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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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  • Last.fm: Mobile Via Vodafone Deal (video)

    Last.fm: Mobile Via Vodafone DealLast.fm is expanding their service away from just computers on to mobile phones, with Vodafone.

    It looks like the relatively recent corporate owners of Last.fm, CBS, are flexing their biz dev muscles, aiming to gain back some of the considerable investment they made in the music service.

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  • OpeniBoot: Linux On The iPhone (Video)

    OpeniBoot: Linux On The iPhone (Video)Interesting to see that Apple’s iPhone has had its iPhone interface replaced with a version of Linux by a group of determined enthusiastic Linux fans.

    From the video that we’ve seen (below) – and who knows if it’s for real? – OpeniBoot gives iPhone owners the choice to start the iPhone up in Linux, as well as the normal Apple OS.

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  • Virgin Mobile: 30p/Day For Internet Access

    Virgin Mobile: 30p/day For InternetEvery day more people are accessing data services from their mobile phones, like Internet browsing, Twittering, checking Facebook.

    Virgin Mobile are to be offering a 30p per day Internet tariff from 8 December to tempt people to their network, or indeed keep them.

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  • Met Office To Offer Free VOD Weather To Your Mobile

    Met Office To Offer Free VOD Weather To Your MobileThe Met Office, well-know weather forecasters, are to offer a world’s first – a free-of-charge (beyond any of your own mobile data charges), video on-demand weather service to your mobile phone.

    Access will be via a branded portal (lovely to hear that phrase again :) ), giving access to weather forecasts that will be updated several times a day – currently the mobile site is saying it’s three times a
    day.

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  • Android: Round Up Of The Best Apps For The T-Mobile G1

    Android: Round Up Of The Best Apps For The T-Mobile G1With Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC) company – makers of T-Mobile’s G1 Google Phone – upgrading sales forecasts to hit one million units by the end of 2008 (and account for 4 percent of all smartphones sold in the US during the fourth quarter of 2008), we thought it might be an idea to post some links to new and available software.

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  • Palm: The End Is Nigh?

    The End Is Nigh?Struggling smartphone maker Palm is slashing its workforce numbers as it continues to lose market share to rivals Apple and Blackberry (Research in Motion).

    Employees are already being ejected at a rate of knots, with spokeswoman Lynn Fox positively spinning the workers’ misery thus: “The goal is to consolidate resources and focus our efforts more effectively.”

    Palm currently employs around a thousand employees but has seen their bite of the smartphone market shrink, despite the success of the Palm OS Centro smartphone and their well received Windows Mobile handsets.

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  • Searching For The Supremo Smartphone (Part Two)

    Searching For The Supremo Smartphone (Part Two)In part one of our review of the best smartphones on the market we looked at the Apple 3G iPhone, the Palm Centro, the Blackberry Bold and the Sony Ericsson C905.

    Read on for our next selection.

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