To confirm earlier news that the BlackBerry Storm would arrive in Australia on Vodafone, the telco put up a page dedicated to RIM’s first full-faced touch screen handset.

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Vodafone already has an existing 3G network that’s also partially-owned by Optus. That’s only 63% of the telco’s intended total network coverage though. The plan was to get the rest of the network ready by Christmas, but it will take a few more months before it rolls out.

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Firefox’s mobile browser is truly a figment of people’s overactive imagination no more. After last week’s announcement that we’ll see an alpha real soon comes a few screenshots to prove that Mozilla’s CEO wasn’t just rattling off some tentative dates to appease impatient fans.

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Media players and web browsers in the form of eyewear, showing images superimposed with real landscape are no longer figments of human imagination. In Japan, Nikon has recently introduced its UP300x and UP300 head-mounted display (HMD) which can do everything I had just mentioned.

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The new version of RIM developer tools and simulators for the company’s newest products—the Bold, the Storm, and the Pearl Flip—are now available. The BlackBerry Java Development Environment v4.7 can now be downloaded from the official BlackBerry website.

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It’s only obvious after a series of leaked information including slides of a PowerPoint presentation and more recently, a promotional video, that the BlackBerry Storm would be officially out soon. Vodafone UK already put up a page dedicated to RIM’s touch screen device.

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Last June, the Firefox Mobile browser codenamed “Fennec” was only a concept Mozilla is working on. Rumors came out that the target release date is 2010, but it was debunked later afterwards. A recent interview with Mozilla CEO revealed that we’ll be seeing the Firefox Mobile real soon though.

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If the “leaked” PowerPoint presentation and additional details about the Storm and the BlackBerry Application Center (meant for the Storm) isn’t enough to convince you of the phone’s impending, err, release, then maybe this will.

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Here’s a price cut that’s sure to make travel-loving, extroverted geeks happy (don’t we all get happy with any kind of price cut?). Vodafone is offering its mobile broadband plans for lower rates so mobile computing just got a lot cheaper in Australia.

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There are so many feature-rich phones these days that it’s hard to decide which one to get. A tactic used by companies to sell is to encourage the development of application native to their device so that people would be encouraged to buy them. The perfect example would be, of course, Apple’s iPhone App Store.

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