We have spotted pictures of the iphone app store that will available in the iPhone 2.0 software update, the App Store will allow for easy navigation of both paid and free apps; Featured, Just Added, Staff Favorites, Most Popular … it’s basically an iPhone version of Apple Downloads.

Developers will be able to sell their apps in the App Store, and can set their own price. They’ll receive a monthly payment of 70% of sales, with 30% going to Apple for their credit card, hosting and marketing services

Never get lost again with your Symbian UIQ smartphone. Google has finally released its Google Maps as a native application for Symbian UIQ smartphones. Point your Mobile Browser to www.google.com/gmm and take it from there. For more info , click here

The upcoming MOTOZINE ZN5 from Motorola ;

• Kodak 5 megapixel camera ,
• 3x optical zoom,
• 3.5 mm audio port,
• Montavista Linux 2.6.1 OS,
• Freescale SCM-A11 CPU,
• Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
• Mpeg4 playback
• Morph Keypad

Nokia N96 smartphone is based on the Symbian S60 3rd Edition operation system, with Feature Pack 2, this also has a DVB-H digital TV receiver and innovative kickstand for watching video on the handset’s beautiful 2.8″ QVGA display.

There are various connection options including quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and dual-band WCDMA (900/2100MHz). It also has WiFi support for HSDPA for high speed data connections. It has 16GB of internal flash memory and a memory card slot with support for cards up to 16GB mean you’ll never run out of space for photos, music, and games.

One of the another enchanting feature about Nokia N96 is its built-in GPS that works with the new Nokia Maps 2.0, which come preloaded on the N96.

Here is a few photos from the latest mobile-review’s review

The N96 isn’t going to take up much more room in your pocket than the N95 — it’s marginally bigger and slightly heavier. You get a very slightly larger display on the N96, 2.8 inches versus 2.6″ on the N95, but it’s still a QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) 16 million colour-capable LCD TFT.

The N96’s “video centre” allows access to Internet videos and can play back a wide variety of standard file formats, including Flash. Shooting videos is still at VGA (640×480) 30fps, just as the N95, and the camera is still a five megapixel with Carl-Zeiss lens and built-in flash . The N96 now gives access to Live TV, where DVB-H broadcasts are available.

There’s something about Transformer Concept Phones that brings out a boyish sense of wonderment, none more so that this flip happy design by Shkinder Maxim that is at once a cell phone, photo/video camera and 3D scanner.

Clearly ahead of its time in a commercial sense, the radical form factor allows multi-functionality following various swivels and flips.

In addition to the multi-facted functionality and flipping the phone features multimedia player and projector, great for the 3D scanner in theory allowing storage of 3D holograms.

When such technical marvels may be readied is anyones guess - its the waiting that hurts the most.

Adobe may have backpeddled from their earlier gung-ho claims of bringing Adobe Flash to the iPhone but luckily you dear reader can still enjoy Flash videos on your device from websites such as YouTube.

Want videos now? Watch the instructions below and soon you too can enjoy lolcats and bloopers, they shall not weary me…

Rumors are spreading again that the HTC Dream is hot favorite to be the first Google Android phone to market.

The tentatively titled ‘Dream’ is likely not one of the speculated figures above but is said to feature a full QWERTY keyboard (that proportedly “slides or swivels”), touch screen display and a 3″ by 5″ body. Beyond this details are sketchy and extend understand little beyond what had been broadcast by Forbes 5 months ago.

There’s no word yet on when the Dream will hit the market but word is Samsung are hot on their HTC’s search-querying heels.

For all his bluster yesterday, it seems Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has misjudged their ability to deliver Flash around the iPhone SDK’s multitude of restrictions.

One suspects a developer or two lent the CEO their thoughts as he took a more moderate tone today as to prospects of the client saying “…to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it.”

Will Apple give Adobe an access all areas pass? Will Adobe’s task prove too great? We love Flash, we love the iPhone but will the twain ever meet?

Having already rolled out their home screen search for S60 devices, Google has now invited WnMo users to the party.

The home screen search is claimed to be 40% faster and increase search volume by 20% with the plug-in allowing users to avoid initial steps such as finding and starting the browser and navigating to Google’s site to enter a query.

The plug-in has been enjoyed by BlackBerry users since December and S60 users for a month, so what are you waiting for HTC and O2 owners? Get searching.

Words like subprime, Bear Stearns and capital ‘R’ Recession are being whispered around the water cooler but there’s fresh reason to worry about consumer confidence in the US of A according to research from Changewave.

With little expectation of improved economic conditions, consumers look to be steeling themselves or a would-be recession with the biggest dip in confidence since 2002. Surveyed 18-25 year olds where investigated with regards to electronic gadgets and 19% of respondents indicated they would purchase more in the coming 90 days in comparison to 33% who would spend less, a huge blow for the retail and electronics sectors.

Among the 4,427 consumers surveyed in February the hardest hit products were LCD TV’s (down 4pts), digital cameras (down 4 pts) and cell phones (down 6pts).

Rocky times ahead for electronics manufacturers and distributors?