New Palm OS Licensee Targets India, Latin America

By Ed Hardy | 8/2/2004

QTech intends to develop Palm Powered smartphones for two of the fastest-growing cellular markets in the world.

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Motorola Announces A780 Linux SmartPhone and MPx220 Pocket PC SmartPhone

By Andrew | 7/28/2004

Motorola yesterday hosted a press event dubbed "Seamless Mobility". Motorola announced their new ultra-thin RAZR V3 clamshell phone, iTunes Alliance -- a strategic alliance to between Apple and Motorola to bring iTunes to Motorola's next-generation phones, and finally their new Linux based A780 SmartPhone and MPx220 SmartPhone. Both SmartPhones are slated for a Q4 release.

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Microsoft Smartphone 2006 Release Date

By Brian | 7/28/2004

msmobiles.com is reporting that they've obtained the release date of Microsoft's next phone operating system. While not officially referred to as Smartphone 2006, the naming convention would match prior releases of this nature. The new OS is said to be based on the Windows CE 5.0 core and will boast a camera and notifications API, amongst other improvements.

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Mini PDA Form Factor to Dominate the Smartphone Landscape

By Brian | 7/28/2004

As PDAs start to take on phone properties and phones the opposite, it’s clear to many that the Smartphone will become the mobile phone and PDA market leader in the next few years. Jin-Sung Choi shares this vision. The head of the Mobile Communications Tech Research Lab at LG Electronics gave a recent keynote describing how he sees the mobile handset design evolving over the next several years. It’s great insight, given we tend to look at the same coin from the other side.

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Voq Professional Phone From Sierra Wireless Released in the Netherlands

By Brian | 7/28/2004

Sierra Wireless has launched their first Smratphone, the Voq Professional Phone, on the KPN network. The Voq is powered by Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 and features a unique flip-open QWERTY keypad for data entry. The Voq devices are on sale now for $99 (Euro) with a 2-year phone plan and a 5MB data plan.

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Sony Ericsson Announces The P910 Smartphone

By Brian | 7/28/2004

Sony Ericsson has announced the P910, a progressive follow-up to their P900 smartphone. The P910 features a new thumb keyboard, improved screen, 64MB RAM (up from 16MB) and a more robust software package than the P900. The P910 also includes Bluetooth and runs Symbian 7.0 with the UIQ user interface.

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Motorola May Be Cancelling the MPx100

By Brian | 7/28/2004

DigiTimes is reporting that Motorola has suspended their order for the MPx100 smartphone with Compal Communications. While this doesn't mean the smartphone is dead, it's not a good sign either. The report goes on to say that orders for the MPx and MPx220 are still going as planned.

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Future Motorola Smartphones to Include iTunes

By Ed Hardy | 7/28/2004

Motorola and Apple have formed a partnership that will bring the iTunes music service to future Motorola smartphones.

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Nokia N-Gage QD Launched in U.S.

By Ed Hardy | 7/27/2004

Although Nokia released the updated version of its gaming-oriented smartphone in much of the rest of the world back in May, it is only becoming available in America today.

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MPx220 Officially Unveiled by Motorola... Again

By Ed Hardy | 7/27/2004

Motorola has officially announced the MPx220 for a second time. The new announcement indicates that this smartphone will possibly the first to run Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphones Second Edition.

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Microsoft Mobile Group Reports Increased Revenues

By Ed Hardy | 7/23/2004

Revenues increased for the segment of Microsoft responsible for its handheld and smartphone operating systems during its most recent financial quarter, but not enough to make it profitable.

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JAVOSkin Case Released for Treo 600

By Ed Hardy | 7/23/2004

JAVOedge has added a JAVOSkin form-fitting case for palmOne's Treo 600 smartphone to its product lineup.

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