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A new SE phone is leaked to the press today, which uses the new UI SonyEricsson is working on the past few months. It has a QVGA screen, EDGE, a 3.2 MP camera. There is also a PSP button on the phone, which might mean that the phone has WiFi to talk to a Sony PSP.

Nokia N71, a member of the Nseries line, is the first Symbian OS 9.1 Series 60 3rd Edition smartphone I had pleasure to test so far. As this is still a proto build (the phone is scheduled for release by the end of March 2006, depending on country and region), no information about stability or performance will be posted at this time, only general look and feel impressions.

The Engadget CES army hit up CES Unveiled and got our chance to cop a feel on the ROKR E2. Fortunately, you get to be the peeping tom, thanks to the addition of the Engadget Video Gnome. While we weren't crazy about the E1 for sure, the E2 did get rid of some of our previous ROKR pet peeves. Check the vid for the full review. Update: Pictures here.

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?

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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