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Today Vodafone has announced the new BlackBerry Storm2, which can now be preordered with the shipping date set to October 26th. The offer is available as of today in the UK, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Spain -- France, Italy, and South Africa in time for Christmas. Visit the official page for more details.

Specs:

• 3.25" 360 x 480 capacitive SurePress (new and improved) touchscreen display;
• 802.

Shortly, this new functionality allows you to bring up on the screen all the application pages in your iPhone just by pressing Home button. Tap any of them, and you're there. Check out the video to get a better idea of how it works.

Motorola and Orange UK have recently released the Motorola Dext Android smartphone. The new handset features MOTOBLUR UI, and can sync contacts, posts, feeds, messages, e-mails, photos from social services like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo, your work e-mail and LastFM.

The DEXT is available for free to Orange customers in the UK who choose a 2-year contract with a £34.

Owners of Toshiba TG01 Windows Phones can now download the official Windows Mobile 6.5 software update directly from the company’s Europe site. The page is in German, but there's a link for the English version of the ROM.

T-Mobile has finally made its upcoming flagship BlackBerry Bold 2 (Onyx) 9700 official, and gave it a November launch date. Yeah, like that was a secret to anyone... The release confirmations for the U.S. and the rest of Europe are expected to follow shortly.

The latest OS 4.7.1.57 update for the BlackBerry Tour became available to general public at the BlackBerry Software Download site. Before you proceed, as always, don't forget to back up your data.

RIM has recently released the latest version of its BlackBerry Messenger client available to all devices. The new BlackBerry Messenger 5 offers support for avatars, group sharing, 2D barcodes and larger file transfers. The download is free of charge.

Just in case you haven't noticed, there's a new OS Update 3.1.2 available for iPhone (3G(S)) owners. The free update can be downloaded from iTunes, and resolves issues that caused iPhone to not wake from sleep, interrupting cellular network services until restart, and crashes during video streaming.

A corresponding update is also available for the iPod touch.

According to Engadget's recent report based on an official Windows Mobile 6.5 PR and an internal memo from AT&T, the new HTC Tilt 2, the carrier-branded Touch Pro2 is currently available to business customers and will bereleased for everyone starting October 18th.