BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 Unofficial OS 6.0.0.524 Available

There always seems to be quite a few OS leaks when it comes to the BlackBerry smartphone platform, and we haven’t covered one in a while so we though we’d bring the latest unofficial BlackBerry OS 6 leak to your attention today.

According to the guys over at Crackberry, by way of Bbh-plus, the latest release is OS 6.0.0.524 and is for the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330, and there isn’t anything known about what the new OS may contain feature wise so far.

Obviously OS 6.0.0.524 for the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 is unofficial so if Curve 3G 9330 owners download and install they do so at their own risk, but if you do then feel free to share what OS 6.0.0.524 delivers in our comments area below.

Our usual disclaimer, as this OS is not an official BlackBerry OS release from research In Motion or BlackBerry carrier the risk associated with downloading and installing is down to the user, and it may be in your best interest to wait for an official version release.

iPhone 5 may be announced this June after all, or not

June and Apple's WWDC is coming, but still there are no rumors on the iPhone 5. Yesterday two independent reports indicated the iPhone 5 will be launched at the end of June and the opposite thing - it will not launch until September.
According to the South Korean news outlet ETNews.co.kr Apple will announce the iPhone 5 during the upcoming WWDC and will release it as usual by the end June simultaneously in many countries including South Korea (SK and TK).

The Loop, on the other hand, claims it has its sources who are still keen that there will be no iPhone 5 announcement at the WWDC. They insist it will be released in September instead.

Previous rumors have it that the iPhone 5 will have a dual core A5 chipset, an 8 megapixel camera, bigger internal storage (and screen eventually), NFC support and even a metal casing. We guess we'll only know for sure this June.

Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II dual-core CPU will run at 1.2 GHz

The Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II is a pretty powerful beast as it is with its Exynos chipset featuring a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and Mali 400 GPU. However Samsung obviously decided 1GHz is not good enough for their flagship so they are adding even more oomph to it.

The company's Estonian office has just confirmed through their Facebook page that the two CPU cores will be running at 1.2 GHz, rather than the previously announced 1GHz. That update brings the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II to the top of the Cortex-A9 class, in pure computing power, at least.

It's a surprising move, we admit. We've never seen processor specs jump midway from announcement to release but that's obviously the case, The Galaxy S II official microsite no longer lists the exact technical specs of the CPU, so we can only assume something's cooking there for real.

Update: We just got a further confirmation from an internal source that the Galaxy S II CPU has indeed been updated to 1.2GHz.

What we don't know yet is how this new chip compares to the new Qualcomm Snapdragons, featuring 1.4 GHz dual-core Scorpion CPUs. We guess we'll see about that in a couple of months time when the Galaxy S II and the HTC EVO 3D will both be finalized.

It should be pretty obvious by now that 2011 is going to be as good a year for Android fans as 2010.

Nokia to Release 40 New Devices In 2011

Nokia N8
It would appear that Nokia shouldn’t be counted as out for the count when it comes to the mobile space, as the word is Nokia is aiming to launch a bundle of devices this year in a bid to regain their dominance of the smartphone arena.

According to an article over on Tech2 and by way of Hindustan Times, Nokia is looking to launch 40 new devices this year with 12 of those devices being smartphones. Apparently a Nokia exec close to the development has said… “We will be launching 40 models in 2011 of which at least 30% would be smartphones.”

Nokia has recently seen hard competition from the likes of BlackBerry and the iPhone, and a recent report by IDC claims that Nokia market share in India has fallen, although Nokia disagrees.

According to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, IDC claims that Android is the most favourable with the masses, which is followed by BlackBerry, Apple’s iOS, then Symbian and Windows Phone 7, although again Nokia disagrees with the figures.

Personally it doesn’t surprise me that Android is tops and Symbian is way behind, but with the ever changing landscape of the smartphone arena what OS is tops today can quickly change, although I would say Nokia has a way to go to get anywhere near that top slot.