Summer soap opera: The 'Smart' age

It’s been pretty quiet in the smartphone release mill lately, in preparation for the summertime blitz of new phone launches - to be led off by the Palm Pre. Following the Pre will be the third-generation iPhone, Samsung's Google Android-based i7500, and Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. That means more competition in pricing (more crowded market = thinner margins), hardware features (more OSes in the game) and carrier plans.

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  Palm Pre has a date and a price

  Larry Dignan: Sprint Nextel and Palm have made it official: The Pre is landing June 6. The highly anticipated phone will be available in Sprint Stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack and a few Wal-Marts for $199.99 with a two year contract.

  Gallery: Palm Pre device running Palm Web OS
  Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smart
  Report: Google Android to grow 900 percent in 2009

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  First impressions of HTC Touch Diamond2

  Matthew Miller: There is really nothing limiting the Touch Diamond2 from performing any function possible on a mobile phone. It supports MMS, video capture, a multitude of Bluetooth profiles, GPS voice navigation, touch and stylus input, and much more.

  Gallery: HTC Touch Diamond2 first impressions
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  Apple teaches iPhone 3.0 new tricks

  Special Report: Apple packs 100 new features and 1,000 new APIs into this update of the iPhone and iPod Touch OS. The iPhone 3.0 will ship this summer and be free to all iPhone 3G customers.

  Gallery: iPhone 3.0 new features
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  2nd generation Android phones battle it out with iPhone

  Ed Burnette: By the end of this summer, users will have three Android powered cell phone models to chose from instead of just one. Joining the venerable HTC Dream (aka the T-Mobile G1) will be the HTC Magic (May) and the Samsung I7500 (June).

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  Clash of the Touch Titans summary; which device is my favorite?

  Matthew Miller: It's a showdown among the iPhone 3G (iPhone 3.0 OS), Palm Pre (WebOS), HTC Magic (Google Android), RIM BlackBerry Storm (BB OS 4.7), Samsung OmniaHD (S60) and the HTC Touch Diamond2 (Windows Mobile). And the winner is ...

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  iPhone 3.0 3G vs Samsung OmniaHD S60 device
  iPhone 3G 3.0 vs. Palm Pre
  iPhone 3G 3.0 vs HTC Magic Google Android
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  RIM beats Apple in quarter

  Sam Diaz: From what the numbers show, RIM’s buy-one-get-one-free Blackberry promotion was a first quarter smash, sending consumer sales figures skyrocketing past the competition - namely, the iPhone.

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  Image Gallery: Palm Pre device running Palm Web OS

  Today at CES 2009, Palm stole the show and showed that they indeed can again become the leader in the mobile space with the revealing of the Palm Web OS and Palm Pre device. The Pre is designed for those of us who want work and play access on a single device without having to work hard to actually use the device. The Pre will be coming to Sprint first in the first half of 2009 so stay tuned and enjoy the product photos.

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