BlackBerry Storm 2

We only told you about the possibility of seeing a next generation BlackBerry Storm, the Storm 2 earlier in the week and now it seems that rumor has been confirmed to be true. RIM’s Alain Segond von Banchet, Channel Sales Manager in the Netherlands has confirmed the release of the Storm 2. It will be due later in the year, for Europe: late ‘09 or early 2010! What the sales manager wasn't being so honest about was whether the Storm 2 will be upgraded with WiFi, despite this, it seems very obvious that this hardware update will be inevitable if RIM wants to continue to compete with its rivals using the Storm 2. Hopefully we'll see more info of the successor of the first BlackBerry full touchscreen mobile soon.

LG Arena out by this weekend

It was a great opportunity for us to be able to take part in the launch of the LG Arena KM900 blogger event last night in London. We know from some of your messages that there’s been quite alot of interest in the phone since it was first announced during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), we’re happy to tell you all that the Arena will officially be available by the end of this weekend.

We were told at the event by LG Sales and Marketing Director, John Barton that the Arena will be arriving the UK mobile networks, Orange and T-Mobile, not surprisingly Phones4u and the Carphone Warhouse will also be involved in retailing.


“Vodafone is likely to stock the handset,” added John during the presentation.

Most of you will have seen the Arena in silver metallic casing and this has been confirmed to be the Orange unit. However, we have learnt that the T-Mobile version will sport a titanium black exterior.

Tariff deals for the Arena currently available for pre-order (via the Carphone) are priced at £35 per month on a contract length of 18 months.

We’ll keep everyone updated with photos and reviews of the LG Arena as we take a closer look at the demo unit we received last night.

Apple iPhone firmware OS 3.0 event announced - March 17

Some exciting news today folks, Apple have just announced that a special event will be held on March 17 (in just five days!) at 10am PST (1pm EST). Its expected that Apple will be showing off the latest version of the iPhone OS firmware version 3.0 along with a brand new updated SDK (software development kit).

So far, the news has been that MMS will finally be coming to the iPhone, in addition tethering via bluetooth and USB have also been suggested! I’m sure there will be many more to be revealed on that day, its now just a matter of how much info gets leaked. We expect to see something exciting with this new version of OS, wonder what Apple has in store for everyone!?