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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?

HP broke out news on the Malaysian availablity of its hw6515 Mobile Messenger July 2005 at RM2,888 (approx. $760) a pop. The phone number you see below is the HP Online Store, Malaysia.

HP is pleased to announce that we will be supporting the Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ Version 5.0 for Pocket PC upgrade for the HP iPAQ Pocket PC … HP will provide upgrades for the HP iPAQ hx4700, hx2000 series …
- quoted from HP upgrade announcement on its website
Notice that certain iPAQ series are not upgradeable (a [...]

Robert over at the Windows Mobile Team Blog declares in his entry that more Windows Mobile devices with square screens ala HP’s hw6500/6700 series of PDA phones are in the horizon, and urges developers to code and test out new software on the square-screen emulator provided by Microsoft.
We are now left to speculate on [...]

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 [...]

We have always considered the iPAQ hx2750 as best of the current crop of HP PDA’s (yes - even against its glamorous hx4700 brother) and are heartened to read time and again, good reviews of the superb PDA and the results that come out of them.

Granted, the hx2750 does not sport a fancied VGA (480×640) [...]

Brighthand has word of Dell’s future plans for its Axim handheld lineup, which according to its source would include what could be a PDA phone model in 2006 and a multimedia powerhouse with a built-in hard drive in the nearer future (this Fall ‘05).
Read the rest in Brighthand’s article.

Not exactly cutting-edge, the iPAQ hx2755 nevertheless is a solidly made productivity PDA. The 240×320-pixel display may not appeal to the tech-chasers, but work well in this unit that also sports Bluetooth, WiFi and a biometric security scanner to prevent those Paris Hilton … uh, corporate secrets from falling into wrong hands.

eCost.com has it for [...]