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Due out in time for Christmas, Motorola makes the official unveiling of the 3G-enabled, 2-Megapixel RAZR V3x alongside the also 3G-enabled E1070 and E770v handsets.

Dell has updated its flagship Pocket PC -- the Axim X50v -- with the latest version of Windows Mobile and more memory. Read the 7-part review here.

Sony Ericsson today announced the W900i, a 3G Walkman branded phone. With built-in UMTS, the W900i is the first Walkman branded phone to include 3G data and as such is also the first to support over-the-air music downloads. The phone has also two cameras.

Thanks to the Apple hype machine, Motorola's ROKR E1 was one of the most anticipated mobile phones ever. After 18 months of speculation (ever since it was announced that iTunes would be coming to some Motorola phones) Motorola and Apple debuted the ROKR E1 on the same day as the iPod nano. Besides photos, there is an included video review that shows the ROKR E1 in action.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to connect your Linux laptop to a GPRS service using an infrared-enabled phone. For this article OSNews used a Sony Ericsson K700i phone, a Sony Vaio N505VX laptop (which has an onboard IrDA) running the latest Arch Linux and Cingular's GPRS.

Mobile-Review has posted an early preview of the upcoming promising smartphone, the Sony Ericsson P990.

The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.

For all you .NET Compact Framework developers out there who are still wondering about what's coming up in the next release of Visual Studio and the .NET CF, here is a list of recent articles at Developer.com.

Not so long ago the company of Siemens gave its department of mobile terminals to BenQ, and both approach to marketing and forming a product line has changed since then. The company thought widening its product line it would reach the parity with the leading three makers in the number of terminals, and correspondingly increase its market share soon

This guide is for Mac OS X, the US Cingular GPRS service only (other providers might work out of the box with the phone, others might not at all -- you never know with GPRS) and any of the Linux-based Motorola smartphones like the A760, A780, E680/i etc (they are all identical regarding their 'modem' functionality). OSNews will try to get a GPRS internet connection using these phones as modems and route the connection to Mac OS X via Bluetooth.