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Palm Pixi Plus Review
PUBLISHED: Friday, March 19, 2010
Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus is small, light, and inexpensive but still powerful. It runs the webOS, and offers a very robust web browser, built-in keyboard, 3G, Wi-Fi, and much more. Jen Edwards brings us a review.

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Push To Talk Service Now Available for All Verizon's BlackBerrys
PUBLISHED: 3/19/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Verizon Wireless has released an app that lets any of its customers with a BlackBerry have push to talk service, basically making the phone act like a walkie-talkie. The software is free, but there's a small monthly service fee.
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Windows Phone 7 Will Not Offer Copy and Paste
PUBLISHED: 3/18/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Windows Phone 7 is going to be a complete re-vamp of Microsoft's operating system for smartphones. One of the features getting axed is the ability to copy a piece of text and then paste it somewhere else, which is being deliberately left out.
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Sprint Might Unveil the WiMAX-Enabled HTC Supersonic Next Week
PUBLISHED: 3/18/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Sprint is reportedly going to take the wraps off the HTC Supersonic, its first smartphone with 4G service, much earlier than previously thought. This device is expected to run Google's Android OS and have a very large high-resolution touchscreen.
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HTC Incredible Could Launch from Verizon in Two Weeks
PUBLISHED: 3/18/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
A new unconfirmed report indicates that Verizon will have the HTC Incredible on sale around the end of this month. This high-end Android OS smartphone will supposedly be almost identical to the Google Nexus One, and sport a large high-resolution touchscreen and a 1 GHz processor.
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Motorola Droid's Android OS 2.1 Upgrade Could Finally Start Rolling Out Tomorrow
PUBLISHED: 3/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Motorola Droid users may soon get the system software update they've been waiting for. This will include most of the features users have been hoping for, like much greater support for speech recognition and pinch-to-zoom.
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Google Nexus One Headed for Sprint
PUBLISHED: 3/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Sprint has just announced that the Google Nexus One will soon be an option for its subscribers. This is the flagship Android OS smartphone, offering a wide array of high-end features, including a large, high-resolution touchscreen, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, and much more.
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Motorola Cliq XT Now Available from T-Mobile
PUBLISHED: 3/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
T-Mobile has introduced the Motorola Cliq XT, its fifth device running Google's Android OS. This touchscreen-based device has been created for those looking for their first smartphone. It has a low price, but not quite as low as had been thought.
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Three Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Revealed So Far
PUBLISHED: 3/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Although the first models running Windows Phone 7 won't be on the market until the end of this year, Microsoft has already begun to show off a few of the devices that will run its next smartphone operating system.
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Google Nexus One Now Available to AT&T Customers
PUBLISHED: 3/16/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Google has just introduced a version of the Nexus One that fully supports AT&T's cellular-wireless network, including its 3G service. Until now, the flagship Android OS smartphone has been available only to T-Mobile customers.
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Motorola Cliq XT Will Debut Tomorrow for Under $100
PUBLISHED: 3/16/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
There's good news for T-Mobile customers who are planning to get a Motorola Cliq XT: this Android OS smartphone will apparently launch tomorrow at a price below what was previously thought. It will offer a tablet shape with 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a range of other features. Updated
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Smartphone Shipments Up 25% in 4Q of Last Year
PUBLISHED: 3/15/2010  BY: Jamison Cush
According to analysts at ABI Research, 25% more smartphones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 than the previous quarter, reversing a trend of lackluster growth for most of the year.
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Software Developers Start to Line Up Behind Windows Phone 7
PUBLISHED: 3/15/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Microsoft has just announced details on the tools developers will need to create third-party software for Windows Phone 7, and also gave a list of companies that have already agreed to start work on apps for this new operating system.
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