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It looks like Verizon finally plans to make the Palm Treo 755p smartphone available to its customers.

If you recall, the device is available for Sprint subscribers for more than 6 months now, and Verizon simply must launch it before Christmas if they intend to generate good sales.

Treo 755p operates on Garnet OS and features 64MB of on-board memory, a 320 x 320 screen, a QWERTY keyboard, 3G support, and a miniSD card slot.

Alltel announced it will soon release the BlackBerry 8130.

The smartphone should be available just in time for the holiday season. Its features include an integrated GPS receiver, a 2Mpix camera, media player, Bluetooth connectivity, a 3.5mm headphone jack, voice recognition, trackball navigation, SureType keyboard and an external SDHC card slot.

The new HTC Touch Cruise is the company's third touch-screen smartphone since the first Touch has been released.

Also known as the HTC Polaris, the device runs on Windows Mobile 6 OS, supports 3G HSDPA network, and features the TouchFLO finger-based interface, navigation wheel, extra shortcut buttons to easily access important features, integrated GPS receiver from TomTom, and a dual camera, including a 3Mpix cam on the back and a front VGA cam for video conversations.

Right after Google has announced its Android OS and the upcoming GPhone there appeared images of the possible look of the company's future handset.

The first Android OS demo unit is called Google Dream, and as you can see on the picture it looks very similar to the old HTC Omni.

RIM and O2 have released the new BlackBerry Pearl 8120 smartphone in the UK.

The device has the same sleek and stylish design as the previous versions and is available in a new Blue finish. Some of its main features include:

• New enhanced UI;
• 2Mpix photo/video camera with 5x zoom, capable of recording videos at 240x180 or 176x144 pixel resolutions;
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.

Here is another WM6-based smartphone from Samsung with a touch-sensitive screen.

The device is called M4650 Multi-Touch and features a 2.8" LCD display, which gives a gentle shake whenever you touch it. However, it doesn't support multiple touches, so don't get fooled by the phone's name.

AT&T is going to release today  the Motorola Q9h Global 3G smartphone.

The device supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band HSDPA 3.6MBps networks, runs on Windows Mobile 6 OS, and features a QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, 2Mpix camera with flash and 7 shortcut keys to frequently used applications.

Palm plans to update their Treo 750 smartphone to be fully compatible with Microsoft System Mobile Device Center 2008 software.

This will allow IT specialists to remotely manage their devices and will give more control over their sistem and functions. In addition, Palm in association with Garmin has developed GPS Navigator software for Palm OS based devices.

T-Mobile has just introduced its latest Windows Mobile 6 based smartphone, called the Shadow.

The device is manufactured by HTC and comes with a SureType keypad, easy to use UI, and a D-pad, also useable as a scroll wheel for navigation through the menus. Some of the features include quad-band GSM/EDGE support, stereo Bluetooth, 2Mpix camera, microSD slot, and Wi-Fi connectivity.

E-Ten has finally officially announced the Glofiish M800 smartphone.

This high-end handset offers most advanced features one can find on devices of this type and can easily compete with giants, such as Nokia N95.

Among updated features there's a 640 x 480 resolution touch-screen as well as touch-sensitive physical controls located just below the display.