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With the current craze and hype over 3G, MobileBurn has finally got their hands on a Motorola E1000 for a test drive. The E1000 is one of the earlier 3G phones, launched by Motorola last year. The E1000 is a Dual Mode phone, featuring WCDMA (2100Mhz) and tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900Mhz) operation. The E1000 is capable of switching automatically between bands and modes.

After MSMobiles had published HTC Chart, HTC Roadmap and photo of the HTC Prophet Pocket PC phone from this roadmap, here come photos of 2 another phones from this roadmap.

If you happen to have Nevo bundled with one of your iPAQs, you'll know how functional and slick the program and its GUI really is. Now Nevo Remote 2.0 is available as a separate purchase through Handango for $12.95. This is an excellent piece of software.

Access Co Ltd, a mobile browser and content delivery developer that recently acquired PalmSource, has acknowledged that the unit's Palm operating system has a limited future. Access instead appears ready to focus on Linux-based offerings, suggesting that Linux development opportunities were the reason behind its purchase of PalmSource after all.

"Convergence" seems to be the key element of all new cellphones, even the ones that are not in the "smartphone" category: they all playback mp3 for example. Its obvious that convergence will move even further: music and video players will eventually give in much of their marketshare in favor of a one-device-does-it-all type of informational/entertainment/communication product.

BargainPDA reviews the HP rx1950 Pocket PC PDA. This proves to be a great PDA, apart from the lack of Bluetooth and the very bad location of its IrDA port.

The most popular PDA web browser, AvantGo, today announced the beta release of new RSS features in its mobile Internet service. If your phone or PDA doesn't have an AvantGo client port, you can always use the web-based version through any other browser.

Three new phones from Nokia (1, 2, 3) are taking the baptism of being "fashionable" before anything else. They look good, although the "pen" version is somewhat controversial if it is usable or not.

In the summer of 2005, Spring and PalmOne released a firmware upgrade that allows a Treo 650 smartphone to function a Bluetooth modem for Internet access. Read GuruLabs' guide on how to configure both a Fedora Linux box to connect and use Treo 650's Bluetooth DUN connection.

The Mobile Linux Initiative working group is on a mission to maximize the market opportunity for Linux-based devices. MontaVista Software, Motorola, PalmSource, Trolltech, and Wind River are among the first members to participate in MLI.