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Building on the success of the popular Katana family of handsets, Katana LX by SANYO brings a sophisticated look and feel to the Sprint Vision device portfolio. This slim device has an elegant mirrored finish with a translucent OLED LCD glowing through to subtly show time or caller ID. Katana LX by SANYO is family-friendly and affordable offering access to the essential features users need most on their wireless phone. Key features include Web and email access, VGA camera, speakerphone, integrated Bluetooth® technology, and large, colorful internal LCD screen. Katana LX by SANYO is available in three fashionable color options: Pacific Blue, Elegant Pink, and Liquid Graphite.

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Ahead of CTIA WIRELESS 2008, Verizon Wireless, the owner and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, today announced the XV6900 will be available in April through Verizon Wireless business sales channels, at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com. The Verizon Wireless XV6900 is a stylish, compact and versatile touch-screen phone, optimized for easy navigation with the swipe of a finger and runs on Verizon Wireless’ network, which gives the pure white XV6900 fast Internet and e-mail connectivity.

The XV6900 from Verizon Wireless takes touch to the next level with smooth navigation. Whether customers are accessing local weather reports, navigating to the Internet, flipping through photos, or one-touch dialing of loved ones, they can interact with a myriad of the XV6900’s features with just a flick of their fingers.

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Ericsson and Napster announce the largest European hosting contract for Napster Mobile, with O2 UK.

O2 UK’s customers will be able to search, browse, preview and purchase full-length tracks from Napster’s immense catalog of over 5 million tracks and play them on their mobile handsets and PCs.

The Napster Mobile service contains several sophisticated features, including a recommendation engine that makes content recommendations based upon each consumer’s musical taste, and dual delivery, a feature that sends a copy of the content purchased on the handset to the customer’s PC.

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Acer announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire E-TEN, the world-renowned designer and manufacturer of smart handheld devices.

Under the terms of the agreement, Acer Inc. will offer a share exchange with ratio of 1: 1.07 for all the outstanding shares of E-TEN, which represents total equity value consideration of approximately NT$9 billion. The new issued shares will represent approximately 6% of total Acer outstanding shares.

The acquisition has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both E-TEN and Acer and is subject to standard closing conditions, including obtaining approval from Shareholders Meetings and the Governmental Regulators.

We expect the acquisition to close during Q3 2008.

Mobility is in constant evolution. To stay ahead of the changes, the technology and applications must adapt to the true needs of business and consumer users alike.

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AT&T announced a new three-year networking contract with Louisiana-based LAMMICO, a preferred insurer dedicated to developing and delivering insurance products and services to Louisiana physicians and other health care providers.

Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will deliver Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to LAMMICO’s four domestic locations; three in Louisiana and an off-site disaster recovery data center in Denver. The enterprise-class network also provides the flexibility and scalability to expand upon existing services as the company’s communications needs grow. The any-to-any solution, which uses AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, will allow LAMMICO to prioritize and transfer critical data to alternative locations throughout the network. AT&T’s MPLS network also provides high levels of redundancy for network reliability.

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E-TEN Information Systems has unveiled the Glofiish M810 and V900, the first in a new range of Pocket PC Phones focusing on portable entertainment and go-anywhere communications tailored for the web savvy consumer market.

At its booth at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, E-TEN has showcased two new products that mark a change in track for Pocket PC Phones – from productivity and communications tools for mobile professionals to always-on-hand entertainment and connectivity devices designed for the modern web-enthusiast.

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Stylish Simplicity

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We tend to shy away from providing specific shopping advice, as there are already plenty of sites that can take care of you. That said, when a deal like this comes along, we’re happy to spread the news. Woot.com has the Sony UX390 Premium on sale for a cool $1,299. For those that don’t know, the UX390N Premium is, bar none, one of the hottest UMPCs on the market. While we tend to lean towards the OQO Model 02 due to its integrated 3G radio, we think the Sony UX390N is a very, very close second. This is a $2,000 computer, sporting a 1.33 Ghz processor, Windows Vista Business Ultimate, 1GB of RAM, 32GB solid state flash hard drive, 4.5″ touchscreen, and onboard EDGE radio, among many other features. The only real difference between this model and the current UX490N is that the 490 sports a 48GB SSD. These things usually go pretty fast, so if you’re interested we suggest that you head over pretty soon and hit that “buy” button.

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SANYO Katana DLX Features

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