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Great news from the folks over at news.softpedia.com as they have reported an announcement from Orange UK that it has managed to secure an exclusive. The deal is for the exclusive distribution of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 in the country. It is the first device to be released by the Japanese - Swedish handset vendor with the Google Android operating system and we can expect to see it in both black and white from Orange from April.  

You may remember last year that the Taiwanese mobile maker HTC Corporation promised that it would offer its Sense experience to more of its users out there. Now it has been reported over on news.softpedia.com that that seems to have happened. As now HTC have made the solution available for those of you that are lucky enough to own either a Touch Pro2 or a Touch Diamond2 device.  

If you are thinking about getting a protective film for your mobile phone you'll want one that can stand punishment, and the manufacturers of Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film wanted to show just how good their protective film is. So to that end they took a Nokia N97 mini smartphone wrapped it up in the Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film and set about dragging the smartphone from the back of a vehicle at 35 miles per hour. Although the film isn't intended for such rigorous usage it is supposed to withstand drops o  

Palm has been suffering quite a bit lately what with the apparent slow demise of their webOS smartphone saviours. But let's be honest, Palm has done itself no favours when it comes to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. Launching the Palm Pre late meant it clashed with the arrival of a new iPhone which turned out to be a bad move then the awful marketing with those rubbish boring adverts, the ages it seem to take to get the smartphones with Verizon didn't help either and now a delayed launch on AT&T . Lower t  

Leading mobile phone provider Samsung Mobile (Samsung Telecommunications America) announced recently the launch of a new ad campaign for one of its most popular handsets on the United States market, the Samsung Omnia II. According to the company, the campaign, which features celebrity athlete Lamar Odom, started on Thursday, March 18. At the same time, the company notes that the campaign is set to be aired during the College Basketball Championships via local CBS television stations and websites.

Samsung Mobile found Lamar Odom a natural fit for our ad featuring the premium capabilities of the Samsung Omnia II with Swype technology for faster texting. Lamar is a remarkable athlete who is on the rise, just like the Samsung Mobile brand   -Paul Golden

 

The new update applies to both the free and paid version. If you downloaded it through App World, you should get a notification from App World or from the gwabbit site itself. New improvements include:  

(Los Angeles Times (CA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Mar. 20--After nearly two decades of putting cutting-edge personal electronic devices in the hands of consumers, Palm Inc.'s grip on survival may finally be slipping. The smart phone maker's stock plunged nearly 30% on Friday after several Wall Street analysts offered grim assessments of the company's future. "They might be going bankrupt," said Vitali Savitski of Canaccord Adams, who urged investors Friday to sell the stock after making a highly unu

Our recent underperformance has been very disappointing to me personally and to the entire Palm team   -Jon Rubenstein

 

ReplaceAds, the large network of audio, video, and display ad inventory in the fast increasing Internet radio business, announced on Friday the launch of a new mobile advertising platform. According to the company, it already generates over 250 million mobile advertising impressions per month, as it has more than 2,000 radio stations, which are available on a wide range of smartphones. At the same time, the company also notes that the impressions can be filled either with video, or audio, or display ads

Mobile audio and video streaming is growing at a phenomenal rate. Our new mobile monetization platform allows broadcasters to quickly grow their mobile revenues and for advertisers to easily and cost effectively reach our affluent, and highly engaged mobile audience   -John Williams

 

The consumers' association Which? is warning that people going abroad with smartphones can still face huge bills if they connect to the internet. By 1 July, new rules will come into force in the European Union which will cap bills for downloading data. But, until then, people travelling in Europe could face unlimited bills.

Mobile phone companies should voluntarily take these very sensible steps, and apply them on a worldwide basis   -Matt Bath

 

Leading on-demand transcription service SpeakWrite announced recently the launch of a mobile application aimed at users of an iPhone, Blackberry or Android-based device. According to the company, the new software solution is meant to offer users a new way to upload dictations, conversations, speeches, photos and other material. SpeakWrite already offers its 35,000 customers the possibility to receive professional transcripts sent by email in about three hours, and now they can use more methods for recordi