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We have teamed up with Blazing Applications to offer you a chance to win one of four promo codes for Miner Escape for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Miner Escape is an avalanche type game for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) developed by Blazing Applications. Miner Escape takes place in an underground cave and puts you in control of a trapped miner who is trying to avoid falling icicles, the more you avoid the better your score gets.

Porting Honeycomb (Android 3) to the various Android tablets out there is not an easy task given that the source code for Honeycomb is not available yet and that there are some driver or kernel issues but this didn’t stop spacemoose1 @ XDA who has managed to boot Honeycomb on a Samsung Galaxy Tab. The port is not fully working yet as you can expect but it gives us a taste of Honeycomb.

Switching between suspended apps in Windows Phone 7 can be laggy as the apps are dehydrated (status saved in internal storage) when suspended. When you go back to a suspended app the Windows Phone 7 OS has to retrieve the status from the internal storage and resume the application, this is what takes a bit of time. Jaxbot @ WindowsPhoneHacker found a registry hack which eliminates this lag.

If you read our article How To Root your HTC Thunderbolt a few days ago you know the HTC Thunderbolt has been rooted as soon as it has been available on Verizon. The rooting procedure is quite complex and dbzfanatic @ XDA released a Windows program which makes it easy to root the HTC Thunderbolt.

Bully Block is a new Android application developed by Spy Parent LLC which helps prevent cyberbullying. Bully Block provides many features to empower teenagers who are victim of cyberbullying, the app is in beta testing phase and will be available soon on the Android Market.

The HTC Thunderbolt is a brand new 4G smartphone on Verizon and while 4G can be great it does also decrease your battery life and may interfere with your 3G connection. Somehow Verizon and HTC did not include a widget to switch off 4G / LTE on the HTC Thunderbolt but as usual someone found a way to disable it.

A few days back we were telling you about a new application called FullHDMI (@ FullHDMI application for HTC EVO 4G) which allows you to connect your HTC EVO 4G to an external display using an HDMI cable. And now there is another app called HDMwIn from #teamwin which supports full HDMI mirroring on the HTC EVO. It gets even better as HDMwIn is now supported in the latest CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds.

The HTC Thunderbolt is basically the HTC EVO 4g or HTC Desire HD for Verizon, same screen size, same CPU and it supports 4G on Verizon LTE network. We knew the HTC Thunderbolt had been rooted for a while but the folks behind the root procedure were waiting for the device to be released prior to revealing how to root it. Well the HTC Thunderbolt is now out on Verizon and it is rooted!

webOS 1.x came with an emulator that was allowing you to run old PalmOS applications within the webOS framework. With the release of webOS 2, HP decided to get rid of this emulator but thanks arthurthornton @ PreCentral it is now possible to bring it back. This method uses files from both webOS 1.4.5 and webOS 2.0.1 to enable the classic PalmOS emulator.

The YouTube application created by HTC for their Windows Phone 7 devices has been extracted by Tom Hounsell and can now be installed on any Windows Phone 7 device. This is a great news as this is one of the best YouTube application for Windows Phone 7 devices. Grab it while you can!

Adobe just announced last week that they will release Flash 10.2 for Android on March 18th but it has already been leaked online. BBCrackman at MyDroidWorld received the file and then released the apk so any Android user can now install the latest Adobe Flash release on their device. This version of Flash works fine on Honeycomb, Gingerbread or Froyo devices.

There has been a sudden flood of new Android tablets in recent months, making it much more difficult to decide which you should buy. To help you pick out the best one to suit your needs let us look at the various contemporary options and compare them to the upcoming launches from big name manufacturers.

FullHDMI is an app created by orrebmas @ AndroidCentral which mirrors your HTC EVO 4G display onto an external display (HDTV for example) using the EVO HDMI port. Finally a good use for that HDMI port This application is currently in public beta but FullHDMI is stable enough if you feel adventurous.

eried @ XDA released a nice application which lets you browse the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace from your computer. Using Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for Windows PC you can search the marketplace and deploy apps directly to your Windows Phone 7 device. Version 1.6.3 was released recently and provides some enhancements and fixes.

The HTC Inspire 4G is the AT&T version of the HTC Desire HD, it comes with a great 4.3 inches screen, Android 2.2 and 4G capabilities. The device has been rooted and DOAlaboratories @ XDA released a custom kernel for Cyanogen Mod 7 which overclocks the HTC Inspire 4G to 1.8 GHz.

CyanogenMod 7 RC2 has just been released a couple of hours ago and it brings Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) to various devices like the HTC EVO 4G, HTC Desire HD etc. For those of you using the HTC EVO 4G it does include WiMAX which is a great achievement. Remember this is not yet considered a stable release even so many are reporting it does work well.

Many of the latest mobile devices are capable of being a Wi-Fi hotspot (aka Wireless tethering) but carriers force customers to buy extra options to enable it. Thanks to richhed @ XDA, it is now possible to enable this mobile hotspot feature on the Motorola Atrix 4G without paying extra. This is really handy as you can use your Motorola Atrix 4G connection anywhere with a Wi-Fi only tablet like the iPad or Motorola Xoom.

The Samsung Moment is officially stuck with Android 2.1 (Eclair) for the time being but thanks to the SDX Developers it is now possible to install Android 2.2 (Froyo) on it. The Samsung Moment is still a decent Android device and it is really encouraging to see the developer community not giving up on it. Maybe we’ll see Gingerbread on it!

The Motorola XOOM which was released this week (and already rooted) comes with the brand new Android Honeycomb boot animation. It is actually quite nice and tntdroid has been able to port this animation to the Motorola Droid X. Read more if you want to install it on your device.

The Motorola XOOM has been out for a few days and it has already been rooted (see @ How To Root Your Motorola XOOM) and now overclocked successfully to 1.5 GHz. Thanks to this overclock hack the Motorola XOOM CPU becomes much faster than any other tablets’ CPU including the iPad 2.

The Archos Internet Tablets (101, 70, 43, 32 and 28) are some of the best and most affordable Android tablets. While their screen isn’t as good as the Motorola XOOM screen, the sticker price is also not the same… Rooting the Archos 101 and others became even easier with the release of Archangel a one-click root utility for the Archos tablets.