Windows Phone 7 Series is next generation of Windows phones which was announced by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the Mobile World Congress 2010 last month. Windows Phone 7 Series basically refers to all those Windows phones which are powered by Windows Phone OS 7.0. Microsoft announced developer tools for Windows Phone 7 series at MIX 2010 last week. You can create Windows Phone apps by using these developers tools whos CTP works with Visual Studio 2010 RC.

Dvorak layout of a keyboard was originally designed to improve the typical QWERTY style keyboards by studying the frequencies of letters and the physiology of people’s hands. In Dvorak keyboard, keys are arranged to avoid mechanical jams and while typing. Tuaw is reporting that the new iPhone OS 3.2 SDK Beta 5 which was released by Apple on Tuesday, have got the option to select Dvorak hardware keyboard in the General tab of iPad settings. Still there is no option to select Dvorak as a software keyboard.

Earlier, we shared that a Chronic Dev Team is working on a tool named GreenPoison to jailbreak iPad OS 3.2. As the team is asking for donations prior to software/tool release, so there are thought/rumors about this tool being a fake like Gull1hack, but to clear any ambiguities regarding GreenPois0n, the developer of the tool (p0sixninja) has posted a detailed post to prove the legitimacy of GreenPois0n. According to them, they found an exploit in the latest iPhone 3.1.3 firmware which will be able to unlock and jailbreak iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), and iPod touch 3G untethered, they didn’t release much details other than justifications about their work and their need for an iPad.

HTC Touch Viva is a Quad Band smartphone by HTC powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with a 2.8 inch highly sensitive flat touch screen. The device is equipped with Next Generation Touch Flow 3D navigation which allows you to enjoy smooth 3D controls on its touch screen. HTC Touch Viva has Wifi and a 2 MP camera with fixed focus. Moreover it has a superb built in email client which enables you to send, receive and store emails plus it provides you with talk time of 8 hours (270 hours of standby time). Its built in GPRS and EDGE allows you to experience high speed data transfer rates. Viva provides you with the facility to view all important document formats including Microsoft document formats.

Apple iPad is an OS X Mobile based tablet where as HP Slate is a Windows 7 powered tablet from HP. HP Slate is yet to be released sometime this year with a support for Adobe Flash and Air. Three dominating features of HP Slate over iPad are its support for multitasking, Flash and camera. Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad don’t offer support for multitasking and Flash. If you want to enjoy multitasking on iPad, you have to first Jailbreak iPad OS 3.2. Here is a comparison chart between iPad and HP Slate covering all important hardware and software aspects of both devices.

Uman Donkey, a graphic designer from UK, have created a concept design for a tablet powered by Windows Phone OS 7.0. The tablet have 8 inch capacitive touch screen with 2 web cams for 3D video calling. An inbuilt stand with an integrated keyboard makes it the design more appealing! We have also shared similar kind of concept design for Chrome OS Tablet, a tablet from Google which will be powered by equipped with Chrome OS most probably.

Apple has started shipping iPad, arrival of tools for jailbreaking iPad is eminent but surprisingly a tool named GreenPois0n to jailbreak iPad OS 3.2 has already been announced by Chronic Dev Team member “p0sixninja”. These folks are asking for donations to buy an iPad and support their hacking struggles. To add legitimacy to their claim, they have released few screenshot of GreenPoison iPad 3.2 jailbreak tool.

Last week Apple gave a surprise to its fans by giving replace warranty over iPad’s dead battery, that is Apple will give you a new iPad if your battery is not holding any charge. This time its not a good news for those who have pre-ordered the newly announced iPad on March 12 as Apple have delayed some of the branded iPad accessories. iPad keyboard dock which was scheduled for shipment in late April will now ship sometime in May. Same is the case for iPad’s case. It will now ship in mid April instead of 3rd April, the original shipment date.

Today, Microsoft Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch unveiled Internet Explorer 9 platform preview build to developers at MIX10, IE9 would be successor to IE8. There is whole set of new features included in IE9, it will support new web technologies like HTML5 and GPU-based hardware acceleration.

PwnageTool is a very famous tool created by iPhone Dev-Team which is used for jailbreaking and unlocking various iPhone firmwares. Unfortunately PwnageTool is only available for Mac OS X users. As a Windows user, in order to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone / iPod Touch you have to download custom IPSW files which is created on Mac with the same PwnageTool. All you have to do is to restore the custom firmware on your iPhone using iTunes which allows you to maintain your iPhone baseband and downgrade firmware anytime. Here are working download links for all custom IPSW files for every firmware released by Apple for iPhone / iPod Touch.