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Along with the iPhone 3G Apple has announced the forthcoming availability of the 2.0 firmware update.

The update will be available in the beginning of July charge free, and will feature an enhanced calculator with scientific mode, bulk email move/delete, parental controls, contact search, and the ability to save e-mail photo attachments in the iPhone's photo gallery application.

Alltel and HTC have issued a system update for the HTC Touch smartphone that will upgrade its EV-DO Rev. 0 radio to Rev. A, which allows for faster download and upload speeds. The update will also improve Bluetooth performance and will add the ability to receive video messages.
Go to HTC's support page for the instructions and download link.

Sprint was the first carrier to reveal its plans on upgrading its Windows Mobile 6 handsets.

They intend to do this in Summer, and start shipping new WM 6.1-based phones during the second half of the year.

Currently, Sprint's Windows Mobile 6.0 lineup includes Samsung Ace, Motorola Moto Q9c as well as the HTC Touch and Mogul.

Philips has upgraded its Xenium 9@9 smartphone by changing the ordinary screen to a touch-sensitive one.

But that's not all. This new model, called btw Xenium 9@9v, also features handwriting recognition (why not, when you have a touchscreen?), dual-SIM card support and a hardly believable 1 month standby time.

HTC Advantage fans will be glad to hear this. HTC has unveiled the updated version of its Advantage smartphone at the Mobile World Congress.

Here's a list of changes made:

• 16GB of storage instead of 8GB;
• Different haptic feedback keyboard;
• Opera Mobile 9 Browser;
• Google Maps;
• A new version of VueFLO using a G-sensor that recognizes the screen orientation;
• HTC TouchFLO software for easier finger navigation;
• HTC Home Today screen.

If you're planning to buy a BlackJack for Valentine's Day, you'll be glad to know that Samsung has released a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the handset and made it available for download from the official website.

Now with WM6 BlackJack users will be able to view and edit Office Mobile documents, use Outlook Mobile, and read HTML emails.

Sometimes people are so dumb!

Both Apple and the hacker community warned owners of patched iPhones that the latest upgrade would brick the device, and advised them to wait a bit with upgrading. These warnings were mostly ignored, and now people complain that their handset became inoperable and started loosing data.