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A look at some of the handsets and mobile phones news making the headlines during February 2010.

According to Palm, Verizon customers who own a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus can now update to webOS 1.4. The update is being delivered over the air to handsets.

Appear at Engadget’s The Engadget Show, Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman is showing an unannounced LG prototype smartphone with the new Windows Phone 7 Series. The LG prototype has a 4-rows QWERTY hardware keyboard, 5 megapixel camera and is just slightly thicker than iPhone and Nexus One. There isn’t any details info on the Windows Phone 7 software walkthrough, but check out more photos at Engadget site.

Created free for Nokia N97 mini and N97 users, the Space Impact – Meteor Shield is now available on Ovi Store, utilizing built in digital compass sensor for the game control. More about the game here

The concept for Space Impact: Meteor Shield is a simple arcade affair – you’re planet Earth’s last hope, and are tasked with taking the controls of a gun turret to protect the world from incoming showers of meteors and alien hordes. Holding the device upright, with the screen parallel to the ground, you control the turret by rotating the phone on its vertical axis, as if you were sat in the hot seat spinning on the spot – never before has the digital compass sensor been used in a game, so it’s great to see it find an effective and suitable home here. As you spin around you get bombarded by incoming attackers that you’re able to fend off by tapping the touchscreen to shoot.

[via Nokia / zomgitscj]

Verizon Wireless has set up an SMS short code for those customers who wish to donate money to help victims of the Chile earthquake. Text Chile to 23583 to donate $10 to Habitat for Humanity or 20222 and donate ...