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Nokia's E90 set for 3GSM release next week?
With the 3GSM World Congress just about to kick off next week in Barcelona, Nokia's machine is somehow allowing the beans to spill on the newest Nokia Communicator, dubbed the E90 (unofficially). This new Communicator will most likely be released next week and we'll be sure to see all the nasty info then. Until then, a lucky soul was granted a pass to play with the E90 recently and used these words to describe the experience: beautiful, short and thin, squarish, solid hinges, S60 third edition, HSDPA / EDGE / WiFi and black plastic. If that's not enough to whet your whistle, get over to the forum post at mobile-review.com and read all the excruciating details, minus any official photos for now. We're trying to score some nicer high-res pics of this thing -- anyone have any? To the right is the older 9500 -- which looks positively ancient.[Thanks, EC]
European mobile carriers plot against Google and Yahoo!
Apparently the Brits and other European wireless telco carriers want to drop the bomb on Yank mobile search engines like Yahoo! and Google -- so much that Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and, gasp, America's Cingular are plotting to try and supplant the mobile search services of Google and Yahoo! from their customer's handsets. You know you're performing more Google searches from your wireless 10-key than from your ultra-fast PC, right? Those Europeans are a tad more mobile-focused compared to us here across the pond, so it comes as no surprise really that the big European wireless carriers want to capture all those mobile searches using...their own search service. We're not quite sure how they'll index the mobile (and real) web for all those customers to compete with the years-ahead services from Google and Yahoo!, but we wish them well at 3GSM next week when they pitch this to, well, whoever will listen.
