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msmobiles.com was reporting earlier, that HP will release a Pocket PC Phone Edition made by Quanta. While we stated that it will only be an re-pack of the already available XDA Atom from O2 Asia, John Cheong from O2 Asia Pacific wrote this: "We don't offer "me-too" devices, and this is - and remains - our commitment to O2 customers."

Cingular and T-Mobile are fighting for Pocket PC phone lovers' business with their respective versions of the HTC Wizard, both released in Feb. 2006. Cingular got a few weeks' jump on T-Mobile, getting a few into consumers' and business users' hands by the second week of February while the T-Mobile version is officially available Feb. 21. What is a Wizard?

Quanta/O2 loaned OSNews a unit of their brand new GSM communicator, the O2 XDA Atom. The phone is a GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS class B, multi-slot class 10, EDGE phone running Windows Mobile 5.1 (the unit arrived loaded with the latest ROM). Dig in for more info about this interesting smartphone, mostly aimed at the Australia/Asian and European markets.

Panasonic is shipping a Linux-based mobile handset capable of receiving digital or analog television. The "P901iTV" features a pivoting 2.5-inch color LCD, and works with NTT DoCoMo's 3G network in Japan. Digital TV services will launch in Japan this spring, DoCoMo says.

Mobile-Review and PDAExpertos have both published photos of a Haier smartphone running the Access Linux Platform (ALP) recently announced by Access and its subsidiary, PalmSource. The photos were taken earlier this month at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona.

To say that today's smartphones are as powerful as personal computers were a decade ago is quickly becoming cliché, but that doesn't make it any less true. Witness the Cingular 8125: despite being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, this powerful quad-band phone packs a 200 MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, enough on-board memory to store scores of MP3s, pictures or videos, and a MiniSD slot to add gigabytes of additional storage, as needed.

At the Sony Ericsson party in Barcelona last week MobileBurn had the chance to sit down with some SE executives and talk about their new handsets. The inaugural M series handset, the UMTS/GSM M600, shares a large percentage of its components with the W950 Walkman phone that was announced later that night.

The XDA Atom communicator by O2 operator is made by the Taiwanese company Quanta Computer. With time this model will come out under other trademarks (name will be different, design will be slightly changed).

The MiTAC manufacturer is on the point of marketing not less than 4 new PND like 2 Pocket PC equipped with an integrated receiver GPS. If those are already revealed in images and design features on the site of official of Mio reserved for the press, it will be necessary to wait the next month so that they are presented at the time of the CeBIT show of Hanover.

Operators and handset makers are moving toward standardizing on just a few mobile phone operating systems. They're likely to choose relatively open platforms with large developer groups, according to experts at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday -- but that doesn't necessarily mean that end-users will soon be able to freely download lots of new applications, they said.