I know you love a good fight: two or more opponents duking it out to determine the ultimate champion has engaged the human race since their very beginnings*. Well, like the gladiators of old, I have a video of just such a tourney.

PocketMobile have pitched the browsing experience on the only WinPho 7 handset to date — the LG Panther — against the iPhone 4 and a Froyo-powered Nexus One.

The results? Speed-wise, WinPho7 holds up its own, beating both the Nexus One and iPhone to a complete page load (although the Nexus One displayed some text on-screen before the other two) on the first test, but coming last on the other tests.

However, there is so little a difference between the phones on all the tests, that it’s not really a clear victory for any device.

Unless, of course, you think about the old IE on WinMo 6.5 (*shudder*)… in which case this is like a rocket-ninja-powered victory for WinPho 7, especially as this isn’t yet final software.

But enough from me, you can watch the epic 10-minute battle for yourself, below.

*I have no actual data to back this claim up.

[via Phone Arena]

Back in March of this year, Guiness opened up their big book o’ World Records to anyone willing to claim that they were the fastest touchscreen texter on the block. The first contender to step up to the plate was a gent named Franklin Page, who used Swype’s slide-to-type tech to blast out Guiness’ headache-inducing pre-set sentence in just 35.54 seconds. Surely by no coincidence, Page was a Swype employee.

Five months later, someone else has come forward for their shot at the heavyweight belt fancy plaque.

Aaaand sure enough, the record has a new owner. 27-year old Melissa Thompson — who, like Page, used Swype — was able to crank out the same pre-set sentence in just 25.94 seconds.

With a gap of 9.6 seconds (that’s around 28% faster), it seems like there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Think you’ve got the finger finesse to beat the clock? Find the test sentence below and get to practicing. (I couldn’t break 45 seconds on my iPhone. No world record for me, I suppose.)

The test sentence:

The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human

[Via IntoMobile]

Android has a delicious history of codenames for its release versions,
with each major release reading like a tasty children’s book:

C is for Cupcake (v1.5)
D is for Donut (v1.6)
E is for Éclair (v2.1)
F is for Froyo (v2.2)
G is for Gingerbread (v3.0)
H is for…

What is H going to stand for? Well, rumours are pointing to Honeycomb, that natural treat that makes bee hives so tasty to munch on.

Of course, even the features appearing in Gingerbread are still off in the distant lands of rumourville, so don’t expect any news on features for at least a month or two.

But hey, at least you can be happy in the knowledge that you know what dessert Android 3.x is best represented by, right?

[via BGR]

Making panoramas — good panoramas, you understand — is a pretty difficult process. You can slap one together pretty quickly but you’ll have stitches showing, exposure issues, and so on — you have to get a program like Hugin configured correctly and tweak it a lot before you can get something worth printing. But what if you don’t care, and the stitches are part of the fun? This app, “You Gotta See This!” seems to go down that route, knowing that “real” panoramas aren’t likely to happen on an iPhone.

What you do is start the thing up and just wave that iPhone around in a semi-controlled way; the app keeps track of orientation and motion using the accelerometer and gyroscope, and puts together a panorama by shooting on rapid fire. The end result is pleasantly broken, and unique in a way many pictures aren’t. Note that this is for iPhone 4 only!

It costs $2, and honestly if I had an iPhone I’d be buying it right now.

[via TUAW]

Hooo-ee! AT&T have clearly got high hopes for Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS reboot, Windows Phone 7.

Michael Gartenberg — technology columnist to the stars — tweeted out today that a trusted source told him that AT&T have signed up for eight million WP7 devices — which is approximately one million times more than the number of Kins sold.

To put that number in perspective, Apple moved about that many iPhones in the last quarter. Now, I can’t say how quickly AT&T expect to move those numbers, but they wouldn’t be expecting anything near the speed with which the iPhone sells. The point here is that AT&T have enough faith in the platform that they reckon they can move that much.

Of course, it it won’t be the networks that will decide the success of the platform; that part of the story lies in the hands of consumers and developers.

[via Slash Gear]

The feature we’re talking about is called “Touch Exposure”. While Apple’s camera app lets you touch-to-focus on a point, it bases the photo’s exposure off that same point. Unfortunately, that leads to a lot of dark — but sharply focused — pictures. With Camera+ you use one finger to pick the focus point, and then use a second finger to select the exposure point.

This build is also significantly faster than those prior, and comes with a flashlight mode to boot. For $1.99, I’d say grab it.