Doug posted the other day, well yesterday, “Is the Palm Pre 2 coming sooner than we think?”, woe and behold, this rumour seems to be getting fleshed out. seems like the second Web OS phone is going to have a form factor like the Treo, albeit with anorexia. A super slim Treo form Palm smartphone with an unconfirmed model name has appeared in the last couple of days, and it’s gone from blurry pics to quality pics to specs.

From Engadget Update: Oh boy — looks like we just got the full spec list. And yes, it’s definitely coming to AT&T (if it’s really coming).

• 4GB storage
• Price: $349 (pre-rebate)
• Camera: 2 megapixel fixed focus digital camera and flash / video capture
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 w/ A2DP and EDR, USB 2.0 via micro USB
• Removable 1150 mAh battery (4 hours 3G talk time)
• Messaging: SMS, MMS (picture and video only), integrated IM client
• Contact sync with AT&T Address Book
• MediaNet
• Cellular Video
• Email: POP3, IMAP4, and EAS support
• A-GPS
• Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, AAC+ ringtones
• Video Playback: MPEG4, H.264, H.263

Quite surprising really, and it’s going to  AT&T, which is really interesting considering all of the Verizon, getting the iPhone and maybe some other Pink device as well. An opportune rumour, it might be said!

In my opinion it only makes sense that Palm put out a device in it’s most successful form factor, some would say “familiarity breeds contempt” but I reckon it breeds comfort. If this device actually comes to pass, it’s very exciting and may herald a step back towards the big league for Palm devices.

Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T?

There’s been a flurry of innuendo surrounding Windows Mobile Seven, in the past two weeks. Let’s look at what we purportedly know, apparently the base theme will be blue… and hopefully a working, stable version will be available to OEM’s early in 2010. So a whole heap of screenshots, well five, have surfaced, and I’ll happily reserve judgement on their authenticity.

I just see some inconsistencies between the shot’s that are surfacing at the moment, but if you were able to take these screenies and distribute them, you’d be working with a beta of the OS anyway. Generally I think it looks hokey, but considering that these may be from someone with a very early release, it’s a possible teaser, to see what sort of reaction this static interface will elicit. Hey, Show me a video, and I’ll be more enthusiastic!

Via Engadget

Yesterday, I was talking about a rumour, today I can tell you it’s a fact, there’s a dell smartphone in the works! This has been rumoured since Dell released the Dell Axim X5, someone said there’d be an X7 converged device, and we were off to the speculation races.

Lot’s of Windows mobile users are affectionate about the Dell Axim, whatever the designation, because they were the most powerful PDA’s for their time, HP were running second best at the time, and Palm had been superseded. 

When Dell stopped support for the Axim in 2007 [Wow! two years ago] the user4 mourning created a wailing wall across many user support sites. Even JAMM grew out of a bunch of Dell axim users networking and getting together!

So when the supposed deity, Michael Dell says yes, we are actually working on a smartphone, it’s big news, or is it!

Michael Dell has reportedly confirmed that his company is developing a smartphone, though he didn’t divulge when this will be available.

The CEO of Dell is on a business trip through Asia, and when speaking in Tokyo said "It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices."

He went on to say:

For the last three years, we have integrated 3G radios into our notebooks. We already have agreements with many mobile carriers around netbook devices, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect that we would have smaller mobile Internet devices or smartphones in the future.

When speaking in Taipei, Michael Dell reportedly went even further, stating that his company’s first smartphones are meeting internal deadlines, and are not delayed, as has been reported earlier.

Considering the fact that the Axim was a HTC built device, and the latest released devices from HTC, what will dictate the necessary specifications for a Dell smartphone, to make it attractive to carriers, let alone users?

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Considering the dominance of Opera Mobile 9.5 on all of HTC’s latest “big hitter” devices, it sort of makes sense that if you were going to release a competing browser, you would want to use one of the power devices like the Touch HD, but it’s not available for the NAM market. So the next big thing would be the Touch Pro.

A few weeks ago I posted about the Alpha 2 release of Fennec,  and did not really expect any news of a windows mobile release this early in the year. Well a post over at WMExperts will warm the cockles of any Touch Pro owners heart. Or Not. Information from the Mozilla Wiki, points in the direction of a February release, but there are plenty of caveats included!

We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro.

We are two patches away from the meta goal of building from trunk. The tools changes have review from dougt, and are waiting for review from ted, who has promised review by the end of the week. NSPR changes are waiting for review from Nelson, who asked for and received a patch against NSPR trunk

So we know what the team is working towards, but nothing has been promised, although when a development team starts talking about release dates, even though you might want to take it with a grain of salt, it seems Fennec is imminent. Well for some of us with HTC Touch Pro’s any way.

Via WMExperts

Mozilla Wiki

Unaccustomed as I am too pointing out the ludicrous, more ridiculous, utterly obvious rumours that appear in the mobile gadget world, I have hit some sort of glass ceiling, that I have to break through on this iPhone Nano thing.

Firstly, if there is actually an iPhone Nano imminent, would you want one ?

Secondly, with the withdrawal of the great Turtleneck, from the Apple keynote at MacWorld, would any one be expecting the announcement of a new device from Apple this January?

Now I know we have seen case manufacturers and component manufacturers, leak new devices in the past, but you have to wonder at XSKN, a Chinese case manufacturer, who produce a range of iPhone skins, firstly leaking something that looks like a a smaller silicone cover, that looks similair to their iPhone range.

Now we see that the cases are available in all of there mocked up glory on the XSKIN web site.

One could conclude, that the device is real, if a company is offering a case for it, and that would probably violate a whole lot of Apple NDA clauses, wouldn’t it, and have been shut down pretty quickly, even considering the language barrier.

So why is this getting so much mileage, from heaps of sites at the moment? Slow news week, overstuffed on Christmas treats? naivety, or all of the above?

I really find myself wondering if XSKIN think they have found a great way to make their site more visible, or if they really  have some inside info, at the moment I’m going with the former. The only other thing I’ll say here is have a look at the wording of the link below, I’m now going to take some time to digest the ramifications of this story, and Christmas dinner!

“where cool is more than just a word” Hello??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

iPhone Nano – iPhone Nano – XSKN – Welcome to XSKN where cool is more than just a word