$25. Thats the price you will pay for a brand new Palm Pixi at Amazon on a 2-year contract with Sprint. Having been released just about a week ago this entry-level webOS smartphone will please those customers who are on a tight budget while still being capable of doing your everyday task.

If you didn’t know, the Pixi comes in a candy bar factor, has a 2.6″ capacitive touch screen, a full qwerty keyboard and is a 2 Mp snapper. Connectivity wise you have the usual 3G, GPS and 8 Gb of on board storage though you will have to say goodbye to the WiFi

Ready to live your life with Sprint for the next 2 years then head over to this page

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• Palm Pre Coming Soon to India

Today, we come with great news for many of you. The Nokia N900 will start selling in the USA starting from today. The Nokia N900 has already begun shipping to customers who had pre-ordered it. The N900 is also expected to hit other countries in the coming weeks.

The Nokia N900 will be sold as a sim-free model without any network branding or restrictions at a price of 649 US$ at the flagship stores, retail stores and various online retailers including Amazon. The pre-order price was cheaper at 559 US$. But the Nokia N900 is worth the 649 US$ nevertheless.

Nokia hopes that the N900 will enable it to regain its market share and will fix the errors it made with its recent releases.

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• Nokia don’t Forget to Launch the N900 in India at a Realistic Price
• Nokia N900 starts shipping in Europe, Middle-East, Russia and North America.
• Nokia N900 is Official runs Maemo Linux and might be the Best Nokia Phone Ever

One of the main gripes of Motorola’s latest flagship beast is it’s problem with getting a proper auto focus with its 5 Mp shooter. This has been the case since it’s launch and it now seems, to have been magically(through a silent over-the-air update actually) to have been fixed, until the 11th of December that is.  The strange thing is that according to Dan Morrill, from Google’s Android team, the bug is related to a time-stamp bug:

“According to Google Engineer Dan Morrill, there is an unfortunate bug in the Droid’s auto focus routine. It improperly rounds a timestamp used in the calculations, which somehow throws the entire focusing process off. Today it works, and tomorrow it will work…but 24.5 days from now, the bug will be back.”

Meaning to say that after the 11th December, if you do not update your droid, the camera’s autofocus will automatically go bonkers. But according to Verizon’s 5 page treatise on the Droid’s known issues, their firmware update will be coming with a permanent fix which should solve most of the droid’s software related bugs.

Still, its a little creepy in the way how the Droid got updated so silently and without the knowledge of the consumer. But for the year of 2009, were there an award for the weirdest bug, this auto-focus bug would surely win it…

Sources:

TechCrunch, Engadget

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Ranesh was a Nokia fan for a long time and had owned few Nokia’s including an E70. But he made the transition to Verizon for a decent deal on a Voyager two years ago (because he likes qwerty keyboards and that was the only one he liked at the time). Ranesh couldn’t wait for a decent Nokia device to hit the market he liked, so he took the plunge. When he tested out the N97, he was terribly disappointed with the overall OS and decided to hold out for the Christmas season of this year to see what was around the corner and settled on the Motorola Droid running the Android 2.0 OS.

Nokia is readying the release of their flagship handset, the N900. Unfortunately, Nokia posted it’s first loss in 10 years.(We know Nokia Siemens Networks was to blame.) The problem wasn’t lack of phones worldwide but the Chinese “bandit” or known as “shanzhai” manufacturers eating away at Nokia’s bottom line. Several of these manufactures including Shenzhen Evien Co., Ltd., SZ Telstar Co Ltd., T-Link Industrial Development Company Limited, ZTE Corp., Lenovo and Huawei Tech have already infiltrated the Chinese market with a variety of cell phones. This doesn’t include big boys like HTC and Dell, among others that are making a splash into the worldwide market.

Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufacturer but is feeling the confined spaces of the Mobile market more than ever. RIM’s Blackberry (the business mainstay), Apple’s iPhone (of course) and Palm’s Pre (and soon to be Pixi line), have all cut into Nokia’s overall market share. Not to mention Google’s Android is having huge success with HTC building some great quality phones and across other manufacturers too. While still fighting off fierce competition in the high end cell phone range, Nokia has to contend with middle and low end all at the same time. A feat never before performed for his Helsinki, Finland company.

Step in Maemo: Nokia decided to strike back with the flagship N900 which runs its latest OS based off of Linux called Maemo. This new handset is set to change the direction for Nokia in the mid to higher end device range. Nokia began shipments on November 10^th and are expected to hit retailers shortly, for an estimated price of EUR 500 ($746.00 USD).

