HP has just announced the new HP rw 6800 multimedia messenger series in Asia. No idea of release dates yet but the device looks good and includes the following specifications.
Source : Aving news network (babelfish)
RIM has finally settled with NTP ahead of an expected ruling from a federal court. The settlement was much lower than many analysts expected and RIM stock jumped by almost 20% to $85.20 on the Nasdaq. Did RIM make the correct decision to settle? Many people believe they did as the uncertainty surrounding the litigation was causing serious reductions in new subscribers to the blackberry service. Only time will tell how Blackberry will be affected in the future.
Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, Friday announced it has settled its long-running patent dispute with a small Virginia-based firm, averting a possible court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry system.
RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in a “full and final settlement of all claims,” the companies said.
Source: CNN
“VIPN - Voice Internet Phone Network presents you the new AXIA A308 PDA Phone described as being a quad-band device offering GSM, GPRS and EDGE connectivity, the AXIA 308 also features Wifi connectivity. It is also the world’s smallest PDA Phone on the Microsoft® Windows® Mobile 5 operating system.”
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Arne Hess over at the theunwired has gotten his hands on the new O2 XDA atom PocketPC phone edition. He will be posting a full review soon but he has posted a number of pictures of the device showing it’s compact size in comparasion to other PocketPc phone edition devices.
“Thanks to O2 Asia, today I found an O2 Xda Atom in front of my door. If you don’t know yet, what the Xda Atom is, it’s an O2 Asia exclusive Pocket PC Phone Edition, running Windows Mobile 5.0, supporting tri-band GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth 1.2 as well as W-LAN b.
Memory-wise the Atom is sporting a total Flash ROM of 128 MB in with 64 MB RAM, features a fast Intel PXA272 416 MHz CPU and has stereo speakers on the front which makes sense since Xda Atom also features a FM radio! Last but not least the Atom includes a 2 megapixel camera with photo light.
While the Xda Atom isn’t that brand new anymore, it was released mid December last year, it’s still new enough, especially because most of us will not get our hands on it because it is released in East and South East Asia only, available exclusively from O2 but it’s also available from some resellers around the world now. “
Read the preview and view the pics @ theunwired
More info has surfaced about Microsoft’s Origami Project over the weekend.
From the Seattle PI: “A video of a mystery device from Microsoft Corp. was discovered online over the weekend—fueling new speculation about the company’s plans in a market dominated by Apple Computer’s Ipod.”
In a statement, Microsoft acknowledged that the video generally reflects “a concept we’ve been working on with partners.” The company, which declined to identify the partners, said it would be able to share more details “in the coming weeks.”
More info: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260983_msftdevice27.html
Source: http://www.pdatoday.com
Mobiletechreview have reviewed the new T-mobile SDA windows mobile 5.0 powered smartphone. This device is manafactured by HTC and may be better known by it’s codename “Tornado”. An extract from the review is include below
“Surprisingly, the phone fits all of this into a device of reasonably modest proportions, and it weighs only 3.74 ounces. Like most PDA phones and Smartphones that run Windows Mobile 5.0, the SDA comes from ODM HTC in Taiwan, and its codename is the HTC Tornado. It’s the same beast as the i-mate SP5m, QTEK 8300 and a close cousin to the Cingular 2125. What the SDA adds to the design is its Quasimodo hump, supposedly to improve US GSM reception (Cingular also hunchbacked their 2125). Having used both the SP5m and the SDA on T-Mobile’s service in the US, I can’t say I’ve noticed significant reception improvements with the hump, which isn’t too terrible looking from the front, but makes the phone look a bit like a coffin from the rear.
Before we dig deeper, let’s take a look at some MS Smartphone basics. Though the user interface and applications look similar to those on Pocket PC, this is not a Pocket PC. It lacks a touch screen (all navigation is handled using the d-pad and keypad) and MS Smartphones generally run on slower processors (though the MDA and Cingular 8125 Windows Mobile Pocket PC phones happen to run on the same CPU as the SDA). Smartphones’ phone ergonomics are very good and are in fact on par with many ordinary feature phones. What makes the phone smart? It can sync to Outlook on Windows desktops, browse “regular” HTML web sites, not just WAP, you can install Windows Mobile smartphone 3rd party applications on the device, and access multiple email accounts using the included Messaging application with strong support for business standards including MS Exchange. It’s a phone first, but a modest PDA second.”
Read the full review @ Mobiletechreview.com
Engadget reports the new Fujitsu-Siemens LOOX N560 is nearing release.
“While not as prolific a source of new device info as the FCC, the Bluetooth Qualification Program (BQP) has just given approval (and therefore credence) to the rumored Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N5xx Brighthand first got wind of last month. Specifically, the is supposed to run Windows Mobile 5.0 on a 624 MHz processor and said to be “the world’s first” GPS-enabled handheld with a 640 x 480 (VGA) screen. It is also said to throw down Bluetooth 2.0, 256MB of storage, USB hosting, and 802.11b/g WiFi. With the T800 series from that leaked roadmap already announced, we’re hopeful to see the N560 drop in March as originally tipped as well”
A new version of Undercroft the PocketPC RPG has been released. Version 1.20 includes new features, bug fixes and support for multiple languages. Currently are supported are English, German and Czech.
Features of the game include:
“The availability of Microsoft’s push e-mail service last week is the company’s latest move to establish Windows Mobile 5.0 as the platform of choice for mobile users.
Interest in Windows Mobile 5.0 has grown steadily, and it now attracts far more developers than any rival mobile operating system. This should improve the likelihood of IT directors being able to buy line-of-business mobile applications for the Microsoft platform. More than 10,000 developers are currently working on applications for Windows Mobile 5.0.
Part of the reason for this developer momentum is Microsoft’s programming model. Nick Jones, vice-president at analyst firm Gartner, said, “Every device using Windows Mobile 5.0 has the same interfaces, but that is absolutely not the case with other operating systems, such as Symbian.”
According to Microsoft, companies that develop for Windows Mobile will be able to use the same skills they already have for desktop Windows development. Staff with Visual Studio and .net Framework languages, such as C# and Visual Basic, can develop for Windows Mobile.
The launch of Microsoft’s .net Compact Framework 2.0 last autumn gave Windows Mobile developers improved managed code application programming interfaces (APIs) to simplify mobile development projects, plus a number of new APIs for Windows Mobile….”
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of one of the five patents at issue in NTP’s long-running case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
The final rejection was posted on the Patent Office’s Web site for the NTP-held patent, which covers a system for sending e-mails over a wireless network to a mobile device. The Patent Office has already issued nonfinal actions rejecting the claims in four out of the five NTP patents in question, but a final rejection is required before the appeals process can begin.
Contacted on Wednesday, NTP’s lead counsel, James Wallace of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, said he had not reviewed the final action and therefore could not comment. NTP has the right to appeal any final rejection notice to a three-judge panel at the Patent Office, and can file further appeals at the federal-court level.
RIM issued a statement confirming it had received the final action and said it expects the rejections to withstand future NTP appeals…..”
Full Story @ zdnet
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