After the blurry, noisy image of the rumored Sony Ericsson Shakira we finally get to see it on a bunch of pretty nice looking shots. Apparently, the Android-running smartphone will actually be named XPERIA X8 but we’ll have to wait for its official announcement to see the full specs sheet of the device.

Meet the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8

While we still have no clue what the XPERIA X8 will come with on board we do know how it will look like. Now, forget about the low quality image of the X8, which leaked a week ago, and enjoy those his-res photos.

More Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 photos

XPERIA X8 will take the free spot right between the extra large Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 and the super tiny Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini. And as the images reveal, on top of the Android OS (version unknown) we’ll see an X10-mini-like UI. Sadly, we don’t know any other features of X8.

Three is the latest major UK carrier to announce that it will get the iPhone 4 at launch. Launching its pre-order campaign on 15 June and starting actual sales on 24 June, Three becomes the fifth UK operator to offer Apple’s latest mobile phone.

Meanwhile O2 announced that it will offer its subscribes an early upgrade if they go for the iPhone 4. You will be able to pay off the reminder of your contract and get an iPhone 4 on a new 18 or 24-month one (AT&T style).

O2 will charge you with 20 pounds for each of the remaining months of your contract, no matter how much you are really paying. That’s about 30% off the cheapest iPhone tariff. This way it will still be cheaper to pay off your contract and get a new one, instead of buying a SIM-free iPhone.

There is a catch of course - you will lose the change-of-mind period option. So once you’ve decided to go the iPhone 4 way, there is no turning back.

Well, well - Nokia N900 got MeeGo after all. We’ll probably never see it as an official firmware, but as of today MeeGo 1.0 is available for download and it runs on N900 as well as Atom-based netbooks. The next update, v1.1, is already scheduled - in other words, MeeGo has landed.

So Nokia won’t release MeeGo on the Nokia N900 commercially. That’s sort of OK though, because there’s a pretty strong community around the Nxxx devices and they’ve ran weirder things on their beloved Internet tablet/phone devices like KDE (a desktop Linux shell).

The handset release of the MeeGo 1.0 platform is still more developer-oriented - developing the user experience will start in June. New releases are planned to come out every six months - so, you can expect MeeGo 1.1 in October.

MeeGo is also available for netbooks - non-touch for now, but v1.1 will bring touch support to the netbook version. There’s some pretty positive feedback in the MeeGo blog as far as the netbook version is concerned - will Chrome OS arrive late to the netbook/tablet OS party?

Anyway, here’s the download link for the Nokia N900 MeeGo OS. If you give it a go, leave us a comment with your impressions.

You can add gyms as a good place to find unannounced phones - that’s where a Motorola Droid Shadow was found. The Android smartphone is the future successor of the Motorola Droid and possibly even the Google Nexus Two.

So far the Motorola Droid Shadow has appeared with Verizon branding and it will probably be an exclusive at launch. We of course expect to see a Motorola Milestone Shadow or something along those lines to appear at later stages.

The phone reportedly features a 4.3″ WVGA screen and an 8MP camera with 720p video recording. There should also be goodies like mini-HDMI port and 16GB (or 8GB depending on who you believe) internal memory.

Photos of the Motorola Droid Shadow found in the gym • The Shadow should have a QWERTY version too

The Motorola Droid Shadow supposedly has 512MB RAM and was first said to run on an OMAP 3630 CPU clocked at 720MHz. The Shadow uses Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI, but we don’t know what that means for a Froyo update.

Anyway, rumor has it that the Motorola Droid Shadow was found in a corporate Verizon gym in Washington. The device was soon remotely locked but the guy that found it, managed to confirm the screen specs, the 16GB internal storage and the camera. He also said that the CPU was a Snapdragon.

What was left unconfirmed however was whether or not the Motorola Droid Shadow has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Previous rumors said there will be two devices - a Motorola Droid 2 with QWERTY and Motorola Shadow without.

The Droid Shadow is expected to be released in June or July, so we should know more about it by then.