Will Nokia be able to break through the obstacles of intruders into its once dominant domain? The N900 comes packed with plenty of features WAY ahead of phones in its class: ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of total application memory. widgets, contacts and shortcuts all on the desktop,. Pictures and videos taken with the 5Mpx Carl Zeiss camera automatically are tagged where they were taken, SMS and IM, standard built-in 32 GB storage is big enough to store up to 7,000 songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video, and it can be expanded up to 48GB with an external microSD card.

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The phone is amazing and packs an MMA like punch compared to other phones in the market place at this time, but Nokia will have to bring the beautiful Maemo OS down to the mid and perhaps even lower range handsets to regain what market share has already been lost. If anyone can do this, Nokia can and with the N900, where they proved that they are listening to the consumer.

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Motorola might be on the road to recovery with their new handset. The Motorola Droid which is the company’s first Google Android device and an Apple iPhone Competitor.

The device had tremendous hype even before its release starting with rumours, leaked pictures etc. Now a week has passed since it’s release and sources say that Motorola might have sold as many as 100,000 Motorola Droid phones over the weekend.

Motorola is providing the Droid t customers through the Verizon Wireless network. The sales isnt anywhere close to the 1 million sales the Apple iPhone had in it’s opening weekend. But it is a very good figure for Motorola as it’s been sometime since the company has had a successful product.

The Motorola Droid costs $199.99 with a two-year agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate whereas Apple’s basic iPhone costs $99 with AT&T, while its newer 3GS model costs $199.

Motorola expect a rise in sales and even to hit the 1 million mark very soon.

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iPhone apps are so much fun to use !  There is always something interesting about the new apps on the Apple app Store. I just spotted an app which makes sending a photo as a MMS over AT&T pointless.  The Kocking iPhone app developed by Pointy Heads Software in USA redefines photo sharing on the iPhone.

You can share photos seamlessly over a WiFi or 3G Connection instantly . Heard of screensharing ?

You can share your photos worth sharing to your friend and your friend can even save the images to his phone if he likes it.

Download the app for free from the app store [iTunes Link] Hurry up its free for only the first 50000 users.

Visit http://knockinglive.com for more info about the product

The app currently is out only from iphone , but from the product page a Blackberry version and a Android version is also in the works !

Watch a demo of the app in action in the video below

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The HTC HD2 has finally shown up on the T-Mobile website and according to the website its due to arrive this month so that means that it should be available anytime within 28 days. Funny part is that Coolsmartphone seems to have found some mistakes from the post. Here are a few of them:

• the device is mistakenly called the HTC Touch HD2
• the picture is actually of the original HTC HD
• the device supposedly has ‘Android Market’
• screen specifications are incorrect

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• Video : HTC HD2 vs iPhone 3GS
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Good news ! The hacker who had promised an iPhone unlock for the latest baseband has released BlackSn0w or Blacksnow much ahead of schedule and you can now Download Blacksnow and Unlock your iPhone 3GS for free

blackra1n RC3 is also live for both Windows and Mac!!! Clean firmware 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07 are recommended.

Updates:
Unlock!!!
Hacktivation
Keep legit activation if activated before running app
15 seconds faster, you’ll feel it
Tiger + PPC support

Hit http://www.blackra1n.com/ for the download for windows and mac.

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1. Flight status searches = You can now enter the airline and flight number and get the latest departure and landing times of the respective flight.
2. Live NFL stats = Now you can type a team or player and see all the upcoming games, stats, and scores etc. And while the game is on, you can get real-time updates on the score as well. (U.S. only)
   
3. An Optimized Version for Touch devices = Bing has been now optimized for touch navigation to make the most of your phone, and there is a new feature called “Movies” feature for all the US Bing-ers.  You can search for Movies in your city, and you will see the movies playing nearby, showtimes, overviews, and even trailers and video clips. Note this optimized version works only on the iPhone, Zune HD, T-Mobile G1, Verizon Imagio, and Samsung Omnia. They will be adding support for all the remaining devices over the next couple of months.
   

Looking at these new features, I feel Bing keeps up adding such good features, then it will definitely be in the reckoning for the top mobile search website very soon. What do you feel? Do share your views.

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Nokia have begun to start selling it’s first Notebook, the Booklet 3G. O2 Germany is the first to make the device’s global debut. Pre-orders have begun shipping and stocks should arrive in most shops by mid-November in USA.

In Germany, the Booklet 3G retails at 249 Euros and then 20 Euros monthly for a 24 month plan through O2.

In USA, AT&T is giving the Booklet 3G for 299$ with a two year plan.

So head out to your store and grab yourself one of these if it’s available.

Here is the Nokia Booklet 3G Advertisement:

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