Project PDA

Samsung aims at FPD International 2008, a trade show for manufacturers of flat screens, an ultra-thin OLED display before. It impresses with a depth of only 0.05 millimeters, so it is half as thick as a human hair. The display was previously thinnest of Sony in April 2008 display at the exhibition presented in 2008 in Japan and was 0.2 millimeters thick.

The top model HTC Touch HD was in Germany initially sold exclusively at o2.  The Munich-operators today announced that the smartphone from mid-November for about four weeks may offer exclusively. Then there were also the other mobile providers in the market. The selling price without a contract amounts to 570 euros, in conjunction with the rate Genion L cost the HTC Touch HD almost 290 Euro. There is a microSD memory card with 8 gigabytes, a navigation software is not included

The Taiwanese electronics manufacturers Asus, mainly through the small Eee PC is known, is expected in spring 2009 its first smartphone with the mobile operating system Android OS on the market. The magazine reported the industry and refers to people from the company. The phone could begin in Taiwan under their own brand names in the trade and later worldwide in various specialty versions on other providers will be sold.

Motorola focuses more on the integration of Android OS than previously suspected. The new head of Motorola's mobile division, Dr. Sanjay Jha, was already during his time at Qualcomm is a strong supporter of Google's operating system, he is now engaged in the mobile phone manufacturer posted for Android. Recently, it was still in business circles, Motorola should only work on a mobile phone with the mobile operating system.

The smallest German operator o2 now sold Nokia N79. The smartphone will be without binding contract for 360 euros offered with a Genion-L-contract it costs 60 euros. Nokia N79 was announced for October and quantified the net, to 350 euros. The successor of the Nokia N73 comes with two additional Xpress-On covers exchange extradited, to Nokia packs a microSD card with 4 gigabytes of storage in the delivery box.

Altell announced the introduction of the Wafer, not quite as thin as the Moto Q, yet still one of the thinner mobile phones on the market.  You can pick your device from shopalltel.com or one of your local Alltel retail stores.  Here is a blurb from the press release:

Looks like mytreo.net and Gx5 are teaming up to give away a Treo 755 smartphone!  All you have to do is design a background image with Dial by Photo.  Here is what mytreo.net said:

Today AT&T announced an update to the Cingular 8525, although it wasn't the highly anticipated upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.  Nonetheless the ROM Upgrade announced on HTC's website will probably make your device a little less buggy and the like.  Actually, we don't know for sure what this update will do because netiher AT&T nor HTC published that information.

Today Planttonics announced that it will be introducing the Pulsar 260 Stereo Bluetooth Headset to the United States at the CITA Wireless Trade show in Orlando, FL at the end of March.

Here is a web round up of the latest mobile reviews:

On Monday Cisco introduced a family of devices that utilize Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, which are being marketed with the name “iPhone”. Cisco claims to have owned the trademark to the iPhone name for over a decade and that it has plans to use the name in its longer term strategy for created networked homes.

The problem, of course, is that the name “iPhone” has been touted by the media to be the name of the rumored iPod Cell phone project that Apple might be working on. In fact, Apple owns the domain name iphone.org, and has even filed for trademarks on the name overseas.

HP is gunning to be the only one in the Pocket PC market with a number of devices available. HP has introduced the rx4240 and rx4540 Mobile Media Companions today. The Pocket PC devices run in landscape mode by default. They include 2.8" 320x240 pixel screens with 400 MHz Samsung processors. The rx4240 includes 128 MB ROM and the rx4540 also includes 1 GB of flash storage. Both devices include SD, 802.11g, and Bluetooth. Currently the devices are only offered in Japan, but it is rumored the devices will be announced in the US in a couple weeks.