these codes reveal Verizon and AT&T as carriers. Based on this information, we're likely to see a single world phone solution from Apple for their upcoming phone, as suggested earlier by Verizon CFO Fran Shammo.

RIM Announces New BlackBerry Curve 9350/9360/9370 Phones

 

After Research in Motion recently introduced three new phones, the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, Torch 9850/9860 and Torch 9810, today the phone maker announces yet another device, the BlackBerry Curve 9350/9360/9370.

The phone is equipped with a 800 MHz processor and 512 MB ROM and 512 MB RAM for the 9350 and 9360 models, 1 GB ROM and 512 MB RAM for the 9370 variant. The display measures 2.44 inches and has a resolution of 480x360 pixels with 246 ppi, five-megapixel camera with flash (but only VGA video recording), 35 key backlit narrow QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS with aGPS and a 1000 mAh battery. Of course, like with the case of recent RIM-phones, the new Curve runs BlackBerry OS 7.

The BlackBerry Curve 9350/9360/9370 will be available in Canada this month and worldwide in September. Official pricing and exact availability dates have not yet been made public.

Motorola Droid 2 Global Gingerbread Update Leaks

Motorola revealed back in May that it was preparing Gingerbread updates for the Droid Pro, 2, 2 Global, and X. That plan sounded good, but things started to go south quickly, with a buggy Droid X update reportedly even bricking some handsets. Then we heard about the Droid 2 Global's update going into testing, and saw Verizon publish support documents on its site, pointing towards an imminent release of the update. That was all just a bit premature, and Motorola stepped in to set the record straight, thatthe update was not ready for release. Later, we heard that the D2G update might follow the release of the Droid 3, but again, it was nowhere to be seen, and by this point Verizon had removed the support pages for the update. We still don't know when if ever an OTA update for the D2G will be available, but a leaked version of the update been released, giving you the chance to get Gingerbread a little in advance.

System software 4.5.606 brings Gingerbread to the D2G. To install the update, your phone's going to have to be on 2.4.330 without any recovery installed. The update comes without root, and the bootloader is locked, but you can always restore the phone to 2.4.330 if you just want to experiment with the update a little. We'll have to wait and hear from users who have tried out the update themselves to learn just how refined it is, but this could mean that we'll be seeing an official OTA distribution in the near future. 

LG Enlighten for Verizon Fully Exposed (Images)

After months of rumors and teasing, this is LG'sGelato Q QWERTY slider, poised to hit a number of carriers -- including Sprint, US Cellular, Cellular South, and Verizon, as the Enlighten. The Gingerbread-powered XX700 (VS700 on VZW) runs an 800MHz processor and features a 3.2-inch HVGA display. The camera is a 3.2-megapixel job sans flash, although editing software is built into the handset. Internal memory is reported to be 150MB, with a 2GB microSD card bundled into the package.

The keyboard-less Gelato has already been revealed as the LG Optimus Net P690.

Enlighten has been tipped for an August 25th debut (which is this coming Thursday) at a price that will probably start around $100 subsidized and drop down to nothing fairly quickly.