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The Philips GoGear gets the new look and new flavour of Android. The new GoGear has gone from white to black, lost its trackball in favour of specific touchscreen display, and exchanged Android 2.1 for Gingerbread. Its competition from Samsung, the device also has access to Android Market and all those apps that lesser PMPs lack. We can able to see some copper coloured buttons and speaker grill running along its right side to form a good design, but the overall fit and finish not to mention the lack of backlight for the screen demonstrated that it was not quite ready for primetime. Philips told it will be getting ready on September debut for the 8GB and 16GB versions(at $179 and to be determined price points respectively), and promised a 32GB version will follow later. For more read the press release

The VoIP provider Vonage offers unlimited calling to mobile phones in 42 countries. It looks like Vonage still have a couple tricks up its sleeve. The companys latest service plan, known as World Premium Unlimited, offers unlimited calling to mobile phones in 42 countries and landlines in 80 for $55 a month. This plan also offers unlimited local and long distance service in US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and requires callers to use touch tone phone, hooked up to the internet by the way of Vonage adapter to make calls to places like UK, Mexico and Brazil. For more read the Press release

Most of the specs of the BlackBerry PlayBook were well known ahead of todays release, but there is a confusion for some persons that it had a gyroscope or not. So the crew from iFixit opened the tablet, they gave the tablet reparability score 7 out of 10. Replacing the front glass would be a bit of a pain to do, but then thats the case with most portable devices. The motherboard has also got the examination, with power management, wireless connectivity, and memory chips getting identified and recorded posterity. Click on the source link from iFixit to see images.

T-Mobile has just announced its new Bobsled brand, and it is kicking things off in Facebook application that will let you make free voice calls to any of your friends around the World. Facebook is just the beginning of the brand. T-Mobile says Bobsled is aimed at bridging traditional telecommunications and Internet based voice and data services, and it says it planned to expand its service in future to include video chat, the ability to place VoIP calls to mobile and landline phones and even offer applications on both smartphones and tablets regardless of the carrier that powers such devices. We dont know how long it will take, but now you can try the free VoIP calls on the Facebook in the link given below

The Wall Street Journal just confirmed that Motorola Droid Bionic launch is delayed until summer, it might not be available for purchase until sometime. The reason for the delay, a Motorola Spokesperson says that the company is improving several enhancements to make this an even better consumer experience, based on feedback its received since the phone was announced way back at CES.

Today the BlackBerry came to the sale with the starting price of $500 for 16GB of storage. The wait for a dual-core device with an up to date operating system and stylizes BB logo is now over, a lot of stores in US and Canada are now ready to sell you the PlayBook. The basic productivity apps like native email and calendar are not yet available, Androids app compatibility hasnt been rolled out, and the PlayBook has an unfavourable dependency on having a BlackBerry smartphone with you to be the best tablet it can be. The RIMs ability to overcome those early software hurdles, the PlayBook is ready for ownership in exchange for $500 for 16GB model and $600 for 32GB model or $700 for 64GB model.

The new Galaxy Tab 10.1v has finally found itself in pre-order host over at Vodafone Australia, with select customers receiving newsletters shown in the picture. The exclusive offers enables Vodafone customers camped out in the Land Down Under to pre-order the Hoineycomb slate, with trio of payment options available. A two year agreement will cost you zilch upfront (but AU$39 a month over 12 months), a one year plan dings your credit card for AU$259, and off-contract the tablet is AU$729. Anyways about the price list the device will be shipping on May 1st. Dont forget to check the video

If you are looking for a straight forward and geeky Geiger counter, the Libelium gang has your back. En route to the Tokyo Hackerspace as we speak, the Radiation Sensor Board for Arduino is a low cost alternative to existing devices. It is available now either with a compatible Geiger tube for $135 or without for $50. Check the video after reading.

Nokias just launched beta version of Ovi Maps 3D. There is some little help from Navteqs maps and some software wizardry, its now able to display cities in a new 3D view that you are able to zoom in and around to your hearts content. You can also do the same thing on Google Earths 3D view too, but Nokia just might have a leg up in some respects. For more Read the Press Release. To download Nokia Ovi Maps 3D click on the download link.

Texas Instruments just unveiled its next generation, Qi-compliant wireless power receiver chip today. It is fully 80 percent smaller than previous chip. That promises to make it easier for manufacturers to implement in everything from cell phones to game consoles to digital cameras and that small size apparently comes without any compromises, with it providing 5W of output power and 93 percent peak efficiency. The complete bq51013 wireless power package is now already available for just $3.50. For more Read the Press Release.

Samsung told to Maeli Business Newspapaer that a high-ranking company official has disclosed Samsungs intention to deliver a dual-core smartphone that runs at a 2GHz. That is 2GHz for each core, not the specious 1GHz multiplied by two. ARM already has a dual-core Cortex A9 design capable of scaling such speed heights, which is probably on the basis on which Samsung is building its future processor on.

If you want a phone that got protection against water, and you like a slimmer phone means, NECs also got you the one. According to pamphlet obtained by datacider, the MEDIAS family soon will be welcoming a Gingerbread- powered NEC N-o6C, which is 0.2mm thickness and 10g weight. It got touch buttons instead of physical one. But we had check more on the IPX5 and IPX 7 waterproof ratings. Apart from 1GHz processor it got 14Mbps FOMA download speed, the rest it got are 4-inch 480*854 LCD, 1GB ROM, 512 MB RAM, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and 5MP camera with 720p video. There is no clear indication of release date. But we got the spec sheet.

A recent price drop brought its cost down to just $280, and hackers have even managed to overclock its processor to 1.4 GHz and get it running CyanogenMod7 to boot. Now Viewsonic has itself had given a boost to the tablet, with a new firmware update bringing support for both flash and USB peripherals. It can apparently also be used as a docking station.

In this weeks episode of Smallville, it looks like Tess Mercers got more than one hero in her life, but one of them only is running Windows Phone 7. Lois Lane calls to Tess Mercer, who appears to be packing a White HTC Hero and this Hero is a Microsoft man which was wondering ; what OS is superman running?