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SanDisk launches ultra fast mobile memory cards

Mar 09 2006 - 10:31 AM ET | Camera, PDA Phone, Smartphone
SanDisk today introduced the SanDisk Ultra® II Mobile line of flash memory cards for mobile phones, at the CeBIT Show in Hannover, Germany. The new memory cards have faster read and write speeds than standard flash memory cards, which...

FCC approves Nokia E61 smartphone

Mar 03 2006 - 05:39 PM ET | Nokia, PDA Phone, Smartphone
After months of salivating over getting a taste of Nokia's Blackberry killer, it looks as though our appetites may be satiated. Today, the FCC approved the Nokia E61 for US consumption! The Nokia E61 is a Symbian OS 9.1...

RedBrowser, Java based trojan in the wild!

Mar 02 2006 - 09:46 AM ET | In The News, Miscellaneous, PDA Phone, SMS, Smartphone
According to Moscow based Kaspersky Labs, a new Trojan horse that is able to infect almost any mobile phone or PDA is in the wild. The Trojan called "RedBrowser" targets traditional mobile phones running Java as well as the newer...

Fifth Media introduces the AXIA A308 PDA Phone

Feb 28 2006 - 12:52 PM ET | Backpage, PDA Phone, Smartphone
Fifth Media has announced their new Axia A308 ahead of CeBit 2006, and is billing it as the world's smallest Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. Details: Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Intel PXA272 CPU 416 MHz 128MB and 64MB RAM 2.2...

PalmSource dumping Garnet for Linux, skips Cobalt

Feb 14 2006 - 02:45 PM ET | PDA Phone, Palm, Smartphone
Access PalmSource today announced their companies latest OS platform and a possible future of the Palm and Treo product lines. The Access Linux platform utilizes Palm OS for Linux with the NetFront browser and open source linux components. The...

Imate SmartFlip

Feb 13 2006 - 10:53 AM ET | PDA Phone, Rumor, Smartphone
The internet rumor mill is blazing this morning with pictures released to the internet of the new iMate SmartFlip. Details are sketchy at this point, but what we are hearing is that it will be clamshell, Windows Mobile 5.0,...

Samsung SGH-I320 slim-line Koreanberry

Feb 13 2006 - 10:07 AM ET | PDA Phone, Samsung, Smartphone
Today Samsung entered the hunt for the Blackberry by releasing it's own Crackberry, Q, Frankenberry rendition, the SGH-I320. The details are slim at this point, but Samsung says the phone is slimmer then a Motorola Q, and is a...

Microsoft launching push email devices

Feb 13 2006 - 09:45 AM ET | Backpage, PDA Phone, Smartphone
Microsoft is planning on launching a couple of devices today to compete with the Blackberry. Microsoft's devices will feature it's version of push email from several providers including Vodaphone, and Cingular. But according to an article at the Wall...

RIM workaround explained

Feb 10 2006 - 11:52 AM ET | PDA Phone, Research In Motion, Smartphone
BusinessWeek is carrying a detailed explanation of how the new RIM workaround would work. Essentially NTP's case and the patents involved, revolve around where emails are stored while a user is out of range, on RIM's two Network Storage...

Cornice Dragon Series Micro HD's

Feb 10 2006 - 10:41 AM ET | Backpage, Miscellaneous, PDA Phone, Smartphone
Cornice’s is making two notable announcements at 3GSM: The Cornice Dragon Series Micro Hard Drive will be launching in 8- and 10-gigabyte capacities. Cornice Hard Drives will be inside the Samsung i300 Mobile Smartphone [via Cornice]...

Nokia E61 shipping in mid February?

Feb 08 2006 - 04:02 PM ET | Nokia, PDA Phone
The buzz on the net is that MobileBee is showing that the new Nokia E61 will be shipping February 15th. Upon calling MobileBee in New York for confirmation, MobileTracker was told that the phone was expected around that time...

FCC approves two new Nokia phones, the N80 and the 6282

Feb 07 2006 - 12:32 PM ET | 3G, Cingular, Nokia, PDA Phone, Smartphone
Yesterday the FCC approved two new Nokia phones for the U.S. market, the 6282 and the N80. The phones appear as originally specced, with both handsets including GSM 850/1900 and WCDMA 1900, but not WCDMA 850. This may make the...

Xplore M68 smartphone by GSPDA announced

Feb 14 2005 - 03:43 AM ET | PDA Phone, Palm, Smartphone
GSPDA announced the Xplore M68 smartphone this morning at 3GSM World Congress. The Palm OS powered smartphone is available now in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Features of the M68 include: * Palm OS Garnet * Bluetooth * 1.3 megapixel...

HP iPAQ h6315 announced

Jul 26 2004 - 12:59 PM ET | PDA Phone
HP today announced its first iPAQ PDA with mobile phone service. The iPAQ h6315 also has the ability to switch seamlessly from WiFi to GPRS. The h6315 will be picked up by T-Mobile USA this summer. The cost will be...

