Tuesday saw the event that Apple fans around the world have been waiting for: the launch of the next generation iPhone, the Apple iPhone 4S. With its upgraded dual-core processor, improved camera and the all new and exclusive ‘Siri’ voice control system, the Apple iPhone 4S is all set to be the next big thing.

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When you’ve picked your answer, share the competition on Facebook or Twitter and then submit your email address so they can contact you if you win. Best of luck, everyone, and let us know your answers in the comments below!

Screen – 75%

There is we would imagine a 75 per cent chance that the new iPhone will have a new larger screen. This screen is more than likely to be set between 3.7 and 4 inches in width. This would be a relatively substantial increase and shows the way that phones are going regarding the increase in screen size. Also, expect an increase in resolution size to counter the increase in screen size and ensure a retina display remains the proviso of the iPhone 5.

Chip 90%

The likelihood of the iPhone 5 using the A5 processor that the iPad 2 uses is very high. Firstly most of the technology available in the larger screen is easily transferrable to the phone. Secondly, most of the current premium Android devices are suing the dual core chips, which would mean Apple, would be left behind if it did not. The chip would greatly speed up processing power and probably also come with a near doubling of RAM to 1GB which would also aid speed and ensure Apple was up to pace.

iOS 5 95%

We also can’t wait for the new operating system iOS 5 to be included on the device. The new operating system has an array of new features, a large amount of which are borrowed fr the Android and others which are just sensible for iPhone users, such as iMessages, ensuring you can only talk to people who deserve your company – fellow iPhone users.

Camera – 70%

After doing our complex probability calculations we come up with 70 per cent as the likelihood for a new 8mp camera on the device that is capable of taking 1080p images. This new camera would bring the device up to speed with the industry standard for phones on premium plans and ensure the iPhone is up with the Android kids on the block.

Obviously the percentages are just plucked from a dark place in the brain; however do expect the iPhone 5 to conquer upon its release.

Normally we would not be covering technology news happening in foreign lands unless they directly related to us. However we are making an exception for this. As many might be aware of, Samsung recently trimmed the fat from its upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the tablet owns the record for the world’s lightest and slimmest tablet.

Well said tablet went up for pre order on the 19th of April and shipping May 1st in the land down under. Of course Vodofone has operations here in the UK so this could only mean that someway somehow the Galaxy Tab 10.1v will be making an appearance on UK shores in the near future. As to when we are not sure but we would guess between now and the end of June.

Just continue to save those pounds as needed. This one will cost the same as an iPad 2.

For those not familiar with the architecture that most mobile devices use these days, this might sound like Spanish, but bear with us we will explain. Apple’s iPhone, Android smartphones, Symbian and BlackBerry smartphones all have one thing in common: they run on ARM powered chips. These low powered chips are also being used to power tablets such as the Motorola Xoom, Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab as well as others.

Microsoft has yet to make a formal announcement concerning its position concerning mobile devices except for phones and laptops. But rumor has it that a variant of Windows 8 will be built for tablets. The key to this working is for Windows to run on the same architecture that most other manufactures and OEM’s use to power their devices.

At the company’s annual MIX event, Microsoft showed the next version of their operating system running on ARM. What does this mean? An iPad, XOOM and Galaxy Tab challenger from Microsoft, unfortunately we did not have a preview of the UI, but at least the underlining software code works, now for a tablet friendly skin and thousands of Windows apps will be in the palm of your hand on your next Windows tablet.

Another day, another HTC device is unveiled. This time it is the HTC Sensation which had previously been known as the Pyramid, its codename.

While the device is yet to get an official unveiling, which could happen at HTC’s April 12th event, it does sport some decent specs such as Android 2.3 Gingerbread to bot, a 1.2GHz dual core Snapdragon processor, 768MB of RAM along with a 4.3 inch QHD resolution display and 8MP for its main camera along with a VGA front facing one for video calls.

On top of the Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread software is HTC Sense 3.0. While it has not changed drastically since the previous version, there are some nice features included an updated home screen, a more visually interesting media player and a load of bug fixes on both the underlining Android software and the Sense UI overlay.

Our guess is as good as yours as to when HTC might consider releasing such a phone but as we said before, if we had a guess it would be at the company’s April 12th event and by the looks of the photos for the event, it could definitely be a sensation, corny we know, but you get the point.

Source: Cnet

It’s hard to imagine that just a few months and weeks ago HTC was responsible for unveiling some of the most anticipated devices of the year. The company has been on a roll of recently and with strong showings for the past two years at CES, MWC and CTIA in the United States the company has been sitting on top of a successful portfolio of devices.

As you might recall, just weeks ago the company unveiled the successor to the Sprint branded HTC Evo in the United States. Said device which will be dubbed the HTC EVO 3D will of course sport 3D among many other features. Well, thanks to an announced conference for the 12th of this month, it seems that those of us residing in the U.K could be getting a taste of Evo flavor as well.

