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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets

Dell Latitude D620

• Refurbished or new? comparision of 5 notebooks (Laptop)
• See more new reviews at: Cnet / ZDnet, Laptop Magazine, Notebook Review, PC Pro (UK), & Trusted Reviews (UK)

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Handhelds, Smartphones & Accessories

General Handheld News

How to upgrade your smart phone (PC World)

Apple iPhone due in 2006 or never? (PC Mag)

Fujitsu-Siem. Pocket Loox N520: cheapest rugged PDA (MobileMag)

HTC unveils 2006 U.S. lineup (Phone Scoop)

Kyocera preps WiFi/CDMA phone (MobileMag)

LG previews new phones (PhoneScoop)

Magellan adds more Roadmates (MobileMag)

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Motorola A1200

Mago previews Windows Mobile 5.0 phone (The Unwired)

Motorola's newest RAZRs push music, color (Engadget Mobile)

Motorola launches A1200 PDA phone in China (Akibahara News)

Nokia previews new handsets (InfoSyncWorld)

Nokia N93 pics & details of unannounced N73 (Engadget Mobile)

Palm Treo 'Lowrider' alleged photos (Treonauts)

Samsung preps Blackberry-enabled phones (InfoSyncWorld)

Samsung SGH-D300 business phone flips both ways (Mobile Mag)

TabletKiosk preps Ultramobile PC (MobileMag)

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Tech Faith Wireless previews Windows Mobile phone lineup (Engadget Mobile)

Carrier or Country-Specific News

Cingular adds BlackBerry enabled Nokia 9300, without WiFi (PDA Street)

Sprint Nextel LBS service to help customers "find it" (Wireless Week)

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New Accessories News & Reviews

WD announces 6 GB USB drive (The Register)

• Kensington 120-watt AC/DC adapter & Voxred Turbo Charge phone charger (ComputerWorld)
• Top rated Bluetooth headsets (InfoSync World)

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• New & updated BlackBerry & J2ME software
• New & updated Symbian software
• New & updated Palm & Windows Mobile software

• Ilium Software's eWallet Pro v4.1 rates 4.5/5 (Pocket Now)
• Phraze-It on-screen keyboard rates 4/5 (PDA Buzz)
• SlingPlayer Mobile TV beta (ClintonFitch)
• SlingPlayer Mobile, but only works on Sprint EV-DO or WiFi (PDA Geek)
• SlingPlayer Mobile beta rates 3.5/5 (Pocket Now)

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets

Field Surveys: U.S. Census Bureau orders 500,000 Win Mobile phones; describes plan (ComputerWorld)

Healthcare: Wireless transmission of ECGs saves lives (ZD Net / PC Magazine)

Healthcare: Wearable camera & PDA can tell autistic users if they're boring people (New Scientist Tech)

Law Enforcement: West Yorkshire police get BlackBerrys to access criminal database (The Register)

Supply Chain: iTrak's PDA software uses RFID to offer a wider view of a shipping area (Food Production Daily)

Transportation: Wireless tech helps trains run on autopilot (Unstrung)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Mobile / Wireless Trends & Analysis

Applications: Datamonitor, Informa predict different futures for mobile TV (vnunet)

Companies: Interview with RIM's David Heit: "it's not about email" (Unstrung)

Companies: Palm: past, present, future (PDA Street)

Handhelds: Ten years on, revisiting Palm's first Pilot (Cnet)

Law: Lessons learned from NTP-RIM (ComputerWorld)

Operating Systems: Access Linux Platform shown at LinuxWorld (Palm InfoCenter)

Operating Systems: Is Palm building their own Linux OS? (PIC)

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Developer News

Intrinsyc's Win CE feature phone development platform gets a boost (Windows for Devices)

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Cellular

Access: Air France to allow cellular data service (IDG)

Access: EU wants to halve mobile roaming fees (IDG)

Security: Dual mode phone security (IT Manager's Journal)

Users: China hits 400M mobile subscribers (IDG)

Users: Poll: U.S. carrier loyalty is not common (InfoWorld)

WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

Access: Best WiFi hotels / worst Wi-Fi hotels (Hotel Chatter)

Access: 5 years for nationwide WiFi? (GigaOm)

Standards: Bluetooth SIG aligns UWB's future with WiMedia Alliance (Wireless Week)

Technology: Wi-Fi phones still rough in quality (AP)

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