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So okay you guys - got the skinny yet on Motorola’s wannabe Treo killer, the simply named Q?

The Q will be one of the first (if not the first by time of availability Q4 2005) mobile phone with a built-in keyboard to run Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone edition, thereby earning it the “smartphone” tag [...]

Woo-hoo! Not going to take anything away from engadget, folks: They have been on this “RAZRberry story” for quite awhile now, and had just landed further confirmation on the new BlackBerry-styled Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone, codenamed Franklin. (Yeah, we prefer RAZRberry too.)

We just look forward to it being available in the market: when, when?

Barely days after their launch of the LifeDrive, and palmOne is already fielding talk of other models to beef up its Mobile Manager sub-brand.
… PalmOne hopes to create a whole family of devices based on the LifeDrive. “This is just the first in a new genre of products” …
- Stephane Maes, director of product management, [...]

Okay now that the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system - formerly codenamed Magneto - is officially launched by none other than Chairman Gates himself, what can we expect from the device manufacturers?
Two of them are certain: Samsung announced that its hard-drive smartphone the SGH-i300 will be Windows Mobile 5.0 powered, and HTC does the same [...]

Hey everybody, it’s been a slow week or so on PDA news, most if not all concentrating on software releases (which we don’t really cover), some pointless ramblings about a Zire 73 (which we all know are just website traffic stunts for now), and the yet-to-see-light Tungsten X from palmOne - or is the LifeDrive [...]

Thanks to you, our customers, we’ve sold over one million Treo™ smartphones. To celebrate this milestone we’re giving away one Treo smartphone every five minutes between the hours of 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern to 9 pm Pacific/Midnight Eastern time, today, Tuesday, April 19, 2005. Enter as many times as you want. You could win a [...]

Get the RIM BlackBerry 7100g smartphone with RIM’s much-touted push-email technology from eCost.com for free.
The regular price is $249.99, but you get a two $125 MIR’s which means the phone’s free after. Of course, to qualify you need to sign up on a Cingular plan upon purchase. MIR’s valid until 4/30 so best hurry [...]

Just got an email announcing palmOne price drops:
The Zire 31 is now $129 from $149, and the Treo 600 $299 from $349 (with contract). Both models come with a boatload of other offers if you buy from the Palm Store or Treo Store, respectively.
Thanks in part to PalmInfocenter.

A Trojan horse has been created that causes smart phones to crash, security software maker F-Secure has warned.
The Finnish company posted details of the Trojan horse, which they’ve named Fontal.A, on Wednesday. Fontal.A affects Nokia Series 60 handsets running the Symbian operating system. The advisory did not say whether any infections had been reported.
- excerpt [...]

Ever since news broke that i-mate is setting up shop in US, we had been real curious if this will lead to better pricing of these two hot models. So Da Boss made some pricing enquiries with one of the appointed distributors for i-mate’s products, Portable Add-ons USA of Fountain Valley, CA and came up [...]