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Last week extravaganza Technology Association Annual Wireless, CTIA in Las Vegas, home of the top manufacturers of gadgets shared their latest and best products in the mobility.

While the child has recently anointed poster for Open Mobile Devices, Google Android, was virtually nowhere to be found on the show, the event will feature wall exhibition of more than 1,200 companies wall. And here and there, you can find pockets of two devices, you run applications or open source or Linux open-vendor environments Souce courting developers. We might also consider some of the highlights:

Palm ago

Palm Pre-party software creates a lot of buzz and a lot of excitement with their legacy emulator. Some of the included software is not yet proven Fandango movie ticket and app, SprintTV and Google Maps. Pandora Internet Radio "is a blessing to every music lover. A fast launcher is located in each front of the screen to reveal the young players without interrupting the current task. Another, Nascar, took a strong season as a NASCAR videos, alloy wheels, profiles and rankings, and much more.

Perhaps the most interesting for owners of older Palm software running cost is webOS OS Garnet in emulation software. It runs as a separate application and allows drag and drop installation / usage. Palm provides a key for a simple upgrade to the latest pre snazzier.

The Pre Palm announced earlier this year at CES, the characteristics of a Linux-based webOS, 3.1-inch multi-touch screen of 320 × 480 pixel resolution and a QWERTY keyboard. It is equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 8 GB and a 3-megapixel camera.

Wistron Pursebook

Wistron presented their proof of concept Pursebook running the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. This cute little netbook is running a customized version of Linux with fat ThunderSoft software for office tasks, communication and web-indulgence.

Yes, this paragraph is not the words "Pursebook" Snapdragon "and" Thundersoft. "You're welcome.

Observer status of the keyboard is the first generation instead chiclet-style keyboard used in some models of the current netbook, but overall the unit was easy to use. Others said it has enough energy, enough graphics are very nice, and 8 hours battery life. Prices should start at 299 USD and should be available this year.

NVIDIA Tegra

NVIDIA on the hand, all show-in-one Tegra chip for mobile devices. Tegra, an ARM-based components that are 1080p video output and capable of showing up to 1680 x 1050th It will also be able to IDE drives.

NVIDIA has equipped an HP Mini 1000 cases with a computer-on-a-chip system, used to demonstrate the potential of the Tegra. Its prototype with Windows CE, but NVIDIA also has its own interface, which has been described as something between Android and Mac OS X appearance. Tegra can also support Windows Mobile and Android, and while there was no mention of Linux in particular, a spokeswoman said Tegra technology is very flexible and can easily be used with other platforms. NVIDIA hopes to bring the new chipset market sometime this year at a reasonable price to $ 99 machines.

Nokia E71x

Another small smartphone that has created some interest was the AT & T exclusive Nokia E71x. Like the Nokia E71 is the E71x a very light weight of just 4.5 grams and comes with a 320 x 240 QVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard, 8GB of storage and broadband 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Mark Louison, President, Nokia Inc., said: "The Frugal E71x a multimedia computer for a lot of people are employed, the Internet-on-the-go capabilities in the palm of the hand like."

This thin Nokia comes with an upgrade to Symbian S60 Feature Pack 2 (which apps a "mobile flaunt option in all applications has) and some services from AT & T AT & T Music, AT & T Mail and AT & T Navigator . He even has support for Quickoffice. The best is probably the new reduced price of $ 100 after rebate. Should be AT & T Nokia E71x be available in the coming weeks.



Samsung Mondi

Samsung Telecommunications has to compete the first mobile Internet device, this year presented with the netbook form factor. The main features include WiMAX, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Its touch screen is 4.3 inches with a QWERTY keyboard and optical mouse. It comes with 4 GB of storage, a 3-megapixel camera, TV out and HDMI.

The Mondi with Opera 9.5 for Internet access. The device should have not been announced this summer are available, although the price ranges.

Speaking of opera, they were on site and the transfer of your current browser Opera Mobile 9.7. Opera comes with turbo, which uses a compression algorithm to surf faster, and enjoy support for Ajax and Flash sites such as Facebook and YouTube.com. Best of all, it passes the Acid 3 test.

Motorola Evoke QA6

One of the most anticipated most was the Motorola Evoke QA6 are fully exposed, it is as "a social unit disposed charged" because of its full HTML browser, messaging and IM-style. It has a touch screen 2.8-inch touch-screen QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel camera and AGPS.

The Motorola OS is a customized version of Linux with the widget interface cumbersome. It comes with mobile widgets for MySpace, YouTube, Follow Me Quick Weather Picasa and Google, RSS Reader, Mobile, and USA Today. In addition, the QA4 the first phone that virtualization can run on multiple operating systems. This is done with the help of micro-hypervisor kernel Open Kernel Labs, is based on two integrated applications concurrently running operating systems. That means you can to a variant of Linux, if they so wish.

The Motorola Evoke QA4 should be available this year, but announced no pricing information.

Mozilla Fennec

Finally, Mozilla was on hand to demonstrate its new mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. The final version of Fennec, now simply as Firefox, numerous performance improvements like TraceMonkey JavaScript engine contains, in order to increase the speed of the rendering page. Plug-in support was also added to enable video playback on popular websites. Other features include download, password, and add-ons manager, Integrated web search and pop-up blocker.

The minimalist interface is designed to enter the height of the border, as we travel around the web through their imaginative use of technologies such as Smart Bookmarks Bar Integration and history, "tabbed browsing" is used, and miniatures. The second major objective of Firefox Mobile is on the interaction of the user tools to minimize the screen to devote the entire space of the display of Web content. User Tools to disappear on the page, but returning to the widescreen display. Firefox is now available for Maemo (the Nokia N810), Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Other Maemo platforms, Windows Mobile and Symbian versions will follow shortly.