European Handheld Shipments Continue to Climb

By Ed Hardy | 7/21/2004

During the second quarter of this year, handheld shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa increased by 43 percent, while smartphone shipments increased 57 percent.

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New Book Shows Palm Users How to Lose the Laptop

By Ed Hardy | 7/20/2004

A new book, Lose The Laptop, takes on the emerging trend of replacing a laptop with a smartphone or handheld.

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Verizon Offering Windows Mobile 2003 Upgrade for i600

By Ed Hardy | 7/20/2004

A free upgrade to Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphones is now available for the Samsung SCH-i600.

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Verizon Now Offering Treo 600 to Everyone

By Ed Hardy | 7/19/2004

palmOne's Treo 600 smartphone can now be purchased by anyone from Verizon Wireless. Until now this wireless service provider was only offering it through business channels.

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Motorola MPx100 Smartphone May Never Be Released

By Ed Hardy | 7/16/2004

It now it appears that this low-cost Windows Mobile smartphone may not ever hit the market.

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Treo 600 Now Available from Verizon

By Ed Hardy | 7/13/2004

palmOne's Treo 600 smartphone can now be purchased from Verizon Wireless through business channels.

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Sony Ericsson P900 Replacement Expected this Week

By Ed Hardy | 7/12/2004

What are supposed to be some pictures of Sony Ericsson's upcoming top-of-the-line smartphone appeared on the Web this week.

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EFF Attacks Handheld-Related Patents

By Ed Hardy | 7/9/2004

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has started a campaign to get a number of what it regards as bad patents off the books. Three of these are directly related to handhelds and smartphones.

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Upgrade a MPx200 to Windows Mobile 2003 (Updated)

By Ed Hardy | 7/9/2004

When Motorola and AT&T introduced the MPx200 last year, it ran Microsoft's Smartphone 2002. Now an unofficial upgrade to the latest version of this operating system is available.

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palmOne Reaches Out to Mac Users

By Ed Hardy | 7/8/2004

palmOne has introduced an area on its web site for Apple Macintosh users who want to get the most out of their palmOne handhelds and smartphones. However, many Mac users are wondering whether future palmOne handhelds will come with desktop synchronization software that they can use.

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Treo 600 May Finally Be Coming to Verizon

By Ed Hardy | 7/8/2004

What appears to be an internal Verizon document describing this wireless service providers' plans for palmOne's smartphone has leaked out.

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Sierra Wireless Names Voq Distributors

By Ed Hardy | 7/7/2004

Sierra Wireless has announced which distributors will be the first to handle its Voq smartphone in North America.

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