A few days ago Apple quietly crossed the 250.000 barrier applications available in the App Store. Last Sunday the counter applications available on the website showed more than 254.400 AppShopper programs for the iPhone, iPod touch and IPAD. Virtual Apple faced a very rapid increase in the value of 225.000, which was reached in June. This message will appear on Sept. 1 at the Apple conference.

As you know, smart phones Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 line went on sale on the basis of fairly old version of the operating system - Android 1.6. And, of course, their owners are eagerly awaiting the firmware upgrade at least until Android 2.1, but now the release of the next version - Android 2.2. We already wrote that these smartphones can get Android 2.1 in the fourth quarter of this year. And now there were other data - on an earlier release of the update.

As we have repeatedly written, Smartphone Motorola Droid 2 now preparing to release the operator Verizon Wireless. And although not all data about this device, informal, American chain electronics stores Best Buy, apparently seriously intends to sell novelty. At least in its stores already have been seen such devices. However, this mock-ups - they do not work. Photos of these models in different angles published resource Engadget. According to the source, these models are very similar to Motorola Droid, keyboard only looks different.

Company Research In Motion (RIM) has not officially announced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 smartphone, but it is already available for order from the Canadian operator Rogers. According to rumors, this model is already known, and now Rogers site you can find a full description of its characteristics. In fact, the new simple and not especially different from the BlackBerry Curve 8520, the only significant difference can be regarded as support for cellular networks, third generation. The new version of the BlackBerry OS is number 6 device, apparently not received.

Only about a week left before the anticipated debut of the graphics card GeForce GTX 460, which should become the first model, NVIDIA, performed on the basis of the new 40 nm chip GF104. Interestingly, plans to release a similar product has not been confirmed yet by the Santa Clara, but the information about this video card has more than enough from outside sources. 

An expert from Digitimes Research said the company Nokia is already testing its new tablet. Its partners have already made about 100 engineering samples of this device for testing. Build the company does Foxconn. The analyst said that the new tablet is equipped with touch screen 7-inch or 9-inch, built on the ARM processor and running the operating system MeeGo. By the way, we have already mentioned in the news about the upcoming smartphone Nokia N9 based MeeGo, it is equipped with a touchscreen and sliding QWERTY keyboard. 

We have repeatedly mentioned in the news about the proposed development of Apple's version of the device iPhone, capable of working in CDMA networks, the U.S. mobile operator Verizon. Now, we recall, iPhone works in the United States only in relation to mobile services AT & T, which naturally reduces the scope of its consumption. 

U.S. operator Verizon Wireless has officially confirmed the existence of Android Smartphone Motorola Droid X. True, his announcement still to come (apparently, he held 23 June). Images of the new items appear on the site operator, it is placed next to other representatives of the series - Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Incredible and marked as "Coming Soon". Also at the site indicated some basic characteristics of Motorola Droid X, which can be identified as its main features. 

According to the resource DigiTimes citing sources in the environment of motherboard manufacturers, submitted in late April, six core processors AMD Phenom II X6 (Thuban) has become the deficit in the market. The reason, according to experts, has become overly cautious in placing orders for these chips. 

In the network have additional details about the two smartphones Motorola, which is now being prepared for release. These models are known as Motorola Droid X (Droid Shadow or Droid Xtreme) and Motorola Droid 2. Both of them will come from the U.S. operator Verizon.