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This page contains information about the Psion / Symbian ER5 emulator - a PC application that allows you to run Psion applications and files.

MobiTV promises to change the way people use their handsets and how manufacturers and carriers approach phone design. Samsung has introduced the SGH-P900, the first T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) standard compatible handset for the European market. It's a phone with a twist.

Motorola first announced its intention to migrate its mobile "smart" phones to embedded Linux in 2003. The first such phone to reach the market was the A760 in the fourth quarter of that year. Today there are a dozen or so models (differing product numbers in different markets and minor hardware variations lead to different counts), but there are still no significant ecosystems for third-party applications or developers. Is Motorola's switch to Linux a hit for the company but a miss for end users?

Linux working on the Palm Treo 650When I last wrote about Linux on the Treo 650, it was barely booting up the command prompt. Now less than 2 months later, developers have got the GPE graphical interface up and running.

Confirming rumors and speculation of a new Sony Ericsson handset with a QWERTY keypad, the company has today announced the M600 UMTS compatible smartphone. The second handset in Sony Ericsson's line-up featuring Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0, the Sony Ericsson M600 is a very thin and stylish business device. Along with a keypad similar to that seen on the Blackberry 7100 series, the handset features a QVGA touch sensitive screen and Bluetooth wireless technology, though paying homage to its business design, does not feature a camera.

A possible image of the next Palm OS Treo has been posted in the forums at TreoCentral. The image is what the poster claims is the Palm Treo 700p. The Treo pictured has the same basic form factor as the 700w with Sprint's new branding.

Provisions against digital rights management in a draft update to the General Public License could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said this week in e-mails reflecting the Linux leader's pragmatic philosophy.

Adding new fuel to the debate over cell phone safety, three European research groups in separate studies have found an increased risk of brain tumors in people who have used the phones for 10 years or more.

You tried some of the registry hacks floating around to use Bluetooth headsets with Pocket PCs and it didn't work well? Over at the Windows Mobile Team Blog, Mike Calligaro explains why Voice Command doesn't work over Bluetooth (BTh) headsets: "The short story is that the current version of Voice Command relies on microphones that sample at 16 kHz, but BTh headsets only do 8kHz.".

Eight cell phones, $160,000 and a good idea--could this be the future of filmmaking? South African director Aryan Kaganof thinks so. And to prove it, he made "SMS Sugar Man," which is billed as the world's first feature film shot entirely on mobile phones.