RIM will slowly be adding credit card billing and carrier billing over the next few months, starting with ATT. Its also lowering the minimum price to 99 cents and $1.99 per app from a previously self-imposed limit of a much higher $2.99. Carrier billing is considered the best way to sell applications and other mobile content to wireless subscribers because it takes the least amount of work users don’t have to enter credit card numbers, or even a user name and password to a PayPal account.

The BlackBerry App World update will also improve usability. Updates include:

• The store will have new sections where users can easily see the Top 25 Free Apps, Top 25 Paid Apps and Top 25 Themes, as well as the Newest Apps and Recently Updated Apps.
• QR barcode scanning will be supported, allowing a QR code associated with an application from anywhere the web, print ads, brochures—to link to its corresponding download page.
• Users will have BlackBerry IDs that enable credit card payments and allow customers to seamlessly transfer their personal library of free and purchased apps when they switch to a new BlackBerry smartphone.

Remember the Dell Thunder and the other weather-themed droids that leaked in April? The Thunder even starred in a video. No, it's not official yet but it already has its first preview!

Engadget got their hands on a couple of Dell Thunder prototypes and managed to confirm some specs while raising questions about others. The units were far from production ready – one ran Android 1.6 Cupcake, the other 2.1 Eclair and the software had support for hardware that wasn’t present (e.g. an HDMI port).

And both Thunders had LCD screens rather than the AMOLEDs we were expecting. This could be just for the prototype (or is Dell feeling the AMOLED shortage too?). Anyway, one of the screens had the usual 480×800 WVGA resolution, though Engadget claim the other screen had a resolution possibly as high as 1280×768.

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Samsung has changes the Galaxy alphabet from S to U. The Samsung Galaxy U has 3.7 inches at the same WVGA resolution (the same size as the Beam, for the record) and includes a bunch of notable features like Bluetooth 3.0 support, 802.11n WiFi, 720p video capture. Its Price in Korea is 800,000 or ($683).

The Huge Company HP responded to a question about whether or not tablets (read: iPad) were hurting netbook sales. In reponse, HP publicly confirmed that a webOS Tablet is coming in the timeline we were expecting, saying they will release "a webOS-based product in Early 2011." Hearing that in an investor call is quite a bit nicer than hearing it was said in an HP all-hands meeting.

Typically Apple, the iPad camera connection kit was posted in their online store with only the bare minimum of information. I went ahead and bought one anyway and now that I have been using it for a week now, I am ready to pass on everything you may need to know about this little bit of hardware (plus some things you may never need).

The Apple iPad camera connection kit consists of a USB adapter and a SD card reader. They both allow you only to transfer data TO the iPad and not offload data FROM it. Another thing you may be interested to know is the accessory is not compatible with any iPhones generation, it only works for the iPad. No surprises so far, all that was to be expected.