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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Misc

There’s hardly anything more embarrassing that admitting that your company still uses Lotus Notes, but for the millions upon millions (140 million, in fact) of licensed users who’d love the opportunity to check in via their S60-based handset, this one’s for you. Starting next month, Lotus Notes support will be granted for Symbian S60 3rd Edition, meaning that anyone with a fresh S60 device can soon tap into Lotus Notes Traveler and access real-time email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data. On second thought, maybe you shouldn’t be so enthusiastic — leaving work at work is a blessing too many take for granted.

Nokia adds support for Lotus Notes in Symbian S60 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic isn’t precisely in the same league as some of the other high-end touchscreen smartphones hitting the market right at this time, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting the Chinese KIRF love — and we’d actually say the flush-mounted touchscreen on the Li 5800 in this place is an improvement. The generic OS is obviously less attractive than S60 Touch, but not by much, honestly, and although the real 5800 should be pretty cheap on contract, we’ve got a feeling the Li in this place might undercut it significantly. Too bad they didn’t stick a random micro-projector in there, eh?

[Via UnwiredView, thanks Robin of Loxley]

Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXV: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic gets a little friend originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: HTC, Android

Teardown specialist iSuppli is at it again, digging through the G1’s guts this time around in an effort to wrap its inquisitive brain around the inaugural Android handset’s bill of materials. The result? $144, which naturally doesn’t reflect HTC’s R&D — an additional expense that might have been unusually low for the G1 considering HTC’s overwhelming expertise in manufacturing all things mobile. For the record, this is about $30 less than iSuppli’s July estimate for the 8GB iPhone 3G, though the comparison isn’t terribly fair considering that the G1 has a mere pittance of internal storage by comparison. There’s no telling what T-Mobile pays HTC for each and every G1 it sells, but we pay $179 (or less) on contract — so it seems HTC is making itself a nice little profit right out of the gate and customers aren’t footing much of the bill. At least, not until they’ve gone a few months into their two-year agreements.

iSuppli says T-Mobile G1 costs $144 to make, nothing to love originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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