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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

So Nokia has officially launched the beta process for an app it clearly calls “Email,” a replacement for S60’s in-built Messaging application for managing — you guess it — email. Besides a true push service and a slightly slicker interface than what we’re used to, it doesn’t seem to offer terribly much that the standard client doesn’t, and what’s more, it sounds like Nokia intends to charge for the pleasure of using it once it exits beta. It’d better be crazy cheap, crazy impressive, or preferably, a combination of the two by the time it launches — otherwise, Messaging will continue work just fine for us, thankyouverymuch.

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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

So Nokia has officially launched the beta process for an app it clearly calls “Email,” a replacement for S60’s in-built Messaging application for managing — you guess it — email. Besides a true push service and a slightly slicker interface than what we’re used to, it doesn’t seem to offer terribly much that the standard client doesn’t, and what’s more, it sounds like Nokia intends to charge for the pleasure of using it once it exits beta. It’d better be crazy cheap, crazy impressive, or preferably, a combination of the two by the time it launches — otherwise, Messaging will continue work just fine for us, thankyouverymuch.

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

In this culture of instant gratification, it’s comforting to know that there’s at least one source out there for Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 well ahead of the official release. An eBay auction expiring this Saturday is offering up (or claiming to, anyway) the opportunity to be the first kid on your block with that sleek, sexy bundle of metal and Windows Mobile — if, of course, the price is right. it seems like a sale price well above $1,000 is a foregone conclusion at this point, and there’s no guarantee that the auction is even legit, so you’d better really want an X1 more than the next guy before plunking down that kind of cash for a prototype. We’ll wait, thanks — not because we’re patient, but because we’re not old money. at this time excuse us while we go sob quietly to ourselves in that corner over there, okay?

[Thanks, ginger.al]

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