The budget iPhone is a colourful, mythical beast that just won't quit. Its existence is almost a dead cert, and we've been getting plenty of pictures to prove it. Including another one today.

The picture was tweeted by Apple blogger Sonny Dickerson, who told TechRadar that the picture came from a source claiming to have got his or her hands on the fabled budget iPhone.

The colours match up with those spotted yesterday, albeit a slightly paler shade. However it's likely that this is nothing more than the lighting. Or someone, somewhere has been having a great time trolling the internet for the past couple of weeks.

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Meanwhile, we have an array of colourful blips to gaze upon

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While Samsung is clearly focused on the Android ecosystem at its core with the likes of the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 arriving this year, it hasn't forgotten about the feature-smartphone hybrid Tizen.

Samsung ditched its home-brew feature phone OS, Bada, a while back as it looked to merge its efforts with Intel to further develop the Tizen platform - although it's all been pretty quiet on this front thus far.

But Tizen's back with a brand new rap - well a cash incentive anyway, as a huge prize pot of $4 million (around £2.7 million, AU$4.3 million) has been pooled by Samsung and Intel in a bid to attract app developers to the platform.

Show me the money

There a various categories into which apps can be submittted, with the top prize in each "game" category totalling a healthy $200,000 (around £135,000, AU$218,000), with two runners-up prizes of $100,000 (around £67,000, AU$109,000) and then a further three $40,000 (around £27,000, AU$43,000) cash pots to be had.

Meanwhile developers who enter applications into the "non-game" categories will be jostling for a $120,000 (£80,000, AU$130,000) jackpot in each section, with runners-up prizes totalling $60,000 (£40,000, AU$65,000) and $20,000 (£13,000, AU$22,000).

Developers have until November 1 to submit their applications, but it won't be until quite some time after that until we find out if the cash incentives have done enough to get people on board and make Tizen an attractive proposition to consumers. The wait goes on.

Don't think that the whole NSA Prism thing is going away any time soon. And despite Apple telling us that iMessages are highly encrypted, for example, it's hardly convincing people that their chats are safe from prying eyes and ears.

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is one of the ones leading the way of snoop-proof communications, designing a secret messaging app named Heml.is that uses end-to-end encryption to keep third parties out of the conversation.

However, he needs your help as Heml.is is a croudfunded project. If and when it reaches its target and gets built, the app will be free for the most part, with the option to pay to use additional features such as picture messaging.

Also, "Hemlis" is Swedish for "secret". Enjoy that one, fact fans!

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We're quite happy for you to snoop on our blips though

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Google's major Maps update is currently making its way on to the Google Play store, bringing souped up traffic tools and new exploratory features with it.

Although it's not actually available in the iOS App Store yet, the revamped app is based on the design of the existing iPhone Google Maps App.

But it brings some new bells and whistles with it, including a dedicated tablet layout which should play nice with both Android tablets and iPads of all sizes.

Tablet times

Navigational upgrades include traffic reports that give you more details of incidents ahead of you, plus a dynamic alert system that will let you know if a better route to where you're going becomes available - the latter feature is only on Android at the moment, although Google says it's "coming soon" to iOS.

Also included in the upgrade are a couple of Google-friendly features like 'Explore' which pulls up nearby restaurant, bar, hotel and shopping options without you having to physically search for them.

Zagat and Offers, both products from the Google stable, are also integrated into the new Maps, while Latitude and check-ins are on the way out.

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It's also goodbye to offline maps on Android - instead you'll have to type "OK Maps" into the search box when you're at the bit of the map you want to access offline - we're not really sure how this is better, but hey. It's Google's world, we just live in it.

The new Google Maps for mobile is currently compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean Android devices, and anything running iOS 6 and above once it hits the App Store.