Motorola DROID 3 has gone from a leak to a confirmed smartphone, but here is a damper – the smartphone will have a locked bootloader, at least according to forums manager Matt on the Motorola Support Forums earlier this morning. According to Motorola, the company will be rolling out software updates which are able to unlock bootloaders sometime later this year, so we guess you can forget about a summer rollout and enjoy doing some other stuff while waiting.

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Moles, or photo ninjas as I prefer to call them, tend to exist in many companies these days. These are the quiet, unassuming folk who do a commendable job at the office, and no one would have thought that they are the ones who actually snap photos of upcoming devices on the quiet, most of the time resulting in blurry images simply because they have to do it fast, and their handset’s camera is unable to focus fast enough. We know that a quartet of 1GHz Symbian-powered handsets are on their way from Nokia, and here is a leaked photo of one of them – the Nokia 700 Zeta, which continues where the previous leak left off, albeit in a much clearer format.

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2011 looks like the year of the “plus”. While Google has the recently launched Google+ social network, an analyst recently told the International Business Times that Apple might be releasing an iPad 2 refresh later this year, dubbed the “iPad 2 plus”. This new iPad 2 is said to have a higher resolution display (250-300 ppi), an improvement over the iPad 2′s 132-ppi resolution.

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Panasonic has announced today the SV-ME970 series which essentially is a new portable 7-inch 1Seg TV that is said to come with an IPX6/IPX7 certified body, which means that it is waterproof. The device reportedly features a new and improved UI that will allow you to use the SV-ME970 not only as a television, but also as a tablet that can be used for surfing the internet, thanks to a dedicated browser that has been built into the device.

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Sony Ericsson txt pro CK15a, an entry-level smartphone that will have a sliding QWERTY keyboard in the landscape format. This would make it a whole lot easier to compose your text messages or even modifying documents on the go, without having to frustrate yourself with the virtual keyboard. Since this is centrally a messaging phone, it will also sport support for Gmail, Google Talk, Twitter, Facebook and txt apps.

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HTC’s latest superphone for the year, the HTC Sensation 4G as it is known on T-Mobile, will also be arriving on AT&T albeit in an unofficial manner, sporting 4G connectivity on that network as well. Just to keep you up to speed, what does the HTC Sensation bring to the table? We are looking at a new dual-core 1.2GHz processor from Qualcomm complete with 768MB RAM, in addition to a spacious 4.3″ qHD display.

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Word on the street has it that Taiwan-based component manufacturers will kick their PlayStation 4 (PS4) production for Sony at the end of this year. Hmmm, this sounds suspiciously like a rumor, since we know that coming out with a new console is going to cost a lot, and the current PS3 is still going strong, and has not even completed the so-called 10 year life cycle as predicted. It is also stated that the upcoming PS4 will boast of body movement-based control which is not too different from that of the Kinect, waiting in the wings to launch next year.

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