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THIS DEAL ENDS 3/13 OR SOONER.  Dell is selling the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Phone, unlocked for an unreal deal.  This phone has 850/900/1800/1900 GSM band compability, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.2MP camera, 2.9-inch 640?360 display and micro SD card slot.  There’s much more to this phone, but too much to mention here.

The price, after the coupon is$279.99 – $105 coupon (82K3?W?VS1P7WH) + free ship = $174.99!

Don’t forget Dell’s $105 coupon: 82K3?W?VS1P7WH (expires: 3/13)

But not big enough that you’ll have a hard time carrying it around. The HTC HD2 is easily the best example of the slate smartphone form factor, which is all screen and pretty much nothing else. It’s also the smartphone with the biggest display I’ve ever seen. Nothing I’ve ever used comes close to the HD2’s 4.3 inches of portable visual eye-candy. Few things amaze me nowadays, but seeing HTC pull his off—on a unit that’s barely a centimeter thick—did.

Unfortunately, I have at least one bias against this phone. As someone who never really adapted touch screen keyboards, typing on the HD2’s virtual QWERTY was a bit cumbersome. Tapping keys does provide some haptic feedback, but users who’ve gotten used to physical keys (like me) will take their time typing.

It also takes a while to familiarize yourself with the interface. HTC’s Sense UI is pretty intuitive when you’re browsing the home screens. Just swipe to the left, or to the right, or drag your finger across the icons on the bottom of the screen to access what you need. Navigating menus or looking for applications is another story however, until I realized that, as a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, pushing the Start button was the first thing to do.

The HD2 clearly enjoys the power of its 1 GHz CPU, blazing through every screen I opened, never slowing down. This isn’t a phone I’d buy, but only because I like tapping out text on an actual QWERTY. Still, based on my 10 minutes with the HTC HD2, few phones are as fast and responsive, and no other has a huge 4.3-inch 480 x 800 display. That means a bigger space for fingerprints to land on, so be sure to have a screen protector ready if you buy an HD2!

View the HTC HD2 specs at Spectograph

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Yesterday I received the highly anticpated Nokia N900.  I’m currently charging the phone for a hands on, but here’s a quick unboxing video for your perusal.  The phone ain’t too heavy in the hand, but boy is it thick.  Let’s hope the size pays off in processing power and ease of use.

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Apparently one of the first apps to appear on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Dymo’s CardScan Mobile’s premise is very simple: you take a picture of a business card with your Windows Mobile smartphone’s built-in camera, and it takes care of encoding the text, adding the information to your contact list, and making sure the data is in the correct fields.

While I look for someone who can try out the app on his or her Windows Mobile smartphone, here are some five quick questions answered by Dymo’s PR:

1. CardScan Mobile uses OCR to decipher the text right? Yes.
2. Do your testers have a failure rate regarding text reading? In other words, out of 100 tries, how many times does the software get the text wrong? The characeter-level accuracy is around 96%, but this rate has everything to do with picture quality. So if “100 tries” refers to perfect pictures, it’s high accuracy. If “100 tries” contains some bad pictures, it’s lower accuracy.
3. Which versions of WinMo is it compatible for? CardScan Mobile works on Windows Mobile Smartphones OS 6+

CardScan Mobiel is available from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Price is $15. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to locate the application on the site. Apparently there are problems with WMM, so hopefully by the time we get a review out, we’ll be able to provide a direct link for those who want to buy Dymo CardScan mobile.

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According to sources inside the company , Palm is ready to cash in on the iPhone’s Google Voice rejection nightmare with a full app for the Pre. According to sources within the company , Google has no idea that this is happening.

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According to Reuters, yes , and all because of some slutty-slut-slut Linux OS named Maemo , said to be the company’s new high-end handset platform.

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Here’s a potentially cheap, but ugly, way to make a macro lens for your cellphone camera. Step 1: take your DVD player apart.

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Another Nokia phone, and another extensive preview from Mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin. He says compared to the N97 , the Mini is only “around a centimeter” smaller, its keyboard is worse, and the built-in memory has dropped from 32GB to 8GB

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Planning to skimp on your smartphone’s data plan with AT&T?

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We’ve seen rumors that Sprint would be getting the Android-wielding HTC Hero , but now FCC documents have been released showing that a CDMA version (meaning Sprint-compatible) of the Hero has been approved for sale in the US. In other words, those rumors are looking pretty true at the moment.

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