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Well we knew it was coming sooner or later – thing is, it might well be sooner now that T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) have seen fit to post up some info on their UK site!

We’re apparently going to be in for some HD2-shaped love sometime within the next 28 days – which is nice. Interestingly, Coolsmartphone have picked up a number of errors in the coming soon listing you can see above:

• the device is mistakenly called the HTC Touch HD2
• the picture is actually of the original HTC HD
• the device supposedly has ‘Android Market’
• screen specifications are incorrect

But other than that, it’s pretty accurate Check out what appear to be mistakes here.

Bizarrely, on another area of the T-Mobile site, everything seems to be correct (here). Confused, I am – but then again that’s not difficult to achieve

A few weeks back, I wrote a post, asking which the laggiest handset you have used is – this was following a try-out of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, and my own suggestion that the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N96 I used a good while back didn’t seem to be too fast at the time either!

Well, it generated some responses, and I thought I’d just take a quick look over what the responses were – here they are, in all their glory:

• Nokia N95-3
• HTC Fuze (HTC Touch Pro)
• HTC Imagio
• Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) P990i
• HTC Mini S

Wowzer! Did anyone see three HTC devices in there? Ponderously, there’s a mixture of new AND old handsets, from Mini S, right through to the Imagio of today. But what’s more interesting is that they are all packing Windows Mobile – hmm, could that be the cause of the lagging?

Well, from my own personal experience of running an HTC TyTn, I can definitely say that it wasn’t the fastest thing ever, that’s for sure – and reviewing the Toshiba (OTCPK: TOSBF) TG01 recently (with a  1GHz CPU in it!), I was still seeing bad lagging issues in the WinMo camp. But all the fault can’t rest at the hands of the O/S (probably) – often if there’s a poor implementation on the hardware, that can create real issues too.

Fascinatingly though, HTC have been getting great reviews recently for their devices – and those have been packing both Android and WinMo – so apart from the Imagio, which is perhaps an anomaly (can anyone else confirm?), then maybe they have sorted the issues out…

Certainly I don’t think HTC are the only vendor out there with handset lag issues, there are some worse offenders for sure – so if you’ve got an opinion, hit us up for a comment and let us which device’s UI felt like swimming the wrong way in a river of treacle when you were using it!

It seems a plethora of music-creation Apps have crashed on to the iPhone of late – and I’ve had the opportunity to play with quite a few of them! My stand-out favourite to-date has been Groovemaker, which I think is a genius bit of coding.

So it was with great interest that I received an emailing suggesting I try out Tunemaker, from Makayama. I’ve already posted up some info on its release, so it is nice to get a hands-on and see how the App performs!

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It’s not every day you find a game, which is an arcade game, on a mobile platform, revolving around killing Deer – however, that’s exactly what we have here. Super Happy Fun Fun (no, that’s not a joke!) are releasing Big Buck Hunter Pro for the iPhone, on to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store, for £1.79 (in UK pricing). It’s got a stack of features you probably want to know about too:

• Addictive touch-to-shoot game across 3 stunning 3D hunting destinations to bag that trophy buck
• 3 bonus mini-games: Duck Hunt, Gopher Garden and Frog Flippin’ provide a fun break from the buck hunting action
• Networked and local iPhone leaderboards where players compete for braggin’ rights
• Built-in BBHP Arcade Game Locator with iPhone Location Services to find the nearest networked BBHP arcade unit
• Arcade network integration that allows players to track personal Arcade Leaderboard and Hunting Party standings from their iPhone or iPod touch
• Big Buck Hunter arcade account management and registration

So there you go – I’ve not had a chance to play it yet, so I can’t comment on what it’s like – but if you’d like to check out some screenshots then you can do it here.

Whilst TomTom is often considered to be the leading brand for standalone Sat Nav systems, the situation on Mobile devices is quite radically different.

TomTom actually missed a beat when it came to mobile devices (specifically the iPhone), because their software wasn’t first-to-market, and in fact the other contenders have produced some pretty good solutions! Case in point: the Mobile Maps application, from Sygic.

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Newsy newsy news – gotta love it – and this piece of news relates to the diversification of carriers on which the iPhone 3G(S) will officially sit in the UK! Orange are taking the lead (in following O2 (NYSE: TEF)), and getting the device ready for sale on the 10th November – also known as next Tuesday (relative to today).

The iPhone will be available in all 402 of Oranges stores, online, and also in the HMV outlets that Orange has a concession in. But not only that, Apple stores will have the Orange variant, along with Carphone Warehouse (and now Phones4U too!).

So what are the price points then? I mean, right now, that’s all anyone really wants to know:

Well, on Contract, you’ll need to pay £45/month to get the 3GS for free, and £30/month if you want the 3G model for free – those are 24-month kickers, so quite a commitment there. All the plans including unlimited Internet access (with fair use policy!), and also access to BT Openzone for WiFi (hmm, that model sounds very familiar!), with varying minutes/text dependent on the tariff. However, from a cursory glance I gave them, the tariffs look almost exactly the same, give or take a couple of pounds each way. Check it out in detail here.

On PAYG, again, the pricing seems frighteningly similar – forgetting the minutiae of the tariffs for a moment, the upfront costs of the devices (topping out at £539 for the iPhone 3GS), is pretty much exactly the same as O2 again. Check it out in detail here.

There are also some SME tariffs (here), just in case you might be interested – but I think the summary is that you are going to be paying pretty similar rates wherever you go. Nice.

[Original story via: Macworld.co.uk]

Anyone that regularly reads IntoMobile will know that I think the Groovemaker range of Apps are awesome – sitting in a perfect niche between recreational music, and professional music production – they are kinda like the guitar hero of mobile music production, but there’s real productivity in here too – it’s no game!

So just the other day, IK Multimedia, the creators of Groovemaker, released two new versions of the application – Electro and Drum n Bass (here). In this post, I’m writing down my thoughts on the Drum ‘n’ Bass (DnB) App, having used it quite extensively! More after the jump….

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Well, that’s what TechDigest reckons – and they are following up on evidence that the SE-Blog found on the Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) site!

For those of you that had forgotten the specs:

• 4?, 800 x 400 touchscreen
• 2G: 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-Band)
• 3G: 900/2100 (Dual-Band);  HSDPA (10Mbps), HSUPA (2Mbps)
• 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and 8 x digital zoom
• LED Flash / Image Stabilization / Smile Shutter / Face Detection / VGA Video Recording
• POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, MS Exchange e-mail
• miniUSB, 3.5mm AV connector
• Bluetooth (2.1), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g), AGPS

Electricpig.co.uk have got their hands on the second device to be launched under Vodafone UKs ‘360′ moniker. The Samsung M1 is the little brother of the H1 – but still packs a good wadge of features! How does 3G + 3MP camera + 3.2″ screen strike you?

Of course the main thing punting this device along is the Vodafone 360 software layer – which syncs in all your contacts from numerous social networks, along with IM and email.

Anyhow, check out the Electricpig.co.uk photo gallery from their time with the device here.

We don’t know pricing and timing yet, but let’s hope we find out soon enough!

[Via: Electricpig.co.uk]