Treo 600 $349 on Sprint PCS

Jul 15 2004 - 04:43 PM ET | Bargain, PDA Phone, Sprint Nextel
An ad in today's USA Today notes that you can purchase a Treo 600 from Sprint PCS for just $349. This is $100 cheaper than the price given online. The ad says, "Now for just $349 at Sprint PCS stores."...

Verizon Treo 600 starting Monday [updated]

Jul 10 2004 - 04:04 PM ET | PDA Phone, Rumor, Verizon Wireless
TreoCentral is reporting that the Treo 600 will ship on Verizon Wireless starting Monday July 12th. For one week it will be available only to business channels. We published a screenshot that showed the Treo 600 on Verizon's website back...

MDA III details released

Jun 28 2004 - 11:16 AM ET | PDA Phone, T-Mobile
T-Mobile quietly released information about the upcoming MDA III on its website. It's an upgrade to the MDA II, and adds features like WiFi and a slide down thumb board. Here are some of the other features: * Bluetooth *...

Orange to use PalmSource software

Feb 23 2004 - 10:41 AM ET | PDA Phone
Euro carrier Orange has announced that it signed a deal with PalmSource, makers of the popular PDA operating system. bq. "Under the terms of the global partnership Orange will join Palm's development programme, the Palm Powered Mobile World, which was...

Treo 600 thoughts roll in

Sep 18 2003 - 03:31 PM ET | Handspring, PDA Phone, Review
After yesterday's news, we've found a few reviews/first thoughts of the Handspring Treo 600. Look for it in stores within the next week or two in Europe, and in November if you're in the US. Walter Mossberg @ The Wall...

Handspring Shows Off Treo 600

Jun 18 2003 - 12:41 PM ET | Camera, Handspring, PDA Phone
The much talked about Treo 600 is finally here. C|Net has been leaking details for a while now, but an official release went out this morning. The device will initially be available in two versions, a CDMA version will be...

Treo 270 In Brazil

May 07 2003 - 12:15 PM ET | Handspring, PDA Phone
Handspring just let us know that their Treo 270 Handheld is now available in Brazil. They've partnered with Alldix to distribute the devices nationwide. In Brazil the device will cosr R$ 3699,00 while in the states it costs US $299....

GSL's New PalmOS Smartphone

Apr 07 2003 - 05:59 PM ET | Camera, PDA Phone
Group Sense Limited (GSL) has announced a new PalmOS powered smartphone called the Zircon. It's going to be available in Asia and Europe with timing not known yet. Look for the European model in Q3 and the Asian model sometime...

Treo 300 For $149.99

Apr 07 2003 - 02:06 PM ET | Bargain, Handspring, PDA Phone
The Handspring Treo 300 now has $200 worth of rebates on it directly from Sprint (up from $100) as noted by Gizmodo. The PDA which sports a color screen, keyboard, and PCS connectivity can be had for just $149.99 from...

Web Server on the P800!

Mar 17 2003 - 02:38 PM ET | Bluetooth, Camera, PDA Phone, Sony Ericsson, Unique
A really smart guy with way to much time on his hands wrote up a web server (in Java) for the Sony Ericsson P800 [previous mention]. You can serve pages via GSM or GPRS. It's even got built in real...

3G Motorola Phone Leaked

Mar 17 2003 - 10:55 AM ET | 3G, Camera, Motorola, PDA Phone
Due to an FCC filing pictures and details about an upcoming 3G phone from Motorola have been circulating. The A920 looks pretty hip--it's pretty much one big color screen. It's got a built in digital camera that can take stills...

Palm Tungsten on ATT

Mar 10 2003 - 06:15 PM ET | PDA Phone, Palm
Palm's Tungsten W PDA now works on the ATT network. We're not sure how long this deal has been around, but it doesn't look like long. The Tungsten W PDA features a high resolution screen with over 65K colors,...

P800 Orders Being Taken

Mar 06 2003 - 09:41 PM ET | Camera, PDA Phone, Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson is now taking orders for its new P800. It's probably one of the most anticipated phones of the year and will surely become a hit. The downside is the price--$649.99. For that money you could buy a...

Kyocera 7135 PDA Phone

Mar 01 2003 - 01:15 PM ET | Kyocera, PDA Phone
The Kyocera 7135 hasn't gotten much press, but it should have. It's a phone that runs the Palm OS. If it were only a little smaller, it would be a hit....

Mossberg Reviews Tungsten W

Feb 28 2003 - 03:17 PM ET | PDA Phone, Palm, Review
Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal has posted a review of the brand new Palm Tungsten W. He says it's a great PDA and a crappy phone. A few days ago he reviewed the Sony Ericsson P800--it was...