Torque Android Phones : Price, Specs, Features - Dual SIM, WiFi, TV

Local handset company, Torque Mobile, has just joined the Android smartphone race by releasing two 'Droidz' with dual SIM support and mobile TV functionality.

Check out Torque Droidz Dual --

and Torque Droidz Tandem --

The two phones share practically similar specifications save for screen size and design identity. Both handsets come with Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, 256MB ROM 256 MB RAM, mobile TV, Dual-SIM Dual-Standby capability, Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity support, dual cameras - 2 MegaPixel shooter with flash at the rear and a VGA one in front, G-sensor, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio and microSD card slot supporting up to 16GB. As for the screen, Torque Droidz Dual has a 3.2-inch HVGA Capacitive Touchscreen while Torque Torque Droidz Tandem flaunts a 3.5-inch display.

As regards pricing, iPhone4-look-alike Torque Droidz Tandem come with an SRP of Php 9,999 while probably-HTC-Tattoo-inspired Torque Droidz Dual sells for Php 7,999.

Torque Mobile hasn't sent us review units of these 'Droidz'. So as yet, we can't talk about their construction and overall quality.

Samsung Nexus S Philippines : Price, Specs, Globe Plans Availability

The phone comes FREE with Plan 2499, 3799, 5000 and 10000. Bundled with all Unli plans and Plan 299, it costs Php 21,307. With Plan 499, 999 and 1799, you can get it for Php 19,189, Php 13,071 and Php 7,204 respectively.
The distinguishing characteristic of Android 2.3-powered Samsung Nexus S aka Google Nexus Sis its unique Contour 4-inch SuperAMOLED Display with curved glass screen -- designed to kiss/hug the cheek nicely when you make a phone call. Other features include a 5 MegaPixel autofocus camera with flash, VGA front camera, 16GB of internal storage, WVGA 30fps videocamera, 3.5mm audio jack, microUSB port and Wifi, 3G and Bluetooth connectivity support. Oddly enough, it doesn't come with a microSD card slot for expanding the memory, CPU 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, Hummingbird chipset and 512MB RAM

140plus Tweak For Twitter for iPhone Lets you Send Tweets Over 140 Characters Long [Jailbreak Tweak]

140plus is a tweak for Twitter for iPhone which allows you to get around the annoying 140-character Twitter limit. Instead, you’ll be given the option to either shrink the tweet down to 140 characters or send it anyway. So how can you send a larger tweet? Read on.

Sadly, there’s no way to post long tweets directly on the service, since they’re simply not supported and don’t work with the service. This mod gets around that similarly to other services such as Twitlonger or Deck.ly, available on other clients, removing all excess characters and inserting a link to the full tweet instead. Unlike Twitlonger, tweets will be stored on Pastie.org service, which wasn’t specifically developed to to host tweets, but is able to do that job just fine.

This tweak requires you jailbreak your phone first, since this method isn’t approved by either Apple or Twitter. It’s recommended that you have basic skills on how to restore your device. If you’re not willing to jailbreak your phone or modify Twitter, you can always get another client that supports long tweets, such as TweetDeck for iPhone.

This mod was created by Moe Seth, who authored many other iPhone tweaks, such as Photector, which allows you to password-protect your pictures, in order to prevent them from being deleted, or just remove the option to delete them altogether; and TwitPlaying, which lets you tweet out the song currently playing on your device. Like many popular mods, 140plus is available on BigBoss, which is among the most popular Cydia repositories. The installation process is simple and no restart is required. You’ll simply have to re-launch Twitter for iPhone app to see the changes.

Be wary of updates to Twitter for iPhone, since they can and will most likely break this mod, or at least require users to re-apply it.