A New Palm Treo Uses Microsoft's Software, But It Doesn't Beat 650

Palm's Treo smart phones have been the best high-end cellphones on the market, with the finest combination of voice, email and Web-browsing capabilities in a hand-held device. But many corporate information-technology departments have refused to buy the phone. Why?

Wi-Fi enabled SGH-T709, SGH-T609 debut from Samsung

The SGH-T709 slider is Samsung's first non-smartphone handset with Wi-Fi for Western markets; the SGH-T609 is a business-minded clamshell with modest specifications.

New WiFi VoIP Phones Run Linux?

Two companies announced new WiFi VoIP phones today at CES. The first one is the "Netgear WiFi phone for Skype". This is not confirmed that it's using Linux, but Netgear is known for using Linux across their product line and Skype needs Qt to run. The other products are WNC's GW1 dual mode GSM/WiFi SIP phones. This apparently is running a themed version of Trolltech's latest Qtopia Phone edition with VoIP SIP capabilities. The same company also has two clamshell versions too using the same core (1, 2).

Motorola Delivers Barrage Of Audio Accessories

Motorola announced 6 new audio accessories in conjunction with their launch of the ROKR E2. All but one of the new devices is Bluetooth enabled. All the accessories are due out in the first half of this year. The S805 DJ Headphones are the most interesting in the bunch.

Sony Ericsson unveils the W810i

The K750 and W800 are two of the most successfull SonyEricsson phones ever, and now the company has unveiled the W810i revision. This time the phone is Quad Band and has EDGE, but SE has removed half of the internal memory (20MBs) and the FM radio. Two steps forward, two steps back too it seems for this model.

Samsung zx20 with HSDPA

Samsung announced the zx20, what could the first commercially available HSDPA handset. Because of HSDPA, Cingular is the expected carrier, though Samsung won't confirm this.

Pepper Announces New Pepper Pad Plus

New, also Linux-based, product offers increased battery life, bigger hard disk, improved Wi-Fi, VOIP and expanded digital media capabilities.

iRIVER G10 attacks the PSP

The parent company of iRIVER, Reigncom, has announced the G10 for CES 2006. It's a console similar to the PSP or Nintendo DS but it runs on Windows Mobile 5 and has between 4 and 8GB of storage space. You'll be able to play 3D games on the WVGA (800x480) screen.

Motorola ROKR E2 (Linux-based) announced

Motorola has unveiled the ROKR E2, its second music phone. Unlike the ROKR E1, the E2 does not have iTunes.The E2 is compatible with iRadio which was also launched today. It is using the new (non-touchscreen) UI Motorola created a few months ago which is using their own version of the Linux OS. More pics here. Please note that this is a high-end feature phone and not a smartphone (because the native SDK will not be provided to developers).

Motorola A1200 Info

The FCC has posted the manual and other info of the Linux-based upcoming A1200 Motorola phone.

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