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  • Insiders View of Palm Pre (Video)

    Insiders View of Palm Pre (Video)Are you looking for an inside view on the highly impressive Palm Pre, beyond our Full Palm Pre review?

    Roger McNamee — his Elevation Partners invested 20% ($425m) of their fund in Palm two years ago when the WebOS and the Palm Pre were taking shape — spills the beans on how they got involved and importantly how Palm turned itself around from the dark days when even hard-bitten Palm fans struggled to find good news about them.

    It’s an interesting interview with great quotes like … “The important things to realise is that this is just the first product.”

    Well worth watching.
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  • Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Smartphone: Details Leaked

    Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Smartphone: Details LeakedCurrently slipping under doorways and out through cracks in the wall are shots of the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic handset.

    According to a comprehensive pre-release preview on the Mobile Review website, the mid-market Nokia 5730 will pack a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a two inch QVGA screen (240×320 pixels, 31×42 mm), 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, EDGE data and Bluetooth v2.0 with support for EDR running on Symbian S60.

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  • Vodafone To Bag Palm Pre Handset For UK?

    Vodafone To Bag Palm Pre Handset For UK?Rumours are beginning to circulate that Vodafone may be looking to nab the eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset on an exclusive deal when it’s released in the UK.

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  • Nokia N97 Touchscreen Smartphone Set For March Release?

    Nokia N97 Touchscreen Smartphone Set For March Release?Nokia’s keenly awaited N97 touchscreen handset looks to have its UK launch date confirmed, with the e-retailer Play.com posting up a pre-order page on their site.

    The site lists a release date of March 31st, 2009 for the Nokia N97 with a decidedly upmarket unlocked.sin free price of GBP 479.99 (US$707), with free shipping.

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  • Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC (Part 2/2)

    Part one of our Sony Vaio P Review was wowed at shiny colours; initial impressions on opening it and amazing screen resolution. Here’s the concluding section.

    Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PCsKeyboard impresses
    If the display didn’t exactly knock us out, the keyboard was an unexpected treat. Although it’s clearly substantially smaller than a full laptop keyboard (Sony say that it’s 88 percent the size of their Sony Vaio TT keyboard, which is already smaller than a regular keyboard), it’s extremely well designed. We managed to get up a fair rate of knots on the thing with few errors and would feel comfortable typing out quite a few emails on it.

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  • Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC

    We think this is the first serious review of the Sony Vaio P, it’s not a just a couple of quick paragraphs, but a more in depth examination for what it’s like to use. We hope you enjoy it.

    Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PCsWe’d already dribbled and drooled all over the first press photos of Sony’s gorgeous new Vaio P Series netbook, so couldn’t miss the opportunity to check it out at the UK launch event at the famous champagne bar at St Pancras station.

    Our first impressions – once we got over the disappointment of the promised free champagne being replaced by a warm cup of coffee (! :) ) – was overwhelmingly positive.

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  • Palm Pre: WebOS Videos To Watch

    Palm Pre: Videos To WatchYou may well have seen our enthusiastic story on the first viewing of the Palm Pre last week.

    To give you some more insight in to the Palm Pre, we’ve gathered a few video that show the interface – WebOS – that many people have been enthusing about.

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  • Palm Pre: Hitting Back With Stunning New Phone And WebOS

    Palm Hits back With Stunning New Pre Phone And WebOSWe must admit that our expectations were running low for Palm’s do-or-die press launch yesterday, but we’ve been left blown away by their hugely impressive new Palm Pre handset and WebOS operating system.

    Palm Pre handset
    Featuring a 3.1-inch accelerometer-sensed 320 x 480 multi touch display with full QWERTY keyboard in portrait orientation, the phone packs in all the features conspicuously absent from previous Palm OS handsets, including 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS with turn by turn mapping, Bluetooth with stereo A2DP and EV-DO Rev. A 3G.

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  • BlackBerry Curve 8900 Hits Vodafone UK, T-Mobile US

    BlackBerry Curve 8900 Hits Vodafone UK, T-Mobile USThe latest from the Blackberry stable, the Curve 8900, is now available on UK Vodafone and T-Mobile will have it in the US.

    The Curve builds on the success of previous models – some people are even declaring it a combination of Curve, Bold and Storm.

    With the screen from the Bold (high-res 2.4-inch 360×480), the 3.2Mpx camera from the Curve, WiFi, GPS and a very strong audio and video player, including divx playback, it’s going to be one to watch.

    Big excitement
    We’re hugely excited about getting our hands on the Blackberry Curve 8900.

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  • Peek Email Device: Hands On

    We managed to get a brief hands on with the Peek email gadget at the WiredStore in New York and thought we’d share a few impressions.

    This little fella is designed for one thing only – accessing mobile email over the GPRS data network – and comes with a full keypad and a 240 x 320 pixels colour screen (with a rather small font size).

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