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So you just bought a brand new WM5 device. The box says it's got 64M of RAM. You go digging through control panels on the device and find one that says it's only got 50M. Is something wrong? Should you be worried about this? The short answers are "No" and "No." This will explain why. UPDATE: On related news, ActiveSync 4.1 was released.

Palm's latest model, the TX, is its most ambitious new handheld in a long time. This isn't because it's full of cutting-edge features. It certainly is not. However, very few mid-range models have ever offered much innovation. Instead, for the first time in much too long, Palm has come out with a handheld that's easily capable of competing on price. Part I and Part II.

Mobile-Review takes a look at the Series40 Nokia 7370, part of the L'Amour collection. The phone is interesting, except the only 10MBs of available storage.

1src.com posted a list of the best and worst Palms of all time. Agreed, the PalmV was the best PDA ever released in terms of form and function, for the time (1999). It only had little memory, a problem that was fixed on the later model, PalmVx.

On Monday Sony Ericsson launched the new J220, J230 and Z300 entry level handsets.

Intellisync Corporation announced today that Intellisync has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nokia. Under the terms of the agreement, Intellisync has an enterprise value of approximately USD 430 million dollars. Apparently Nokia wants to add sync capabilities to Symbian.

TCPMP 0.7 which was released contains the following featurs: Speex audio decoder support, Epson graphics controller mode, Nexio XP40 DirectDraw overlay support, mjpeg gray-scale support, minimal jpeg, tiff, png image file support, better support for enhanched podcasts, coverart support for music files, ffmpeg library updated support for low resolution decoding, h263 elementary stream support, PalmOS: advanced opitons dialog, PalmOS: T|X LCD tweak options.

The Linux Phone Standards forum was launched today by Industry pioneers including the likes of PalmSource, France Telecom and Jaluna to accelerate creation of standards for Linux based telephony. Founding members of LiPS, John Ostrem, lead scientist of PalmSource and Michel Gien, EVP of Jaluna, comment on this initiative including their low down on how LiPS will impact cellphone economics, choice and variety of applications and services.

Opera Software today released Opera 8.5 for S60 phones. The last release (version 8) was released back in July. New features in 8.5 listed here.

Linux-based portable multimedia devices seem to be on the ball lately, a new such multimedia device has surfaced, the Pontis MX2020 (review). It sports a 3.5" QVGA touchscreen, 20 GB disk, A/V and voice recording, stereo speakers, a cradle, CF slot and it can read mp3/ogg/wma, divx/mp4, jpeg and it even comes with some basic PDA applications in it. Comparatively, the MX2020 is currently the most affordable device on the market ($199), for the type of features it offers.