N900 pre-order…for 599 Euro.

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Official: N900 available October for 500 Euro.

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Weekly News Digest for August 26th

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Nokia Booklet. Specification Update. Price. Thoughts on Battery life / Performance.

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Hot and Not. Keywords in Mobile Computing.

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Touchbook Owner Talks about Build Quality Issues.

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N900 Outed in Proto Expose.

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Is the CrunchPad the next HTC Shift?

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Viliv X70 EX Patch enables Voice/BT and Wifi/3G

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Moblin. Smooth, Slim and in need of an App store.

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Gartenberg’s Rule of Three.

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Crayon Physics Deluxe video demo [touchscreen friendly game]

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FINALLY, the Disney netbook is here!

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