Three new Sony Ericsson phones

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

Intellisync Acquired By Nokia

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 Released

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.

An interview with the founders of the Linux Phone Standards Forum

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 8.5 for S60

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.

New Linux-based Video Player Surfaces

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.

New Linux phone standards effort in the works

PalmSource, France Telecom's Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to standardize aspects of Linux running on mobile phones.

iGlance - Open Source Communications for Windows

iGlance is a "presence" communication utility for Windows, incorporating push to talk, video, audio and text. It is open source under the OVPL license.

OpenSync 0.18 Released; KDE Co-Operation

OpenSync is a synchronization framework that is platform and distribution independent. It consists of several plugins that can be used to connect to devices (e.g. phones, PDAs etc), a sync-engine and the framework itself. It is capable of synchronizing any type of data, including contacts, calendar, tasks, notes and files. Version 0.18 was released a few days ago and its team and KDE's have joined forces.

Quake III Port for x50v/x51v Released

Chris Rioux of Noctemware has successfully brought Quake III to the Intel 2700g accelerated device, apparently achieving speeds of 15-20 FPS. The embedded 16MB 3D card is to be found on Dell's high-end PDAs Axim x50v and x51v. This is the first "seriously heavy" 3D game to be ported to any PDA (there is a port of older Quake too).

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