Palm just launched a GPS solution for Treo users. The kit is preloaded with maps and a GPS receiver that communicates via Bluetooth with Palm Treo 650, 700w and the 700p. It looks like you don’t have to pay the high price auto manufactures charge to get the optional navigation system with your new car.  [Read more]

Motorola on Wednesday launched its Motorola Moto Q, designed to compete with the BlackBerry and Palm Treo. Verizon is now offering it with a two-year contract at the low price of $199.99. At such a reasonable price, gadget lovers who have shied away from the Treo and BlackBerry due to their high price may be willing to give the Moto Q a try.  [Read more]

Palm’s popular (and controversial) Treo 700w smartphone has made plenty of headlines for its OS (Windows Mobile 5.0) and its glitches, but there’s finally some good buzz flying around about the Treo 700 — Palm is getting ready to launch a version of the smartphone that runs on the Palm OS…and soon.  [Read more]

The super-small (and cool) Qtek 8500 (or HTC STRTrk) is a multimedia-enabled smartphone that will delight both fans of “Razr-sleek” looks and PDA functionality. [Read more]

F-Secure announced today that they will be extending their mobile antivirus tool to Symbian OS 9 — that means any Nokia smartphone, including the upcoming N Series.  [Read more]

Research In Motion has been sued for patent infringement yet again, this time by Visto. As we all know, it hasn’t been two months since RIM finally settled out of court with NTP for upwards of $610 million for — go figure — patent infringement.  [Read more]

Last week, we reported that an updater for Palm’s Treo 700w handheld was available for download from the Palm website. Today, several online publications have reported that the application is no longer available, and in its place stands a decidedly cryptic message. . . [Read more]

Cameras may be a standard on mobile devices these days, but camera phones haven’t ever really been revolutionary. Most of them are grainy 1.3-megapixel underperformers that don’t warrant the sending price of an MMS text to your buddy. ActiveSymbols wants to change the way everyone looks at camera phones and PDAs and revolutionize the mobile industry with its “visual search technology.”  [Read more]

T-Mobile has a new Windows Mobile MDA smartphone in their lineup, and it looks to be a great option for people who just can’t get enough text messaging and e-mail on the go. The MDA (mobile digital assistant) combines standard cell phone functionalities with PDA-type organization and user-friendliness.  [Read more]

After a lengthy wait, there finally seems to be some information coming to light regarding the late launch of Motorola’s fabled Q smartphone…  [Read more]

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Software developer Socialtext has just released a collaborative web (”Wiki”) software for mobile communication devices, cutely titled “Miki” for “Mobile Wiki”.By now I know some of you are thinking, “Uh, great. What the %$#%’s a Wiki?” [Read more]

Verizon’s business-minded yet cool-looking XV6700 smartphone is a step in a different direction from many of the “all work no play” handsets Verizon has until now been churning out. With a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a brilliant display, this is an eye-catching device with all the high-end features you could possibly need in a reasonably priced, attractive business phone. [Read more]

Desktop Rover is a PocketPC application from Neslo Software that allows users to “provide input to and exercise control over” a PocketPC from a desktop keyboard or mouse. This can be done wirelessly or through USB. Desktop Rover also allows users to easily transfer text and images between the desktop and the PocketPC. Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

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Modeo recently announced a new smartphone from HTC that features quad-band GSM, music, and — above all — Mobile TV, one of the hottest new mobile commodities to hit big across the pond. The phone is compatible with GPRS/EDGE and supports 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz — Because of these features, users will be able to download multimedia at surprisingly quick speeds — and play it all back on the integrated media player.  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

GPS is becoming more and more common in the mobile communications market. The Mio DigiWalker 168RS serves both GPS and PDA functions — and well, although the PDA area could use a little help. The model runs on Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (maybe a deal-breaker for those who want the latest Windows Mobile 5.0) and features a 300 MHz Intel XScale CPU with 32MB ROM and 64MB RAM.  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

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Internet search, e-mail, and — uh, everything else giant Yahoo! and popular BlackBerry manufacturers Research In Motion have inked a deal to make Yahoo’s internet services available on the BlackBerry mobile device. The deal includes…  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

Wireless industry observers and analysts have predicted — almost for sure, kind of — that the highly-anticipated Q smartphone from Motorola. The Q was announced last summer, and originally slated to come out earlier this year, but has not yet seen a release date because of twelfth-hour software tests and tweaks. Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