The event is scheduled for April 12th as stated earlier in London Town and stars at 1:30PM. The invitation materials do not give any sort of hint as to what it could be with HTC just going as far to say “Join us to see what’s next.”

So why would we think that HTC could be announcing the HTC Evo 3D for the UK and most naturally the rest of Europe? Well thanks to one of the company’s official Twitter pages, they did confirm that an HTC Evo 3D would be coming to the UK and by the looks of things, it’s about time that HTC had a 3D boasting cellphone to compete with the likes of LG’s Optimus 3D and other 3D enabled devices.

Seeing that the 12th is a matter of days away, we don’t have long to wait, that said, don’t be surprised if HTC decides to pull out a 4G-less Evo 3D out of their hat on the 12th.

Source: Cnet

We’ve been hearing quite a bit of talk about the iPhone 5. Recently rumors surfaced that not only will the phone not carry NFC support, but that the much speculated release date of June-July during the World Wide Developers Conference is not true and instead Apple would be pushing the release back into the holiday season of this year as it has been noticing a steady decline in its iPod line as iPad’s, iPod Touch’s and the iPhone have overtaken the company’s original iPod line in sales revenue.

Again we are hearing another set of rumors, this time involving the cameras on the rear of the device. Needless to say, Apple has been pushing photo and video capture in their devices as of recently and with iMovie already released for the iPad it should not come as a surprise that the next generation iPhone could receive some sort of spec bump in the camera department.

According to sources, that spec bump will come in the form of dual 3D cameras. What would make someone come to such a conclusion? Well the boys over at AppleInsider have unearthed the patent filings for some sort of “deterministic calculation for stereo disparity compensation.” Big terms we know, but basically this translates into some sort of device capable of shooting 3D video footage which would obviously require some sort of dual camera set up.

This patent dates back to 2009 so it’s not exactly recent and Apple has been known to file hundreds of patents, many of which never ever see the light of day. So this could be just another patent Apple is trying to secure just in case the need arises. However with the push of 3D by so many other major players in the mobile device industry, we would not be surprised if dual 3D cameras showed up on a future version of the iPhone.

Source: AppleInsider

Not long ago a roadmap of BlackBerry’s devices for the remainder of this year including the first half of next year was released. Within that set of leaked presentation slides which were filed as confidential were a slew of touchscreen devices including a Storm 3 and one codenamed Monaco which we understand has an official name: BlackBerry Touch.

In mid-February said device showed up in Verizon’s red branding which suggested that not only would Verizon receive such a device in the states but perhaps Vodofone here in the U.K. Thanks to BGR which was now been able to release prototype photos of said device, we have a better idea of what the phone will look like.

Thanks to a publication obtained by the same dudes over at BGR, the device should become official in May at RIM’s annual BlackBerry World event. Said device will run BlackBerry O.S 6.1 and will sport an LCD screen with a pixel count of 800 x 480. The device is said to use BlackBerry ID instead of a PIN for many of the phones key functions. Furthermore, according to BGR, the phone will not receive the Storm 3 nomenclature which would kind of make sense seeing that the company is trying to rebrand itself as more touch friendly and the last two storm devices were not exactly the most touch friendly devices thanks in no major part to the hardware but rather the O.S.

So far from the photos the OS does look like a solid upgrade and the U.I looks a lot better and more visually interesting than previous versions of BlackBerry O.S. We’re not about to jump to conclusions but with BlackBerry’s growth within the past quarters despite the competition posed by Android and iOS we think that the O.S will be around for quite some time now, unless they pull a Nokia on us.

Source: BGM

Of course there will be much speculation as to why Google would pull the Android Market App known as PSX4Droid. According to the applications creator ZodTTD, Google informed him that the reason the app was being pulled was because of “Content Policy violation.” More intriguing is the general statement Google sent out regarding the entire debacle: “We remove apps from Android Market that violate our policies.” What we would like to know is how come it took the company over eight months for them to take action about such a popular emulator. We’re pretty sure that they have gotten one too many requests from content providers to pull the offending emulator. Could the removal of the app coincide with the recent launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and its PlayStation network which is promising to bring many new applications and games to the Android Marketplace?

It’s easy to point fingers at Sony or Google getting cozy in bed and while many would like to speculate that Sony did have something to do with the removal of the app, others have pointed out that FPSe is still available in the Marketplace (at least at the time of this writing). So why no love for one and plenty of love for the other? It could be for a multitude of reasons including the fact that PSX4Droid is based off source from another emulator called PCSX which is released under the GPL license. PSX4Droid is not and it could be that this is a similar situation like the VLC media player app being pulled from the Apple App Store thanks to conflict of open source licensing.

In either case, courts have ruled that emulators do not actually break laws because they only provide a service even though they are mainly used to break copyright laws, much the same thing with P2P networks such as BitTorrent, LimeWire and others.