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MojoKid writes “Computex Taipei is brimming with new technologies as usual this year and the first day of the show has proven to be a Tech Geek’s nirvana of sorts. Highlights of the show for the handheld crowed include Gigabyte’s slick UMPC, FIC’s Linux-based Smart Phone, and Asus’ sub-$300 Eee notebook PC shown at an Intel keynote address.”
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MsManhattan writes “High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has unveiled a touch-screen mobile device that offers many of the same features as the iPhone but with an emphasis on business applications vs. entertainment value. The HTC Touch is based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS and features a 2.8-inch touch screen offering access to emails, contacts and appointments. But unlike the iPhone, which will feature large internal flash memory capacity for music and movie storage, the HTC Touch offers a microSD drive, and a 1G-byte microSD card comes with the handset.”
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An anonymous reader writes “Contrary to recent rumors, it’s not Palm’s first Linux smartphone, and no, it’s not a competitor to Nokia’s Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet. Rather, Palm today unveiled the Foleo, which it’s calling a ‘new class’ of mobile device. The device is designed to expand the email, Internet, and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo, by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen. Company founder Jeff Hawkins predicts that the Foleo will be more successful than Palm’s original Palm Pilot, which he designed, and more successful than its current Treo smartphones. He touts its simplicity: ‘Press a button, it’s on. Press it again, it’s off. There are no other modes.’”
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PetManimal writes “Computerworld reviews the Palm Treo 755p, the last Palm device with the Palm OS, and concludes that the OS is going out not with a bang but with a whimper. The article says there are some useful improvements (better integration with Exchange and IM, limited speech recognition, etc.) but ‘nothing that will make you sit back and say “wow.”‘ Palm already has at least one device with Windows Mobile (the 700w) and soon will make a big push to Linux devices, maybe by the end of the year. But the Palm OS, which was top dog for a while back in the 1990s, and is still used by many people who own Palm Pilots or Treos, is going to quickly fade, it seems.”
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