In Other News: 08/05/2013.

• It seems that Syria is back online today after a days worth of internet downtime. According to Syria's government-run news services the down time was due to fibre optic cables failing, but it's more likely that the government chose to shut off the internet as a way of silencing the people fighting for freedom from the Assad regime.
  Via BBC.

• Blackberry's first big update to their new operating system is live in some parts of the world. You can get BB10.1 on your Q10 right now if you're in Oman or the Philippines and we can expect a wider roll out soon!
  Via PhoneArena.

• Acer Russia have confirmed the launch date of the 8" Iconia W3 as the 4th of June!
  Via PhoneArena.

• Fusion-IO will have a new CEO and CMO after Flynn and White stepped down from their positions today to "pursue entrepreneurial investing activities" elsewhere!
  Via Engadget.

• Google Glass may not be shipping to customers until 2014, but the rumours that Google will launch a set of their own branded stores here and there which will sell purely Glass headsets. This is only a rumour at the moment, but it would make sense to put a pop-up store in a Best-Buy or something like that!
  Via AndroidBeat.

• There's a new game called Monster Burner available on Windows Phone 7 and 8 today! The game is free and it seems quite fun after a few minutes play, it's free anyway and you can get it here!
  Via @MajorNelson.

• Sharp are rumoured to start production of the next iPhone screens this July. We expect the resolution of the screens to be the same as they are currently, but there will probably be some better tech in there!
  Via Engadget.

• EVLeaks are at it again with the leak of the Nokia Asha 501, which you can see in the tweet below!

Nokia Asha 501, 2013 twitter.com/evleaks/status…
— @evleaks (@evleaks) May 8, 2013

• The guys at EVLeaks also believe that there are more colour options on the way for Motorola's handsets! Check out the Tweet below for full details!
   

Motorola DROID RAZR HD in blue, DROID RAZR M in blue, and DROID RAZR M employee edition, all for Verizon twitter.com/evleaks/status…
— @evleaks (@evleaks) May 7, 2013

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Is this an image of a new iPhone?

   When devices 'leak' then it's always slightly frustrating because we literally have no idea whether people have got it right or not and then if they didn't there's the chance they fabricated everything to make fools of some journalists. 

   With that in mind the image above is supposedly an iPhone 5S. We'd be surprised if that was the case because typically Apple has kept the same external design with the 'S' versions of their phones and just made the insides a lot better! But, there's some other things which make this rumour a little more credible. A couple of weeks back Apple submitted a patent application for a device which looks like this:

   GSMArena have speculated that the first image could just have been someone's render of the patent application just above or alternatively it could just be one of the test designs which Apple is playing with to mask the actual design of the phone which will be announced this year.

   What do you think does this sound plausible? Let us know in the comments below.
Via GSMArena.

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