Nokia has today announced that problems with software have delayed the release of the company’s six new highly-anticipated smartphones: the N-Series 91, 71, and 80 and E-Series 60, 61, 71. The E Series (which included the most-buzzed about of them all, the… Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

Reportedly the “smallest wireless LAN PDA available with a phone function”, the Torq P120 is making headlines with its compact design and quad-band GSM/GPRS capabilities. The P120 is quite the full-featured little smartphone, with a 400 MHz Samsung S 3C 2440 processor, 64MB of RAM, 128MB flash memory, and — if that’s not enough — a SDIO/SD/MMC card slot.  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

Love your PocketPC but wish you had a handy weather application that could tie into your desktop and provide you with up-to-the-minute weather reports and forecasts? No? Well, weather you care or not (tee…hee?), you should pick up FizzWeather 2.2 if…  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

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One of the most eagerly-awaited smartphones being prepared for launch, the Motorola Q, apparently has an April launch date according to a promotional page on Motorola’s official website. The Q will be a superthin PocketPC with a QWERTY keyboard and push e-mail. Motorola employees have been calling the Q the ‘RazrBerry’, alluding to its fashion-friendly slim design with all the features of a BlackBerry PDA.  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

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KTF introduced today their new 7.9mm EV-K100, which weighs just over 2 ounces and succeeds by the lengthening and slenderizing of the internal antenna. The phone features an MP3 player, a 1.3-megapixel camera, 165MB of memory, and an embedded e-dictionary with about 333, 000 words.  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

Designed by Russian designer Evgueni Maslov and engineered by UK’s Tancher, Mago has introduced a concept smartphone that redefines sleek and sexy smartphones. The smartphone runs on…  Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

A Treo Central message board has posted scans of what appears to be the upcoming Palm Treo 700p — a Palm OS-based version of the Windows Mobile Treo 700w — with a May 28 target launch date printed beneath it. The poster of the scan claims to have been shown the material at a Sprint store, and was supposedly able to scan it. Read the rest of this entry at pdashopper.net >>

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The FCC approved all four models of Nokia’s E-Series corporate smartphone lineup this month. So when will the phones be released? Soon, according to PDA Street. The E-Series smartphones will run on the Symbian OS and feature push e-mail. A Nokia spokesperson told Reuters earlier today: “We are on schedule and we will begin the shipments this quarter and the first ESeries deliveries will happen this quarter…”  Read the rest of this entry at Pdashopper.net >>

Research in Motion, makers of the famed BlackBerry, have barely gotten over the huge fine - $612.5 Million USD - they paid for infringing on the patents of Virginia-based NTP Inc., and they have already acquired a company ( just this past Friday the company made the announcement) that will help them boost the services they currently offer their customers. Read the rest of this entry at voiptracker500.com >>

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BlackBerry 8700c Phone (Cingular) on sale for $149.99 (when purchased with new service plan). Price after Mail in Rebate: Free

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Motorola RAZR V3 Black Phone (Cingular) now $139.99 (when purchased with new service plan) Get $150.00 from Amazon.com with this rebate when you activate a service plan of $39.99 or higher. Price after Rebate: ($-10.01)

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Sony Ericsson W600i Phone (Cingular): $229.99 (when purchased with new service plan) Get $100.00 from Cingular with this rebate when you activate a service plan of $39.99 or higher. Get $150.00 from Amazon.com with this rebate when you activate a service plan of $39.99 or higher. Total Rebates: $250.00 Price after rebate: ($-20.01)

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According to ZDNet, the much-hyped Palm Treo 700w (and its OS, Windows Mobile 5.0) may not be quite as dreamy as recent Treo customer satisfaction reports have reported. In fact, ZDNet’s David Berlind reports being “very disappointed” with his tester 700w.  Read the rest of this entry>>

In a Brandimensions customer satisfaction survey whose results were made public today, Palm’s popular handheld, the Treo (602,000 of which were sold last financial quarter), scored higher than the BlackBerry (which sold 645,000). Treo scored a 3.61 out of 5, while BlackBerry scored a 3.31.  Read the rest of this entry>>

Find out what CBS News thinks about the BlackBerry 8700c - one of the popular PDAs on the market today. Although Research In Motion (RIM) settled a patent dispute with NTP, a patent-holding company for $450 million in March of last year, RIM still produces and markets the addictive BlackBerry. See what our blogger, Desiree, has uncovered about the review CBS News recently did on the BlackBerry 8700c. Get the 411 at Pdashopper.net.