Around SPE for 22 Feb, 2009

It'southward been quite a week for SPE, we wrapped up a bootload of alive coverage of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. With details on Windows Mobile 6.5, the new HTC Magic Android telephone, the new Ovi Application Store at Nokia Experts, and even a sneak preview of a GPS App for the iPhone, nosotros were chock full of breaking mobile news.

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Speaking of giveaways, time is running out for your chances to win a Nokia N85 or E71 at Nokia Experts, so be certain to head over and larn how to enter this week.

Android Central

This was a big week over at Android Central because MWC brought new devices, new features, and so much Android news. The biggest news of the calendar week had to have been the announcement of the HTC Magic--a corking looking, full touchscreen device--the Android device that many accept been waiting for. We got our easily on it and came away pretty impressed. Y'all can grab up on all of Android Central's MWC coverage here. What was arguably more exciting for electric current Android users is that paid applications are now available in Android Market place! The quality of apps accept literally grown overnight! Games similar Guitar Hero and apps similar Quickoffice are already on the Market with many more exciting apps to come.

Nokia Experts

This by week Dieter sent in reports from Mobile World Congress, including the new Samsung Omnia Hard disk, the Nokia N86, and Nokia E75 and N97. Though information technology's not as flashy, the nearly interesting MWC news might have been all the details on Nokia's new app store, the Ovi Store. Nokia Experts is still in the midset of their launch competition too, and then exist sure to cheque out your chances to win a new Nokia phone!

PreCentral

PreCentral.cyberspace was also in on the Mobile World Congress action, where Dieter got a chance to go his mitts (barely) on the GSM Palm Pre. We also brought you a Total Palm Pre Feature Roundup and learned that Palm and O'Reilly have begun releasing a ton of evolution data for the webOS. We nonetheless don't have a release date for the Palm Pre pinned downward, but after getting another gamble to see information technology in person (in GSM no less!), we have to say we're starting to get antsy!

The iPhone Blog

While Mobile World Congress tried to ignore our iPhone, Dieter still scored us a pair of eyes-on DocsToGo for iPhone, and Sygic Plow-by-Turn GPS. Google continued their lovefest with editable spreadsheets and an offline Gmail demo. Multicore processors, likely iPhone-bound were as well sneak-peaked, and while Apple was busy wolfing down every scrap of RAM in the world, was the next gen case already leaked?

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TreoCentral

Over at TreoCentral nosotros heard that the Treo Pro might exist bachelor through Bong Canada on Feb 27th for as low as $99.95, with a 3-yr plan. We besides learned that while at MWC, Access announced and demonstrated a broad range of mobile solutions, including Version three.0 of the Admission Linux Platform (ALP), which was announced in Oct. ALP supports "Hollywood-fashion" graphics and add together LiMo (Linux Mobile) support while retaining compatibility for the legacy Garnet Os.

WMExperts

Life at WMExperts concluding week could be summed upward in three words: Mobile World Congress. And our own Dieter Bohn was in that location in Barcelona, Kingdom of spain. The biggest announcement of the event was Microsoft and Windows Mobile 6.5.. HTC besides was there, announcing the Touch Pro 2 and the Touch Diamond 2. Dieter logged a total of 528 miles on the showroom floor and saw too much new stuff to round upwards in this infinite, simply you tin can notice all of the Mobile Globe Congress coverage hither.

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