So the Nexus One is finally upon us! Google's best efforts with this astonishing super-phone have impressed the folks over-the-pond left right and center, but we're left wondering when are we brits getting a chunk of this Google goodness? Well ponder no more eager tech-heads!

Yahoo! News have reported an official statement from a Vodafone spokeswomen claiming they will offer the Nexus One "in Europe, starting soon in the UK, in a few short weeks". The news that Vodafone will be sporting the smartphone comes as a surprise to the UK phone market as the big G's previous phone, the G1, was launched exclusively on T-mobile, and Vodafone haven't proved to be the most popular network in recent years.

Flash back a decade to the year 2000, the Y2K bug was set to cause havoc in the world of tech. Devices were predicted to malfunction, cash machines shut down and computers to explode and destroy all of humanity! Ten years on and the panic of the day is almost laughable. Well, unless your a Windows Mobile user that is!

WMExperts are reporting that some Smartphones have been affected by a bug that set in late Thursday night causing messages sent after 1/1/2010 to be dated as received in 2016. WM users have been quick to address the issue with this temporary .cab fix which uses 'your device time instead of the SMS gateway server' to correctly display the date the message was received.

Although this problem has been been primarily reported by WM 6.1 and 6.5 users it may affect other similar devices in the same way.

Both the twittersphere and blogosphere alike have been on fire today with rumours of a new Google branded smartphone being out in the wild. The news came in the form of several Tweets from CNET reviewers and Google employees, claiming that 'the big G' had rolled out 'tons' of unlocked smartphones to it's staff for testing purposes. In true open-source open-thought style Google VP Product Manager Mario Queiroz was quick to fill in the details:

So as the Droid 'lands' in Europe, Britain prepares itself for the alien invasion! We batten down the hatches and lock up our daughters, ready for Motorola's ground breaking eruption of volcanic tech! Only to be utterly disappointed that the Droid has been renamed, the slightly less hardcore, Milestone.

Sorry chaps, no demonic forces at work behind this Smartphone. Just a perfectly all rounded, decent device. Don't get us wrong this is still one of the best phones Android has given birth to, but wheres the passion? Wheres the madness? Unfortunately not here Brits, better luck next time eh?

 

As the holidays commence iPhone gadgets are splattered throughout the blogosphere and let's be honest, they are all pretty much the same! Enter DLO Walldock for the iPhone!

This cute and simple plug-and-charge wall mount for the iPhone charges your favourite smartphone at a 'higher power' whilst seamlessly hovering in front of your mains power outlet. Okay so a clutter-free way to charge your phone for sure but perhaps not the most practical of phone mounts? Unless you like pinching and scrolling with your feet of course?

Nevertheless, we love it!

LG's beautifully acclaimed BL40 has been spotted online, specifically at Sina Corporation. The asian site has had a very brief hands-on with the product (thus the snapshots), but nothing new has been said about the device from what we can interprate.

This generation Chocolate is LG's 4th device in the 'black label' series and is already much anticipated for its smooth looking interface and 21:9 screen ratio! One of the only things we've had to go on is this promotional video from LG, showcasing the BL40's slick design and dabbling in software. 

According to a report on MobileToday.co.uk, Apple is to begin rolling out the iPhone on UK carriers Orange and T-Mobile as early as September! This comes at the end of a two-year exclusivity contract with O2, making the iPhone only available for a minimum £30pm contract or £450 handset on Pay & Go.

So as far as the tech scene goes in the Middle Kingdom, stuff hasn't been looking good lately! With the government censoring everything from gadgets to Google, the iPhone 3G was obviously not going to get away unscathed. 

Rumour alert! It's about time for the next-generation iPhone rumours to start rolling in, how about this one to start them off then?

 Although this particular source hasn't brought us anything before, we have looked east previously regarding spy shots of several different Apple products, nearly all to turn out to be the real deal! So if this user has got his facts straight we can be expecting the following in iPhone territory in june: