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Averatec touts 3G, Wi-Fi UMPCO2 to offer Palm Treo 650 smart phonesMotorola changes mind on Q ship dateWhen will Motorola ship its Q smart phone? Last week, the company's website added a page promoting the slimline would-be Blackberry beater. It said the 1.2cm-thick, keyboard-equipped handset will be "available April 2006". Now Moto has changed the page to read "shipping soon". Is it simply being cautious or is it signalling a serious delay? Palm's low-end Treo spotted on webMotorola Q smart phone 'available April'Palm sales up, shipments downNvidia acquires Hybrid GraphicsIntel spills beans on UMPCNTP, RIM spar over proposed tech licenceBoffins tout world's first single-chip digital microphoneUS start-up Akustica today launched what it claims is the world's first micro-mechanical digital microphone chip that can be manufactured using standard chip-making processes. Pitching the part primarily at PCs, the company said the new part is sufficiently inexpensive to make microphone arrays in notebook screens and desktop monitors commonplace. Blackberry ban decision 'soon', says judgeCalifornia wants green iPodsCalifornia Democrats have introduced legislation to the state assembly tightening the rules on the manufacture and disposal of toxic substances used in electronics. Super-hazardous heavy metals like mercury, cadmium, lead and chromium would be covered by regulations that would come into force in 2008, if passed. RIM lauds latest NTP patent rejectionJudge rejects US govt Blackberry ban immunity requestMio eyes CeBIT for mass GPS device roll-outMio is preparing to announce six Windows Mobile-based navigation devices with integrated GPS receivers, it has emerged. The line-up includes a pair of GPS-enabled PDAs, and four dedicated navigations systems in a variety of form factors. The machines' debut is reportedly set for next month's CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. RIM open to 'reasonable' settlement offer from NTPPalmOS goes Linux - again3GSM PalmSource today unveiled its future OS as the Access Linux Platform (ALP), and this time it really means it. It's been a tumultuous year. At the last 3GSM, PalmSource was talking about moving PalmOS 6.0, aka Cobalt, to a Linux kernel. But a change in strategy, which led to the abrupt departure of CEO Dave Nagel last May, saw a shift in focus to a pure-play Linux OS, details of which were finally disclosed today. In the meantime, Japanese browser company Access acquired PalmSource, fending off a bid from Motorola which thought it had sealed the deal. Motorola promises 3G Q PDA phone for Q43GSM Motorola's would-be BlackBerry-beater, the Q, will ship by the end of the first quarter, the company promised yesterday, before going on to announce a 3G version of the QWERTY keyboard-equipped PDA phone. The wait for the UMTS model will be longer: even the networks won't get their hands on it until "late Q4". HP to ship iPaq hw6900 Wi-Fi PDA phone this 'Spring'3GSM HP today unveiled its latest iPaq Mobile Messenger handset, finally taking the wraps off a device it has been inadvertently mentioning on its website for some time. However, the members of the hw6900 series look a little under-specced compared to Fujitsu Siemens' latest competitor product. Fujitsu Siemens confirms €700 3G PDA phone3GSM Fujitsu Siemens today launched its Pocket Loox T series 3G-based PDA phones, as anticipated, and pledged to ship the 802.11g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS-equipped handsets - one with a two megapixel camera, the other without - next July. The T810 and T830 - the one with the camera - will both ship with Microsoft's Push Direct Technology push email system |
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