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Palm Treo 800w set to launch July 22, 2008

According to WMExperts, Sprint will be releasing the long-rumored Treo 800w on July 22 of this year.  This announcement comes after many months of speculation and a plethora of rumors around the web.

If the specs turn out to be accurate, this will definitely be a sweet device, and by far the best Treo yet.  This new device will replace the aging 700wx.  Once again,  Verizon has missed the boat on a new launch of a smartphone....sigh.

Here are highlighted the specs:

• Threaded SMS (looks to be the Palm type, not Microsoft's)
• WM 6.1
• Autonomous GPS
• KB is larger than the Centro, slightly smaller than the 750/755
• KB keys still light up
• It's very fast with no lag
• 320x320 resolution
• EvDO Rev A (though some tester units are not Rev A active as of now)
• Wifi
• 256/128 Memory
• Official color: Charcoal Black

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What T-Mobile Buying Sprint!!!

Remember a while back I posted a message about the inevitable future of Sprint. Well, you may see T-Mobile buying the fledling wireless carrier very soon. I doubt the Nextel piece will be spun off but you never know. Maybe former CEO Tim Donahue wants his company back. Especially after all the Sprint management BOZO's ran the place inot the ground.  Of course it is all speculation but when the stock starts going up that usually means some truth the rumors. There really isn't any other reason for the stock to rise since all Spint' s customers are leaving.  Stay tuned! 

Chevron Cashes In On You! $5.17 billion Record Q1 Profit

While you're going broke trying to get back and forth to work, Chevron Oil is raking in the cash, and I mean raking.  They have posted their 1st qauter profits that sing to the tune of $5.17 billion.  That's profit folks, profit.

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Pics Of The Gigantic Squid

Unfortunately, the photos that have been taken of the Gigantic Squid that was "caught"  off the coast of Antarctica in February 2007, don't give a good perspective on how huge this thing really is. 

You may remember I posted the other day about it's 11 inch eye.  Although the pics are sharp and give a good look at the beast, they don't demonstrate it's full 26 foot glory.

So, as you check the pics, think of it this way.  Clone Shaq, and put the second one on the 1st Shaq's shoulders.  Then hoist Mini-Me up onto the 2nd Shaq's shoulders and imagine something like that with two 11 inch eyeballs coming at you.

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Throw Baby From The Roof

This video is basically unbearable, but by all means, go watch it.

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Poll: Will A Blackberry Clamshell Be The End Of Palm?

This game changer that looks to be introduced to the world by T-Mobile possibly by September 08 is without a doubt going to be a HUGE hit.  It's got WiFi, and the whole Blackberry deal on a flip phone.

The second coming of the iPhone will be 3G and boast a new look and new apps.  There will be a lot happening in the mobile world over the next five months, while Palm has introduced nothing.  Yeah, there's a new Treo out there, but no one really cares.  A new WM Treo is not going to make the earth shatter anywhere.

But this "KickStart" has already made a few buildings tumble.  So here's a little something to consider over the weekend.

Will the Blackberry KickStart be the end of Palm?   Take the Poll in the Sidebar.  We'll talk results Monday.

More Blackberry "KickStart" Info & Photos

This one continues to amaze and perplex.  Where did it come from and how did one guy get all that darn info on such a valuable prize?  No matter, what's important here is that this thing is real and it's going to kick some serious butt when it hits the streets, and it looks as though it may hit the streets via T-Mobile first.

Specs as laid out:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
"Next Gen" SureType keyboard
2 Megapixel camera
16-bit color LCDs
Internal LCD is 320×240, external one is 160×128
Wi-Fi b,g
3.5mm headset jack
OS is 4.6

Yes, I think that's "WiFi" on a fliphone.

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India Tells RIM "NO" Again

The IB, India’s Intelligence Bureau has squashed a proposal by RIM to that would decompress Blackberry information sent to non-Blackberry devices.

"RIM had offered this solution because, data on RIM network flows with the 256-bit advanced encryption standard, but India’s security agencies can intercept only 40-bit encryption. Intelligence agencies however justified the move to reject the RIM offer on the grounds that this would amount to breach of privacy: “The proposal was not agreed to by the IB as this leaks the information regarding the person whose information is being intercepted,” the DoT said in a communication to the Canadian High Commission in India. " --- IndiaTimes -

And it continues on in India.

New 3G iPhone Photos Hit The Web!

Well it looks as though we have our first leaked images of the new 3G enabled second coming of the iPhone.  Via Engadget who got the pics from a French blog, who got the pics from a unnamed source, we see images of what is hard to discount as real, even given Apples tight security.  (Leave it to the French to find a way).

At the moment, I don't like it but it will most likely grow on me. 

Google Updates And Integrates Apps For The iPhone

I'm always amazed when Google spends time updated and working on products for the iPhone. When Android hits the street it will be in a heavy fight with the iPhone, or maybe they simply feel their coming product will be so superior that they are in no way worried.

What ever the case, until then Google has updated the interface for Google Apps on the iPhone. 

"Gmail – To run Gmail as a fast web application, visit mail.google.com/a/your-domain.com in Safari on your iPhone, but remember to replace "your-domain.com" in this address with your actual domain name.

Alternatively, you can connect to your Gmail account with your iPhone's Mail application, using IMAP for free.

Google Calendar – To run Google Calendar as a fast web application, visit calendar.google.com/a/your-domain.com in Safari on your iPhone, but remember to replace "your-domain.com" in this address with your actual domain name.

Google Docs – To run Google Docs as a fast web application, visit docs.google.com/a/your-domain.com in Safari on your iPhone, but remember to replace "your-domain.com" in this address with your actual domain name."

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