The Asus Eee PC is the closest thing to a Palm Foleo. It’s small, light, affordable (available for just US$350 in most places) and does not compromise in terms of features. In short, it’s an ideal “smartphone companion”. So how well does it work with a Treo 680?
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We now have a few more clues about the case of the missing 1 million Apple iPhones. In this article from Instat, apparently there are at least 400,000 iPhones in use in China at the end of last year. The information comes from China Mobile, China’s largest carrier. Considering that this number is 10% of total iPhones sold, this is big news indeed. Official talks between Apple and China Mobile have not been fruitful so far. If an unlocked iPhone can sell so well, imagine how an officially supported version would do.
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RIM, maker of the Blackberry series of messaging devices / smartphones, suffered a serious, North America-wide outage earlier this week. The much-publicised outage garnered a lot of media attention. The three-hour outage is the second one in two years for RIM, and has frustrated Blackberry users who depend on the service.
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It’s been a very eventful week for mobile industry. The entire saga of Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo! is primarily about eyeballs, advertising and getting a (bigger) foothold in the mobile world.
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