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The Nokia 3230 is one of the latest additions to Nokia's ever-growing family of Series 60 phones. It was designed to appear business-like, yet have that certain hip and cool factor necessary to appeal to the younger crowd. It is also priced at a level more obtainable than most Series 60 handsets. It is a triband (900/1800/1900Mhz) phone with support for EDGE networks, and features Bluetooth, infrared, and a 1.2 megapixel camera.

Dell has posted a ROM update for their Axim X30 A06 line of handhelds on its web site. The ROM update has the following fixes.

Chris De Herrera has posted pictures and videos showing the impressive graphical capabilities of the Dell Axim X50v (thought by many as the most powerful PDA to date) running the upgrade to Windows Mobile 5.0 (Dell will sell the upgrade in the next few months). The impressive part here is that the x50v was never meant to be a 3D games device, but the addition of a better DirectX infrastructure in the recent Windows Mobile releases and the 16 MBs 3D card from Intel accompanying the 624 Mhz XScale CPU can make this a reality.

Ever since we saw this device the first time in real (at the CeBIT 2005 in Germany) we fell in love with that MDA compact challenger. One of the great benefits of the P505 is: it has a keypad. See our fotostory and learn more about this hot Pocket PC.

'˜Unexpected' was definitely the word for what took place just minutes ago. Like a phoenix from the flames, computing legend Commodore summarily resurrected itself while also sticking its legendary oar into the portable media player arena in the comely form of the PMC30.

The guys at handhelds.org have managed to boot the linux kernel on a Dell Axim X50 handheld, the project is at alpha stages, you can grab a copy of the files from handhelds.org or fisherss.com.

Nokia has developed a new browser for Series 60-based smartphones. One of the motivating factors behind Nokia designing a new Internet browser is results from a Nokia "Smartphone360" consumer research study that found that 50% of data traffic is generated by browsing.

In response to my last post on Microsoft's rapidly growing global footprint in the digital media universe, one ZDNet reader complained that, while I was reporting on that colonization, I wasn't taking a stand or expressing a viewpoint. Another ZDNet reader, Godot, took such sides, accusing Microsoft of unfairly wielding its operating system monopoly in an effort to dominate yet another market.

Expert-Zone reviews the versalite Sansa e140 MP3-Player from Sandisk.

OQO has announced the worldwide availability of its OQO model 01 ultra personal computer through eXpansys.