If you like shaky, noisy, blurred video clips of questionable provenance that claim to be footage of some longed-for new gadget, then you’ll love the latest YouTube big-hitter – it’s said to be a sequence of the Android-powered HTC Dream in action.

In the 42-second burst an unseen emphysema sufferer twists and turns a device said to be an HTC Dream. Posted by someone calling themselves TheIncarcerator, no corroborating information is given to suggest that this is actually an HTC Dream. TheIncarcerator joined YouTube 11 months ago and posted just one video – this one. So, we’ll offer no more comment other than to say watch the video, which we’ve embedded after the cut, and draw your own conclusions.

More details have emerged on HP's new Mini Note line-up. As we reported last month, the PC giant is busily working on updates to best-selling UMPC and the latest indications that they will indeed use Intel's Atom chips rather than its current, underpowered VIA processor.

Digitimes reports that the new line-up will be here by October - the main hold up being an apparent shortage of 10in screens. The only other details are that there'll be a choice between traditional and SSD storage and a peculiar display resolution of 1024x576, which could be a typo. Who knows?

[Digitimes]

When Apple set up the app store it set an arbitrary $999.99 limit on the prices developers could charge for their software. It didn't, however, reckon on someone uploading a spoof "I Am Rich" app and charging customers the full $999.99 to be in on the joke.

For a dollar shy of a grand the "I Am Rich" app does little more than display a glowing red gem on the iPhone's screen. In a show of oppulence not seen since the launch of the first Vertu mobile phone, the apps author, Armin Heinrich, gives its description as: "The red icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this. It's a work of art with no hidden function at all." 

If you’re already in Beijing, have your iPhone to hand and can’t quite figure out if you’re about to watch the kayak slalom or synchronised swimming, here comes Google to the rescue. It’s just launched an iPhone-friendly version of its Translate service and Chinese is one of the many supported languages.

This won’t help much if you can’t actually read Sinitic languages, of course, but until Google launches a text-to-speech service, you’ll have to settle for holding up the iPhone screen and hoping for the best.

Asus first unveiled its ‘Ecobook’ laptop over a year ago, but while the idea for a bamboo-clad portable made from recyclable plastic and other eco-friendly materials was a great one, production problems with the all-bamboo shell meant that it didn’t get much past the prototype stage.

The idea of using eco-friendly materials for its products is one that Asus appears to be committed too though, and bamboo will make an appearance on one of its laptops scheduled for release later this year – the U6 Bamboo. More details, lots of images and our hands-on video after the cut.

Vodafone and 3 have both made murmurings about the Bold but it T-Mobile is the first network to get the prized BlackBerry.

It's named September as the month to go BlackBerry picking - beating off Vodafone who are committed to securing it "before November" and 3 who can only say it'll be available before the end of the year.

Business customers will be the first to get their hands on the HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and 2MP camera loaded handset and its lush 480 x 320 screen. There's only 1GB of storage on-board but there is that all important SD-card slot for boosting capacity by 8GB and beyond. More details after the cut.

The Boy Genius Report has turned up this admittedly grainy photo of a forthcoming Motorola phone that it reckons is the much rumoured 'Alexander' - supposedly Motorola's high-end, make-or-break,  great-white-hope mobile designed to rejuvenate its flagging sales, or bury the company for good.

While we agree that the mooted specs are high-end - Windows Mobile 6.1, a 5 to 8 megapixel camera, a dedicated NVIDIA GPU for 3D graphics and AGPS - we're not sure this is the phone Motorola will be pegging its future on. At least we hope it isn't.

Here's another bargain PC for your list - a 7in, 800x480 pixel, Wi-FI laptop from Maplin for a mere £169.99.

The 'minibook' sports a 360MHz (yes, that's Mega-hertz) XBurst processor, a 'mighty' 128MB of RAM and a whole 2GB (whoo!) of flash storage. And don't get any ideas of boosting that capacity by more than a few gigs - 4GD SD cards or USB sticks are the largest it will support.

It comes loaded with Linux plus Firefox, Xip office, a PDF viewer and an email client. It also has a cunning child-friendly mode for small hands to play with.

It does look an awful lot like the hard to get Elonex ONEt+, just with fewer colours to choose from. Still, at £170, it's not to be sniffed at. Click through for the full specs.

Here it is - the new "exquisite" (read "expensive") Asus Eee PC S101, and it's... brown.

Yeah, we know, still, that's 10in of pocketable PC you've got there, alongside a 1.6GHz Atom processor (same as the rest of the Eee line-up) and a generous 32 or 64GB of SSD storage. Asus CEO, Jerry Sean, revealed the new model by pulling it out of an envelope (where have we seen that before?).

The 32GB model will cost $699 and the 64GB model will set buyers in the US back $899. Hardly a MacBook Air rival but it's certainly competing on price.

[via T3]

If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll know that Apple has no compunction about removing programs from its App Store without warning or explanation. However, has Apple also engineered in an ability to make the iPhone in your pocket turn off any apps the company deems undesirable?

Jonathan Zdziarski thinks so. If you’ve not heard of Zdziarski then we’ll remind you that that he’s the clever chap who used his own ‘forensic toolkit’ to discover that Apple had been sending out refurbished iPhones that contained data from previous owners. Well, now he’s been picking apart latest (2.x) version of the iPhone OS – and his findings make for uncomfortable reading. More after the cut.