Steve Jobs is currently on stage in California showing off the latest iteration of the top smartphone on the market; the iPhone.

The iPhone 4 (as they've imaginatively named it), takes the normal formula served up by Apple and improves upon it with a frame which is 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS, along with glass on the front and back (the black surface on the back is also made of it).

The aluminium band around the side of the device is actually the antenna, which means that the design on the front and back remains unspoiled, and it should offer a larger surface area.

You've also got a screen with 4x the pixel density, and a lot more features still being announced.

Update 1: Video is coming to the device. 720p HD at 30fps, with the LED flash (oh yes, they've finally added on) staying on in low-light conditions throughout filming. There's also going to be iMovie for iPhone which will allow on-the-fly editing of videos.
Looks pretty slick.

Update 2: They're also renaming the iPhone OS4 to iOS 4, simplified with the handful of devices now running it.

Check out the gdgt Live Blog to keep abreast of the latest news from the conference.

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As you may know, we're huge fans of the diminutive Flip pocket-cameras here at RandomlyAccessed, and when the company announced that they were updating the MinoHD with a larger screen and more storage, we jumped at the chance to test it.

Question is; was it worth our excitement?

Click the title to read on and find out.

When Steve Jobs took to the stage in late February and announced the iPad, discussion was all about whether users would "get" the idea of a large iPod Touch to consume media.

Well, it appears that users have "got" it. In pretty staggering numbers. The company from Cupertino has shifted 2m units of their slate device in under 60 days since launching in the States, and only a few since it was offered up internationally.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

There are now 5000 specific apps in the App Store for the iPad, underlining how seriously developers and consumers are taking it.

Seesmic is one of the largest figures in the Twitter application space, and has recently been diversifying to keep away from the microblogging company's increasing involvement in the space, by ensuring it caters for all of the social networking space.

Well, they just released their first iPhone app which allows you to hook into all of the networks like you'd expect in the desktop variant. With options like Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm (which allows content-pushing to over 50 other networks), the company is really pushing the cross-compatibility of the product.

They've also made it really easy to switch between accounts which is handy for those who like to segment their experience (like us) and cater to different sets of people.

This comes hot on the heels of Twitter releasing their official application (which is essentially Tweetie 3.0), but it seems that Seesmic holds a few more features if you're already well planted in the ecosystem.

It's in the App Store now.

[Seesmic for iPhone]

Spotify has just announced that they're going to be offering two new plans which slot in between their current offerings; Free and the £9.99 Premium.

The two new plans are Open and Unlimited, with the former giving you access to the music streaming service (supported by ads) for 20 hours per month (they say it's equivalent to 25 albums or 300 tracks every month) without the need for an invitation which is the case with the non-time-restricted Free version.

Spotify Unlimited gives you a similar experience to the Premium version, but only for the Desktop client (wont give you access to the superb iPhone, Android, Symbian and other clients), and wont give you offline playback on your PC - but it does cut the cost in half to only £4.99pcm.

This comes hot on the heels of the company releasing their new, socially-infused, client a few weeks back.

[Spotify Packages]

TweetDeck, one of the most popular Desktop and iPhone/iPad clients for Twitter, has just announced that they're going to be developing an HTML5 web-based client which will mean that anyone with any kind of web-enabled phone will be able to get a consistent experience when using the client on their device of choice.

They also confirmed that they are looking an avenues on Android (they tease that they'll reveal more on that soon), but it seems that for all of the other platforms (BlackBerry, webOS, Linux etc...) they're going to be focussed on the new mobile-web variant in order to provide consistent support and upgrades across all of the (now fragmented) mobile space.

TweetDeck Mobile Web is also geared to work on really slimmed-down devices, so there'll be no processor problems when viewing it from the new featurephone-meets-smartphone market. Testing begins shortly, and with the pace of web-development, we should see it launch quickly with a furious update schedule.

[TweetDeck Blog]

Microsoft and Lionhead have just released images of the packshot for the upcoming action-RPG game Fable 3, which seemingly confirms the existence of a PC version of the game.

In the top bar of the shot, it says "Only on Xbox 360 and Windows", seemingly proving the existence of a desktop compatriot to the, up to now, console-only franchise.

We'll keep you in the loop and see whether it was a typo or a mistaken announcement of a game a lot of PC users will enjoy.

Click the title to see the larger packshot.

via MCV