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A reliable source has provided PalmInfocenter with some new details on Palm's upcoming fall handheld releases.

Nokia has announced the availability of a new push e-mail solution. The Nokia Business Center software can work on any Java MIDP 2.0-capable phone that has been certified by Nokia, including the Nokia 9300 smartphone, 9500 Communicator, 6630, 6680, 6681, and 6682.

Episode descriptions and cast biographies of one of the most popular sci-fi series ever are here. For PalmOS, freeware.

You can download it for free and use until November 15, 2005. Apart from many other improvements this version 3.3 supports fully VGA displays (640x480 pixels).

A review of one of the best feature-phones of 2004, the K700i. Elsewhere, infoSync reviews the Sony Ericsson K608i.

The sale of PalmSource may consummate the marriage of Linux and the Palm OS, but it won't kill off the operating system that helped create the PDA market.

Microsoft's operating systems for mobile phones are traditionally divided into two directions represented with a PDA version (Pocket PC) and a smartphone one (MS Smartphone). In fact, the smartphone version is even simpler than for Pocket PC.

PalmSource, the company responsible for developing and licensing the Palm OS, has been bought by Japan-based ACCESS Co., Ltd. Palm users probably familiar with ACCESS as the developer of the web browser NetFront.

TCL Mobile Communications (TMC) has used embedded Linux to build a high-end dual-band GSM/GPRS smartphone. The e787 features a 2MP camera, Bluetooth, multimedia players, an Internet phonebook feature, PC synchronization, and a document viewer from Picsel Technologies.

"I'm betting that the future of mobility will be Linux, and not Symbian, Windows or anything else." Read the editorial here.