The biggest craze in the world of smartphones this year is set to be the introduction of dual core processors with the world's first dual core handset, the LG Optimus 2X, already going on sale in Asian and European markets. Although beaten to the finish line in the United States by the Motorola Atrix 4G, the high powered LG smartphone is now coming to the United States in the form of the T-Mobile G2x which, as the name change would suggest, has had some slight modifications for the US market. However, aside from an increase in data connection speeds, these modifications are only slight and mean that US smartphone users will be able to enjoy the same great phone that is causing such a sensation elsewhere in the world.

Previously I covered how to get the famous Android Lock screen on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It really looks cool but the problem arises when you forget your lock pattern. There have been hundreds of such cases where you are locked out of your own iPod Touch because you forgot the lock pattern and there’s no simple way of uninstalling or removing the app.

LG seems to be having a lot of firsts in the mobile phone industry this year. They were the first phone manufacturer to announce a dual core smartphone in the form of the Optimus 2X, as well as the first to produce a 3D enabled tablet. LG have also extended this 3D technology to their smartphones with the latest LG Optimus 3D, which will be the first phone to come with 3D technology included.

The last couple of years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of 3D technology, largely due to Hollywood movie studios cracking down on movie piracy by offering something that the pirates cannot replicate. While many have seen the resurrection of 3D glasses at cinemas as little more than a gimmick, there is no denying that with recent technological improvements 3D has become hugely popular again. So much so that it is now migrating to other areas of the technological and entertainment world.

The next version of Google’s OS for mobile devices, Android version 3.0 codenamed “Honey comb” is not expected to be released in a tablet until later this year but Google , first accidently, uploaded a teaser video of the awesomeness of Android 3.0 on YouTube and quickly pulled it off but that small duration was enough for some to record the video. Google has now officially released the video and a small description of it’s Android 3.0 on it’s blog.

With the grand opening of Football World Cup 2010 hosted by South Africa, everyone has gone crazy about football. Even geeks. Google has launched a set of special search terms or should I say ‘search shortcuts’ for fans or anyone who want to fetch any kind of information regarding the World Cup without scanning through the search results. Just like looking up time on Google by simply searching ‘time in XYZ location’, you can now search schedule of the next 7 matches by simply searching ‘fifa worldcup schedule’ among other special shortcut terms.

So far, there were only a set of themes/templates available for your blog on Blogger and the worst of all was that those templates were not customizable in the true sense. All you could do was change the header image, font color and size besides a bunch of other small customizations. Now with the launch of Blogger Template Designer by Google itself, you can completely customize your template and give it a new look.

If you are a geek you would know that today’s 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the game developed by Namco and then ported on almost every kind of device imaginable. Google is celebrating the 30th year of Pac-Man not by putting up Pac-Man’s doodle as it usually does, but by replacing it’s logo from Google.com and putting in place the Pac-Man game itself. You can play it right away on Google’s main page.

Linux on iPhone has some really interesting updates: Work on porting Android OS to iPhone 3G is now almost complete and the release of the binaries and the procedure on how to port Android OS to your iPhone 3G will be available by next week hopefully.

Android 2.1 update has been rolled out for Droid Eris and many have already received the OTA update (Over the Air) but it seems like Verizon Wireless is serially sending out the OTA which means many users will have to wait for probably another couple of days if not weeks to get Android 2.1 running on their Eris. Not anymore. You can download and update to Android 2.1 manually.

Even though Verizon Wireless has started rolling out Android 2.1 OTA (Over The Air) updates to Droid Eris phones but still there are many who have not received any. Here’s the procedure to manually update your Droid Eris to a legit copy of Android 2.1 right from Google’s servers (it’s not pre-release or Beta, it’s the one that’s being used in OTA).

This seemed to be far fetched and some even laughed at the very thought of Google Android ever beating iPhone OS in the smart phone market but the reports of smart phone sales in the first quarter of 2010 reveal otherwise: Android based smart phones have outsold iPhone OS based iDevices combined.

Google mail users in UK will now be able to convert their @googlemail.com accounts to @gmail.com accounts, according to the official release from Google. The move is probably aimed at unifying the Gmail brand name. For those who do not remember, Gmail actually started off as Google Mail before switching to Gmail but it did not happen in UK up until now.

After a long wait and anticipation, DROID Eris will be getting a major firmware upgrade pointing towards Android 2.1 upgrade, Verizon Wireless has officially announced. According to the official announcement, the upgrade will be available “soon” which some anticipate could be by this month’s end.

After porting Google Android to iPhone 2G, David Wang, the same guy behind the Android port to iPhone project has now extended Android to run on iPhone 3G. He has released the video showing Android running on his iPhone 3G.