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If you don’t have a need for a physical keyboard — or you’re just not willing to wait long enough for the Vivaz Pro to come to market — then you might want to take a gander at Sony Ericsson’s plain-Jane Vivaz now that it’s available from Vodafone in the UK. The Symbian -powered slate features a 3.2-inch WVGA display, 8.1 megapixel still camera, and 720p video capture with continuous autofocus — a truly unique feature for a cameraphone ..read more

Maemo 5 didn’t stand on its own for long before being mashed together with Intel’s Moblin, but Nokia’s N900 still stands as one of the best handhelds for web browsing.

Originally posted here: How would you change Nokia’s N900?

Sprint got punked a bit when Verizon swooped in and scored mobile programming from the NFL , but they were awfully quick to hit back today with the announcement that they’ve just added ESPN Mobile TV into the Sprint TV mix — granted, they’re just playing catch-up to Verizon’s VCAST TV service, but Sprint TV’s got considerably wider distribution through the lineup, so this could be perceived as a bigger win. The companies are touting over 100 live events ..read more

We hate to turn your entire world — nay, your very belief system — on its end, but it’s at least conceivable here that the so-called Nokia Mystic with the portrait QWERTY keyboard may not be the upcoming C6 after all. Instead, Tom’s Guide is submitting this bright white exhibit as the device lucky enough to wear the C6 name, a phone that looks a whole hell of a lot like a 5230 with a QWERTY slider tacked on ..read more

This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but Android Central seems to have obtained a screen shot from a deep, dark, top-secret Verizon system that indicated that the upcoming CDMA version of the Nexus One will be “available only through www.Google.com/Phones.” That, of course, matches T-Mobile’s strategy of quietly letting Google do its thing — and Verizon’s strategy of keeping its network “open” — so you’ll just have to remember to not line up at your local store ..read more